Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Editorial. In publishing this the thirteenth volume of The Bonhomie we have no excuses to offer. We have done our best—angels can do no more. If you have any criticisms to offer, save them until we are gone, and then express them freely as we have done in the past. But while you are criticising, remember that this is partly your annual. You helped make it, or if you did not we take it for granted that you could not. If you could have done better than we, who have striven from early morning until dusky night, your criticism is just and we acknowledge it humbly. Otherwise we must insist that you accept what we have done without complaint. Remember that it is easier to criticise work than it is to do the work itself. This annual is meant to be a bond between us—something that will cause old memories to come trooping back when we are past the meridian of life. In after years, dear brother, when you see here the faces of your schoolmates and read their simple writings, let your heart drift back to old Furman and here on the campus and in the dormitories let us commune together again. In our imagination we will sing the old songs over, give the same old yells for the Varsity team, and with bared heads again listen to the teachings of our professors. We will grasp each other by the hand and with frank, friendly eyes give the same cheerful greeting that we have given in the days of yore. What would life be without memories? Our memories seem to smooth the wrinkles from our brow, and make the eyes which are glazed and dull clear and bright again. So let us cling to memories and be young always, and when the old bell is ringing for us upon the other shore we will meet each other with smiling faces and outstretched hands, and be united again. Purpose A Word to The Wise W. P. CARSON, Editor-in-chief. W. M. CRAIG, Business Manager.

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Dining Room

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A Faculty Conversation at Furman i By Dr. E. M. Poteat T TURNED upon the prospects for students next year. I he chairman of the committee on Grounds and Buildings, Prof. C. B. Martin, who has done so much to improve the general appearance of our premises and to whom the task of assigning rooms falls, has said: “What are we to do The topic was immediately taken up with interest all about the room, and we felt ourselves confronted with a serious embarrassment. The past three years we have rented residences off the campus: but it is possible that none of these will be within our reach at the opening of the session next September. The work of the alumni committee last summer made us familiar with the slogan—Four Hundred at Furman in 1914. This year the enrollment will probably go beyond 350, and students have been housed in all the available places in and near the campus. If we retain the usual proportion of the classes now in school and the Freshman class is as large as this year’s class, what arc we to do? Make down pallets and store them away somewhere in Montague Hall? Or have some big-minded, wise-hearted friend of Furman put up a new dormitory? This last suggestion, so it was remarked in the faculty meeting, would involve not less than $40,000, but there arc friends of the institution who could render this service. • I am giving only an echo here of the conversation referred to. I he faculty is ready to serve our constituency as fully as our facilities will allow, and we believe that the constituency will enlarge the facilities along with its enlarging demand of service by the institution. The two things must go together. We have to all appearances reached the limit under present conditions and our embarrassed question is—What more can we do? next fall?”