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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]
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man of quiet disposition, gentle manners, genial and courteous, though he lived out of sympathetic touch of the common moss of mankind, lie 'as a man of high character, profound learning and great intellectual ability. He was fond fo money, but not its slave. He was fonder of study and learning, and made his ample means serve both himself and many a grateful and indigent youth, lit; was fondest of power and a consummate master of diplomacy, lie knew human nature and the avenues to the human mind which stand open to a commanding presence, to superior knowledge and to persuasive logic; and where these were unavailing, his art of eliminating the opposition with the least friction appeared to the uninitiated as the very essence of artlessness. He reached a ripe old age and enjoyed both health and the homage customarily given to men of his rank, to the very last. The eulogies over his remains were heard by a large and reverent audience, and even the weather seemed to join in making his exit a scene of loveliness and of solemnity. His fidelity to Furman is rightly estimated, not by his failures as treasurer, nor by the introduction of a foreign policy, but by the fact that he always gave his best thought to the institution and made it richer in his last years by the sum total of $54,000, that is, $22,000 to the endowment, $15,000 to the Carnegie Library, $5,000 from his home place, $5,000 on the deficit in building the Alumni Hall, and some $7,000 bequeathed at his death. |14|
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