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(■o' ! $ 0,000, of which $ I .’ ,000 will he expended for furniture mid apparatus, will In......posed of apartments for classes in psychology. chemistry, physics and biology, and physical hd»oraiorios. It will also contain the Museum of Natural History. When the Science Hall shall have been erected and the propped improve meiits on the other buildings shall have I teen made, Kiirman I’niversitv will rank ahum with the foremost colleges of tin- S« nthland not only in modern (spiipui.'iit. luit also in educational standard. May the glorious day s m ii dawn when the priceless influence of this grand Hepnhlic ot Letters shall he felt throughout the nations of the world! Ml. 24
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In March two years later. Mr. Andrew Carnegie proposed to donate s | . .(10(1 for a Library Building, provided tliai a like sum ! ■ rais -«l as an endowment for ihe Library. The.........nditiou wa met l y the generous response of |),.cior .ludsoii. who created the ('has. II. .ludsou Kndowiuent Km id for the l.ihrary. On January I2. I1MI7. in his eitshty seventh year. Doctor Jtidsou passed over she Liver into the (iivai Beyond. lie had tacn eonneeted with the 1‘nivcrsity for fifty-six years, during whieh lime lie served as Krofessor. Treasurer, Art in” I‘resident and Dean. In ivcogniiioii of his eminence a a matheiiiatieian and teacher, a short time before his death he was ranted a I tension of one thousand d dlars per annum b the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Doctor d nelson. in his last will and testament, made the Library Kndowmeiii Fund residuary legau............... his estate, and it is exjH-eU-d that several thousaml dollars will in this way he added to the fund. During tin- session linn; I'.tuT the Library Building was erected at a cost of $2oJ i»0, Mr. Carnegie having added $4.00o io his original irii'l and other friends of the institution contributing a like sum. In the autumn of ItMut the (Jeneral Kdiieation lh»ard oi New ork proposed to eontrilmie $25,000 towards tin ereeiion ot a science hail at Kurman, provided that South ('aroliua Baptists wm!d. by January 1, 1010, contribute $25.uoo tor the satin purpose, and also add $25.ot)n ?.» tin pcrimm nt Kndow-uieni Fuinl of the Institution, making the total endowmeii' $200,ooo. A few months later, at the baptist Stale Convention in Spartanburg. the proposition of the (Icurral Kducation Hoard va accepted with inueli entlmsiasni. Levs. K. I . Faster!inji' and ( . L. String'ield were employed a iinanciai agents t » secure subscriptions to covet the necessary annmni. In the meantime. Mr. Andrew Carnegie donated $25,000 |o materially assist in creeling the - ; i • 11 -hall. However, at the State Baptist Convention held in Anderson, in Dceiniber, 1000. it was made known that the feat undertaking of 1000 would tail it $14,000 could not l»c raised before ilie first day of January. ThD would mean the lo s of the conditional sum promised by the (renerai Kdiieation Hoard of New York, and also the csmditioiial donation from Mr. Carnegie. Hut a concerted campaign was at once begun and before the midnight tails announced to the sleeping world the bird) «d the New Year, the victory was won. and the cherished dreams of South ( aroliua Baptist? wen coming to pass. 1 he victory assures tin immediate erection of the James (’. Furman Hall of Science, which lias been needed many years. The building which will 2.1
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