Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Spirits of the past who rule us from their urns and who invested 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 lie far off when individuals, some of whom are reading this article, will, of their own judgment as to wise investments and without solicitation put their thousands into Furman I ni-versity. Of all such we may be sure that generations to come will rise up and call them blessed. •Cook: Education in South Carolina, p. 20. •Cook: Op. Cit., pp. 34-35. Page Fourteen

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sidere l invidious to name these men, or others who from the earlier (lays by their achievements and general worth have added to the lustre of Furman's name. The class of 1856 gave to us Col. It. B. Watson, of Ridge Springs, S. C., the apostle of sunshine, and the pioneer peach grower of South Carolina; Jas. X. Nash, attorney and teacher, of Atlanta, (la.; and W. 11. 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, Clemson College, the State Normal School of Washington, Mercer University (including a president), Judson College (a president), Baylor University, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Probably the most famous 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 the 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 they occupy they represent Harvard, Yale, 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 he seen that these men are fully competent to maintain the standards set by Furman, Judson, Reynolds, and Edwards. The Arts degrees offered by Furman University today are 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 a 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 arc forever linked with Furman University. These great Page Thirtren

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