Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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before bis death, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching granted him a pension of one thousand dollars per annum. In his last will and testament. Dr. Judson made the Library Endowment Fund residuary legatee of bis estate, and it is expected that several thousand dollars will thus be added to the fund. 'Flic Library Building was erected in 1906-07, at a cost of $23,000, Mr. Carnegie having added $1,000 to his original grant and other friends contributing a like sum.

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Sun-matt atii) Sr. Sutismt QliOF. CHARLES IIALLKTTE JUDSON was added to the Faculty of the 'l'hcological Institution at the close of’ 1851 just as it was becoming Furman University. He was in his 81st year and brought with him his youthful energy and interest in the new enterprise. He made himself useful in arranging the curriculum, purchasing apparatus, and in erecting the new buildings. Five years later he was made treasurer, and in this capacity his influence was felt for many years more than as a teacher. Before and during the war his energetic prosecution of his duties secured the repeated thanks of the trustees. In 1864, he resigned his chair in Furman and became the head of the F’emale College, and remained in that position till 1869, when he resumed his former duties. 'File effort to raise $200,000 soon followed. Others did the traveling to the associations during the first two years, hit after the general agent resigned, Prof. .Judson had full charge of the work and directed it with vigor throughout the State. He shared along with others the disappointment and the personal unpopularity which were left as the chief residue of the great failure. Dr. Furman was now retired from the presidency, and Prof. .Judson began to exercise unquestioned supremacy in the school circles. After reorganization, in 1881. with Dr. Manly as president, the school grew out of the tempestuous period, further complicated by the removal of a pastor and of a president, and put on new life. l)r. R. II. Griffith was called in to supplement Dr. Manly’s collections and add some $50,000 to the endowment. 'The last decade of flu century was an unfortunate one for Furman. 'Flic endowment shrunk to $88,000, moneyed men were alienated and a general demoralization, the natural concomitant cf coterie rule, spread more or less in all ranks. Accordingly Dr. .Judson resigned the treasurership in 1895, and two years later the accumulating unrest was marked by the resignation and vicarious suffering of Dr. Manly. Dr. .Judson continued as teacher during Dr. Montague’s administration, and acted at its close as president pro tern, for one year. After that time his connection was nominal until his death during the present session. He was a [13]