Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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they occupy they represent Harvard. Vale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Colby. University of Chicago. University of Pennsylvania. University of Virginia, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in this country; and Cambridge (England), Paris (France), Leipzig and Berlin (Germany), abroad. It will be seen that these men are fully competent to maintain the standards set bv Furman, Judson, Reynolds, and Edwards. The Arts degrees offered by Furman University today arc standard and represent a sound liberal education. A CALL AND A CHALLENGE. The facts here brought together constitute a call and a challenge. The South Carolina Baptist State Convention has here a great enterprise on its hands, a great and growing and quite incalculably useful enterprise of fundamental and essential importance to the progress of our people. It enshrines as no other enterprise does or can ever do the traditions and spirit of our history in this State; the great names of that history are forever linked with Furman University. These great Spirits of the past who rule us from their urns and who invested here their love and prayers and gifts invite us of the present generation to join them in their service of all coming generations by like investments of love and prayers and gifts. A prosperity such as they never saw has dawned upon us; resources beyond their dreams are at our command. And they challenge us to do with our means as well as they did with theirs. Men and women of South Carolina who love Christ and their fellows can win no surer title to the gratitude and veneration of coming generations than by linking their names with Furman University, and joining hands to make the University what the opening future demands. As compared with such a use of our resources, the building of private fortunes is despicable indeed, which, as Mr. Andrew Carnegie has lately said, “ministers not to any taste worthy of man . Surely the time cannot be far ofT when individuals, some of whom arc reading this article, will, of their own judgment ns to wise investments and without solicitation put their thousands into Furman University. Of all such we may be sure that generations to come will rise up and call them blessed.

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the loans to hear interest from the date of their graduation. In this way a considerable capital could he invested in the best of securities, viz., manhood. A sum of .$20,000 could he administered by the Faculty in this way in the very noblest service of the Kingdom of Christ SOME DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI. This extended enlargement of the material equipment does not necessarily ensure better work than was done in the earlier days. A glance at the list of the Alumni will show that from the beginning Furman University has maintained an exalted ideal of scholarship. The very first class to graduate gave to Southern Haptists their veteran hero missionary. Rev. J. B. Hartwell, and to the South Carolina brotherhood the incomparable John CL Williams. It will not be considered invidious to name these men. or others who from the earlier days by their achievements and general worth have added to the luster of Furman's name. The class of 1856 gave to us Col. R. B. Watson, of Ridge Springs. S. C., the apostle of sunshine, and the pioneer peach grower of South Carolina; Jas. N. Nash, attorney and teacher, of Atlanta, Gn., and V. II. Perry, who represented his district in Congress. Space will not allow us to comment upon the classes year by year, but it will be news to many among us to know that Furman University has furnished professors to Cornell, Rutgers, Chicago University, Johns Hopkins University. Richmond College, Wake Forest College, Clcmson College, the State Normal School of Washington, Mercer University (including a president), Judson College (a president), Howard College, Liberty College (a president), Baylor University, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Probably the foremost Sanskrit scholar is an alumnus of Furman University—Maurice Bloomfield of Johns Hopkins University; while another alumnus, John M. Manly, of Chicago University stands at the head of English scholarship in the United States. Editors, lawyers, physicians, missionaries, teachers, preachers, legislators, civil engineers, merchants, and planters the time would fail us to appraise the value of the contribution in manhood which Furman University has made to the good of the State, the nation, and the world. THE PRESENT DAY OBLIGATION. The splendid record of the past enjoins upon us, as no mere exhortation could do. the obligation of maintaining in tin enlarged Furman of today the ideals and the spirit of the earlier years. Who are the men upon whom this responsibility rests? The present Faculty of course; and we wish we could introduce these men one by one to all our people. In their special training for the positions which

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From Mount Mitchell, North Carolina From the land o' the sky where the world is high Vncl each peak wears its night-cap cloud; Where the dead old day has been laid away With a moonlit sky for a shroud; Where the haisam air works a cure that’s rare And the crisp o' the wind is balm; Where the heaven's own blue makes a saint o' you And the roar o’ the storm is ealin; Where the dew is damp on your shivering camp And the ferns and the moss are pearled; From the land o’ the sky where the hills ride high I salute—from the top o' the world. E. M. Potkat, Jit.