Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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in its initiation of indomitable purpose, a type of mind admirably fitted for a great construction engineer, if be had not chosen rather to become a great Latin scholar. Very ably did Dr. Montague begin the great building regime of which we now see so brilliant a climax. In 1903 Dr. E. M. Poteat became president. If our faith is to be strengthened by the realization that Providence has had great influence in the choice of Furman’s presidents. it receives further inspiration here. With a great and brilliant scholar at the helm, old Furman made wonderful progress. Himself irked by the petty details of administrative routine. Dr. Poteat gave his faculty opportunity to exercise and grow. His own brilliant scholarship gave every encouragement to erudition, and Furman quickly assumed a place calculated to set the pace in South Carolina educational circles. To this administration belongs the adequate and woefully necessary strengthening of institution finance. I o his determination and large influence among liberal contributors belongs much of the credit. He himself deeply religious, there seemed to come upon Furman a revival of the days of the Furmans. His old students will never forget his chapel talks, their powerful grip, their inspiration, their affection. No history of Furman, however brief, can adequately portray the atmosphere and inspiration, the will to success and progress, the undercurrent of love and affection, all of which make Furman a tender spot in the memory of a Furman man, that docs not give special space to Dr. Charles H. Judson. It is quite safe to say that, having come in contact with more students during his long professorship of fifty-five years, his sweetness of character and splendid genius will never be forgotten. To many in this generation of men Furman and Judson are almost synonymous. The interim of 1918-1919 was admirably administered by Dr. S. E. Bradshaw, our professor of Modern Languages since 1904. Of the brilliant beginning of the most promising period in the history of Furman under the fine leadership of our new president. Dr. W. J. McGlothlin. we shall not write. The old State and its Baptists’ hosts are expecting much, and with the loyal support of heart and dollar that they are giving us. they shall not be disappointed. James Leland Vass. Page eighteen

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THE BONHOMIE, 1920 f 9 PRESIDENT W. J. McG LOTH LIN, M.A., PH.D., D.D., LL.D. Page tarenly