Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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HttUtprfitty QJalmtiiar ianr Opening Day of Winter Term........................ Day of Prayer for Colleges........................ SccoihI Installment of College Fees Due........... Lost Day on which Senior Essays may be handed in.. Spring Examinations .............................. Opening Day of Spring Term........................ Field Day ........................................ Annual Picnic .................................... Final Examinations ............................... COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ........................... SUMMER VACATION Examinations for Entrance into Freshman Class..... OPENING DAY OF FALL TEHM, 1907-8.................. Thanksgiving Day ................................. Fall Examinations ................................ Christmas Recess ................................. ...January 2 ..January 21 . February 1 .... .March March 21-30 ....April I ....April 13 .....May I ..May 21-31 ..JUNE !-.» ......September 17-IS ....SEPTEMBER 19 ........Noveml er 28 .......December 12-20 December 21-January 2 1908 Opening Day of Winter Term................................................January 3 Day of Prayer for Colleges...............................................lanuarv 23 Second Installment of College Fees Due......................................Fehrarv 1 Last Day on which Senior Essays may lie handed in.............................March 3 Spring Examinations ..........................................................March 20-28 Opening Day of Spring Term.................................................March 30 Field Day .................................................................April 18 Annual Picnic................................................................... 2 Final Examinations .............................................................Mav 22-29 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES .............................................MAY 30-JI NE 3 Opening Day of Fall Term. 1908-9.......................................September 1?

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iijisturiral B’krtrlt OI:HING the first quarter of the last century, the Baptists of South Carolina sent some of their ministerial students to the Academy on the High Hills of Santee, where the principal. I)r. J. M. Roberts, received a part, if not all, of them free of tuition. In 1827 the Baptist State Convention opened “The Furman Academy and Theological Institution” at Edgefield, buildings and land having been conditionally offered by the citizens of the village. The magnetic influence of Basil Manly, Sr., then a young man and pastor of the village church, and a desire on the part of the Convention to secure the co-operation of Georgia Baptists, caused the school to be located not far from the Savannah river. After an experiment of less than two years, with Dr. Joseph Warne as principal, the Convention decided to abandon the classical department, surrender the property to the donors and remove the beneficiaries to the High Hills of Santee, in Sumter County. As the school grew. Prof. Samuel Furman was added to the teaching force. The last four years at the High Hills, 1880-1884, was the period when it was attempted to support the school by means of scholarships. A suspension of two years, 1885-1886, followed the failure of this method of supporting the Faculty. Efforts were resumed on the first Monday in February. 1837, when a Manual Labor Classical School was opened near Winnsborough, under the principalship of Prof. W. E. Bailey, but its bright prospects began to wane in the following May, when the building was burned. In 1838 the Theological Department was resumed under Dr. V. Hooper as president. I)r. J. L. Reynolds succeeded him in 1840, and in 18453 Rev. J. S. Mims became junior professor and teacher of systematic theology. Dr. J. C. Furman succeeded Dr. Reynolds in 1844. and Rev. Peter C. Edwards was made teacher of Hebrew and Biblical exegesis the following year. 'This celebrated trio were hardly in their chairs before a removal to Greenville and the enlargement of the school began to he a general topic. In 1848. Dr. Furman was released from the duties of the school room, and with the help of others was successful in raising $70,000 for Furman Cniversity, to he located in Greenville. In 1851 this transfer was made, and the Academy and [9J