Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Officers of Board of Trustees and Executive Committee J. J. Lawton. President B. E. Geer. Treasurer HarUvillc. S. C. Greenville. S. C. H. P. McGee. Chairman of Executive Committee Greenville. S. C. (21) A. G. Furman, Secretary Greenville. S. C.

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 five years the Alumni Hall, the old Fitting School building, and the Montague Hall were built, at a cost of $22,000, $3,000 and $12,000, respectively. Dr. E. M. Potcat succeeded Dr. Montague in November, 1903. In the same year, under the agency of Rev. Joel I. Allen, subscriptions to the amount of $125,000 were secured for endowment. In March, 1905, Mr. Andrew Carnegie proposed to give $15,000 for a library building, on condition that $15,000 be raised as an endowment for the library. This condition was met by Dr. Judson, who created the Charles H. Judson Endowment Fund for the library. Dr. Judson died January 12, 1907, in his eighty-seventh year, after having served the University in various capacities—Professor, Treasurer, Acting President,Dean—for fifty-six years. In recognition of his eminence as a mathematician and teacher, shortly the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of ’Teaching granted him a pension of one thousand dollars per annum. In his last will and testament Dr. Judson made the Library Endowment Fund residuary legatee of his estate, and it is expected that several thousand dollars will thus be added to the fund. The library building was erected in 1906-07, at a cost of $23,000, Mr. Carnegie having added $4,000 to his original grant, and other friends contributing a like sum. In December, 1907, the South C arolina Baptist State Convention at Orangeburg projected a campaign for the erection of a new building, to be known as the James C. Furman Hall of Science.” At the end of the year 1908, subscriptions were in hand amounting to $50,000 for this purpose, $25,000 of which was subscribed by Andrew Carnegie. Also in 1908 a commodious dormitory was built for the Fitting School. On December 31, 1909, largely through the efforts of Rev. E. P. Easterling. Financial Agent, all the conditions named above in reference to the James C. Furman Hall of Science were met. The work of erecting the new building was begun in the year 1910, and it was formally opened with appropriate exercises on January 18, 1912. At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, June 4, 191 I, it was resolved to add $100,000 to the general endowment at the earliest possible date. In October following the General Education Board of New York voted a grant of $25,000 of the proposed $100,000, on condition that $75,000 be raised by July 31, 1914. At the December, 1911, meeting of the Board. Rev. Dr. M. V. McDuffie was elected Field Secretary and put in charge of this undertaking. (20)

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Edwin McNeil Poteat, D.D., LL.D. President and Professor of Christianity B.A.. Wake Forest. 1881; Full Graduate. Southern Baptist Theoloftleal Seminary, 1885; Instructor in Greek amt Latin, Wake Forest, 1886: Graduate Student. Johns Hopkins University. ISS6-1SKS: Pastor Calvary Baptist Church and Lecture Course In Yale, Xew Haven. Conn.. 1S88-1S98; B.U.. Wake Forest. 1SJM; Pastor Memorial Baptist Church. Philadelphia. Penn.. 1S98-1303; T.L.D., South Carolina University. I! 0 : President of Furman University since November. 1503. (22)