Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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THE BONHOMIE, 1920 q- ■ Senior Class Poem It is with jidnws and with anguish 1 hat wc close our college life. And, advancing with ambition. Step into the real world strife. For there's a time when we as students Come to that eventful day. When at graduation season Sadly lay our books away. Not that we arc to forget them. Nor our friends to leave behind. But that wc arc just beginning Our abilities to find. And with new determination. With the past to lead us on. We will seek the higher levels Than wc now have ever known. There is a ta:k for him that wants it. There’s reward for him that works; But there’s also condemnation For him who duty shirks. Will wc fail to take adantage Of our work that is our task? No, we'll not; we’ll do our duty. Thus fulfilling all that's ask'd. So then, my comrades of Class 20. Wc will take our place with men. And with courage, faith, and power Labor hard until the end. Then when shadows of life’s evening Come to meet the night of rest. We will go to sleep to waken In God's heaven to be blest. P°gc itocnly-tcvcn

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THE BONHOMIE, 1920 Senior History UR chapter in the history of our Alma Mater is completed, and although it may not he held aloft as a guiding standard to the classes that follow, nevertheless it is to us a fond realization of college life, filled with events and incidents that should prove worthy memories when we are plodding towards our goal in the years to come. The classmates we have known, the friendships we have formed, and the accomplishments that we have achieved should in a great measure prove an initiating prompitude for our future attempts, whether they succeed or fail. Though our number has been depleted through the development of many and various unavoidable circumstances, we still maintain that fraternal and co-operative spirit that came to us at the beginning; and although our achievements as individuals and a class arc to be critiscd in many instances, we believe we are due a p:rtion of the credit that has fallen to our Alma Mater during the past four years. As a class of scholars we do not boast, but there are individuals among us who have won fame for themselves and the class as well, and we bank our expectations that in the future their attainments will be of such nature as will insure their high standing in the rank of the future scholarship. In the line of athletic activities, however, we believe we have contributed our share of athletes, and in order that we might give the reader a conception of their quality, we would like to print below a record of what they have done towards developing winning athletic teams. Space will not allow this, and we fear we are saying too little when we claim that the Class of 1920 has done its part in Furman’s athletics. In the great game that has just been won across the Atlantic we were well represented, and wc are sure these men fulfilled their mission in the struggle for humanity. We arc proud of them and congratulate the class that is fortunate enough in enrolling them among its numbers. And now wc must leave these walls that have faithfully cared for us during four short sessions, dealing with us patiently and tirelessly, anxiously desirous that we might leave better equipped for life’s work than when wc came. To us is thrown open the road that leads into the field of future realizations. How we shall handle the problems that come before us. how we will remove the confronting obstacles, and how we will clear away the difficulties that would serve to throw us back, is yet to be seen. The hardships that we will encounter, and the manner in which wc deal with them, will prove our real worth, and our success will in a large measure be determined by the contributions the old school has given us. As Seniors we begin to realize how much is yet to be learned. We go forth to the strife equipped with the weapons secured from the class rooms, eager for the chance to prove our worth. What we have contributed to our Alma Mater could not compensate for that which she has contributed to us, but we believe the difference is sufficiently made up in our love and loyalty for her. Page lvenl] -iix

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Senior Class Officers 1. A. T. O'Deli....................President 2. J. L. RhaME.................Pice-President 3. J. B. McCravky...................Secretary 4. W. W. Edwards....................Treasurer 5. E. A. Williams...................Historian 6. A. E. Power........................Prophet 7. E. D. McKnicht........................Poet Page twenty-eight