Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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JUUSON A I. DIM MAI.

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Sketch of Furman. Furman University is now fully girded for its race through the second half century of its existence. With its background of historic worth and foundations laid in persona! sacrifices by men morally as strong as Atlas, its future can reasonably be expected to extend through one or more milleniums. But the times have changed and the problems to be solved relate not more to finance than to morality. It is hardly possible in these days when the demand for money is so imperious that professors should live like raior-'oicks. or that students should spend their college days in hunger and in seediness. The well-to-do people in the State have beon wonderfully multiplied in number and they aro no longer satisfied with anything short of the best. Fortunately these new and better conditions are at work to furnish a more abun-ant endowment and other necessary paraphernalia. Over $50,000 in cash of the recent pledges has been realized, which is both a present help and a pledge of the redemption of the remainder when they become due. The solidarity of the denomination in support of the school was never more conspicuous, and in this auspicious day of sectional amity our present President is easily the man best adapted to tap successfully ar.d turn in this direction pent-up streams of benefaction which cannot find nearer home as promising fields for irrigation. It is with special pleasure that one can mention the immediate realization of a beautiful literary building to be presented by Mr. Carnegie and an endowment of the same by an as yet unknown citizen of the State. It means the addition of some $50,000 to the value of the plant and an annual increase in the number and value of the books in the library, a vast improvement in the Implements for both teachers and studonts. The point has not yet been reached when all concern for the finances may come to an end. but the mere matter of continuity of cxistcr.co is no longer paramount. It is rather the question of well-being, welldoing and how best to deserve the good things the future has in store. In the traditional policy of the school, the Trustees entrust the internal management of the school to the faculty, the faculty try to unite the minimum exercise authority with the rninimum liberty of the studont.on the supposition that the young men who come to Furman are young gentlemen and in the belief that such administration of affairs evokes and stimulates what is noblest in men. And on the part of the stu-ent body there has been a generous response to this trust in their manliness, either as a body or major part of it. This was especially noticeable In the struggling years. A mere handful of young mon attended who learned to place a high value upon time and opportunity. They went out in succession and aftor two decades they began to send back to the long left classic walks their sons and their neighbor's sons. In the (. meantime the people of the State were rising out of the ashes of the Shermanic conflagration and adju9t- L