Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR. 1927-'28 Another college year is drawing to a close and the editor-in-chief asks for a resume of its achievements. The enrollment has reached 3 27. distributed as follows: Freshmen ..... . ... ......... ... 182 Sophomores ............ 120 Juniors . 90 Seniors 99 Law Students .................. . 18 Special Students .............. . 1 | Extension Students ................ In addition. 30 correspondence students have been enrolled. The classroom work has been particularly successful. The quality credits system requiring that a certain clearly defined standard of quality as well as of quantity be attained for graduation is proving decidedly stimulating and in the judgment of the Faculty is already justifying itself. More students are passing their work and passing with higher grades than in previous years. Require ments for entrance are being rigidly enforced and a better type of student is entering college. Strict entrance requirements and high standards for graduation arc steadily raising the quality of work done in Furman University. Student activities have been gratifyingly successful. The Glee Club has again won the State and Southern championships and for the third year has represented the South in the national contest in New York City. Radio fans all over the country heard the club on Saturday night. March 10. in this con test. The football and basketball teams were state champions, and at this writing the baseball team promises to wage a vigorous battle for state honors. The departmental clubs have been very active and have contributed in an important way to the cultural life of the university. A national honorarv science fraternity. Chi Beta Phi. has granted a chapter to Furman, open to students in all the science departments. The Y. M. C. A. has been active, and excellent results have been accomplished. The annual revival meeting, led this session by Dr. T. I.. Holcomb of Texas, was a blessing to students and faculty. The Judson Memorial Baraca Class and the Cooperative Class of the First Baptist Church Sunday School have been well attended and have deepened the spiritual life of the stu dents. Other classes in other Sunday schools have been the means of helping the men in their religious life. The University community has been particularly fortunate in having an unusually large number of missionaries to make addresses in chapel during the year. The review of the year 1926-1927 ended with a reference to the Alumni Campaign inaugurated six years ago with the purpose of adding $500,000 to the endowment of the University. The original campaign period ended April 30. 1927. but the General Education Board, which had promised $175,000 if the University would raise $325,000. granted an extension of time to April 30. 1928. Only a few thousand dollars remain to be raised and efforts are being pushed to bring the campaign to a successful conclusion. R. N. Daniel. Dean. Page TlOrntg-seccn

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 Page Twenty-six Mr. a. G. Taylor Hus:nes$ Manager and Treasurer ADMINISTRATION Miss Winnierhd Brunson Secretary to Dr. XIcGlothlin Mrs. IRENE S. Howard Secretary to Dean Miss Byrdie Kelley Bookkeeper Miss Mary Kelley Bookkeeper Miss EOline Wheeler. R. N. Nurse Miss Beulah Berry Secretary to Business Manager V

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 SHORT HISTORY OF GREENVILLE ABOUT one hundred and fifty years ago Greenville County, after a year's war with the Indians, was ceded to the State of South Carolina. This section, known as Greenville District, had previously been the hunting ground of the Cherokee Nation, and was only slowly settled by white men. First hunters, then traders made their way into the new land, then following in the wake of these came the permanent settlers. One of the first settlers. Richard Paris, in 1776 built a corn mill on the falls of Reedy River, just opposite the site of the present Camperdown Cotton Mills. The number of inhabitants increased, and soon the name Pleasantburg was given to the little settlement. Plans were drawn up for a town in the middle of which was to be located the court house, and down one of the side streets of which was to be a gaol, as the jail house was at that time called. The original plat called for four blocks on the east side and four blocks on the west side of a street leading from the river to the head of the avenue. The head of the avenue is the place where Washington street now intersects Main. Most of the land was then owned by Lemuel J. Alston. He put on sale the newly-surveyed lots of Pleasantburg. but they went slowly. The first one. an acre in size, sold for $100. Soon Mr. Alston sold his entire holdings to Vardry McBee of Lincolnton. N. C. Shortly before then the name of the little town had been changed from Pleasantburg to Greenville, and though the origin of the name is uncertain it is probably derived from the name of the Revolutionary leader. General Nathaniel Greene. For a few years around 1851 Greenville flourished as a summer resort. The following years saw the establishment of Greenville Female College: the gradual growth of the town: the erection of the more influential churches: the early popularity of Chick's Springs: and in 1852 the establishment here of Furman University. The newspapers of Greenville have been important factors in the growth of the place. The oldest was The Mountaineer, which for years was owned and edited by Col. James A. Hoyt. There were also the Daily Nett , later becoming the Greenville Neics: and the Evening Herald. which became The Piedmont. The Southern Railroad coming in 1872. and Laurens Railroad in 1882. brought im portant advantages to Greenville, then beginning about 1894 began the growth of textile industries which has given the city of Greenville the right to .all itself the Textile Center of the South. Turning from the history of Greenville, it would be interesting to consider a few up-to-date facts relative to the city and surrounding sections. There arc in the county twenty-five textile establishments manufacturing annually products valued at S40.000.000. In addition the largest dyeing and finishing plant in the South, and the only bleaching plant which handles fancy silk and cotton mixed goods for the trade are located here. J. F. Sirrine id Company, nationally known engineers, has its home in Greenville The chief money crop of the county is cotton, and the staple is cultivated here as a rule free :rom the ravages of the boll weevil. In recent years strides have been made in fruit growing, particularly along the slopes of Paris Mountain. and the livestock industry is proving increasingly profitable. With the exception of Memphis and New Orleans. Greenville is the largest inland cotton center cast of the Mississippi River. The banking resources of the city total more than $25,000,000. The public school enrollment of Greenville proper and suburbs is over 10.000. The Public Library ministering to the reading needs of Greater Greenville has an annual circulation of over 200.000 volumes, and represents the last word in efficient management. Greenville, with an altitude of 1.040 feet, lies four and one-half miles from Paris Mountain with an altitude of 2.054 feet, while about thirty miles from the city and touching the northern edge of the county are the ranges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Fxccllent highways lead from the Textile Center to the Land of the Sky.' Page Tiventy-eight