Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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FTthc bonhqmibT The Furman Council OFFICERS I’reside ut Secretary h c. row . NV. D. Nixon EXECUTIVE COM M ITT EE J. C. Pow..............................W. P. Martin C. H. Tinsley Allen, J. R. Askins. P. T. Crow. E. R. Drake, H. R. Farmer, R. A. Gambkkll, B. P. Henderson, E. IT. MEMBERS. King, H. II. Martin, W. P. Mobley. F. B. Mobley, M. R. Nelson. G. O. Nixon, W. I). Patton, M. G. Wrenn, J. N. Payne. D. V. Pickens, A. L. Pow, J. C. Simpson. V. B. Sims, C. F. Tinsley, C. 11. Watts. J. W.

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HTTtH Er BONHQM l£T% The Furman Council FRIIAPS the most significant piece of administrative reform advocated and carried out in the administration of President Poteat was the organization of the Furman Council in September, 1913. For years our President lnus been studying the various systems of student government in the larger universities and his ideas on this question have found full expression in the now firmly established Furman Council. The Council is a representative laxly of students who have practically the entire reins of government in their hands. All its members except one are elected by the students indirectly, for it has been decided that those students holding certain oflices of honor shall, ui o» being elected to these offices, l»ecome therewith memheis of the Council. This provision insures the Council’s being composed of those men who are leaders in tin school and have the esteem of their fellow-students. The Council is thus representative of the student body, and its actions are in reality the actions of the student community in a self-governing capacity. Those oflices which carry with them the honor of membership in the Council—for it is an honor—are the following: The Presidents of the Literary Societies, the Presidents and the Secretaries of the four classes, the Managers of the various athletic teams, the Kditors-in-Chief of The Bonhomie and Furman Echo, and the President of the Mess, the latter being the only member appointed bv the Faculty, and so far he has always held some other office to which the students have elected him and which would entitle him to a seat in the Council without the Presidency of the Mess. The jurisdiction and special duties of the Council were largely fixed by the circumstances which gave birth to it. At the December meeting of the Board of Trustees in Abbeville, 1912, the student body, through a committee, presented a petition asking the Trustees to re-establish inter-collegiate football iit Furman, football having been abolished some eleven years before by action of the Board of Trustees. The petition was granted and at a later meeting of the Board in June, 1913, when the subject came up for further discussion, Mr. II. J. Haynsworth moved the following: “Resolved, That the privilege of inter-collegiate football at Furman, voted at the December meeting of the Board of Trustees of Furman I niversitv, in 1912, will Ik continued at the discretion of the Board and on condition that the students themselves suppress and prevent hazing in all its forms.” On the afternoon of September 17, 1913, President Poteat presented this resolution to the members of the three upper classes and the conditions under which football was to be continued were accepted by unanimous rising vote.