Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Ifiantltg EDWIN McNEIL POT RAT, I).!).. I.L.D. President and Professor of Biblical Literature and Christian Ethics • IIAltVKY TOI IVHit COOK, M.A.. I.itt.I). Professor of Creek Language and Literature WILLI AM !•’It AN’KLIN W ATSON. M.A. Professor of chemistry-. Biology and Physics MARSHALL DKI.IMI EARLE, M.A.. M.M.P. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy BEXXETTB EUGENE OKK1L M.A., M.M.P. Professor of English Language and Literature SIDXKY ERNEST BRADSHAW, M.A., Pn.l). Professor of Modern Languages WARREN MERRILL STEELE. M.A. (Yule) Professor of Philosophy and Political Science COLUMBUS BEN MARTIN. M.A Professor of Latin 11! DEN TOY COX. B.A. Assistant Professor of English and Mathematics CHARLES VERNON STAN SELL, B.A. Assistant Professor of Latin EDWIN L. HUGHES Lecturer on Pedagogy [«J

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Dr. Jlatrat 1)k. Potbat was lx»rn in Caswell County, North Carolina, February 6, 1861. Ifc attended the village school at Yanccyvillc, X. ( . From there lie went to Wake Forest College, remaining there from 1876 to 1881. He was elected debater, representing the Kuzelian Society at the anniversary February 14, 1881. He took the degree of A.B. in June, 1881. Dr. Poteat attended the Southern Baptist 'rheological Seminary from 1881 to 188.5; was librarian there 1884-1885; took degree of “full graduate. After that he was elected Assistant Professor of Latin in Wake Forest College. Dr. Poteat has pursued the following post-graduate courses: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1888-1888, graduate student in Philosophy ami Psychology; University of Berlin, 1888; Yale University, Course of Lectures, 1888-1898. l)r. Poteat has had the honorary degree of D.D.. Wake Forest College, 1894, and LL.D., University of South Carolina, 1906, conferred upon him. Before entering upon the presidency of Furman University, November 1, 1908, he was pastor of Memorial Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa., from 1898 to 1908. Before that time he served the Calvary Baptist Church, of New Haven, Conn., as pastor, 1888-1898, and Lee Street Baptist Church, Baltimore, Md., 1887-1888. Dr. Poteat married Harriet Hale, eldest child of Rev. Dr. A. J. Gordon, pastor Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, Mass., Octolnr 24, 1889. Dr. Gordon is widely known and greatly useful in his l ooks: “In Christ,” “The Two-Fold Life,” “The Ministry of the Spirit. “How Christ Came to Church,” etc. 114]