Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Response to Dedication “311 scrdice ranks tl)t same tuitl) Ood;” net it is pleasant to pane a tuorO of appreciation from one's fellolmluorkers. 3n0 3) Deg to assure tpe Staff of CPe 'Bonpomie of mp grateful acknoUiIeDgment of tpeir esteem, ano to strike pan os Uiitp tpem in a pledge of perpetual loyalty to Jrtirtuan. Coin in ( 3. l otcat.

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Edwin McNeil Poteat El wi MrXKIL PoTHAT was born February r». |m;i. in l a swell i „r,h ( urolina. 11 is early educat ion was received in tlu- village s Ji«m»J ;«t Yaiiceyville, X. C. Thenee lie went to Wake Fore ! College, graduatin'; from that institution with the degree of 15. A. in ixsl. II.- attended li - X .11 • h rn I :ij.iis» I heoJogienl Seminary. Louisville. Ivy., and reeeived (1k- • Graduate. lie has pursued post-graduate courses in the following institutions: .l.duis l|o,,kin . Yale l uiveisity. and the Fniversiry ••t I -rlin. Li ! -!l ihe authorities ••{’ Wake Forest ’..liege conferred noon Duet or Foteat the honorary degree of Doctor „f Divinity, and twelve years later he ii ’In I.!.. D. degree at »li«• hands of tli« authorities of tile I'ltiversitv of •s‘' Utli ( 'urolina. I or a mimiter of year he -m rved the denomination as a preacher of the (ioSjn-1, Uiug successively pas!„r (tf A,. S:m-f Baptist Church, Baltimore, Md.: .d ar Baptist ( hureli. New Haven. Conn.: .Memorial Baptist (’linreh. Philadelphia, Fa. I i« mi hisehimdi in I liiiadelphia he was railed to ihe presidency of Furman I'niversify, entering upon the work here on November I. B'n I. During the past six years of his Work as the President of Furman Fniversity he I,as administered the affair of ,|„ in rinri-.u with taut and skill- Buder bis admini :ration .he Fniversiry |,» established upon a secure financial !»a i . has uitderg.... rapid material growth, and U n elevated to „ higher standard • morality. s

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(Srertiug flic alumni, farultg. stubruts nf Furman: to I ihr Intjal frieubs of the institution. uiherrurr anb uilfururr Ihrif man lir. anb In the mnulirrr. nf the brunmiuattnu upon which sbr is brprub-cut fnr support. hie tcubrr thiahwrb uf rnrbial grrrting. At the feet nf these hie lag this book, trusting that its faults. houtrhrr glaring, mag br uirhieb uittl? leuiruru. anb that luhatrhrr merits it man possess mag he sought nub renbilg biscouereb. We seub this proburt nf our laborious effort nu its mag. Until the hope that it mag rnustitute get another link in thr chain which hiubs us together in loyal beuotiou to the Alma Water.