Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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 members of the student body and friends at large, to the present friends and supporters of Furman, to those who are to come after us in making Furman a greater Furman, we respectfully and gladly dedicate this Nineteen Hundred Thirty BONHOMIE ' lion was placed under the direct control of the Baptist State Convention, teas located at lidsetield. aid in memory of Dr. Carman teas named Turman Academy and Theological Institution: The founders intended that it should primarily give instruction to young ministers. hut also to other students tv ho Were not preparing for the ministry hut were desirous of oh-

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 Dedication 7 o the founders of Furman who worked so nobly and u?t selfishly to perpetuate the I ifeof the struggling Institution in its infancy, to those who have served with unselfish devotion during more than a hundred years of existence, on faculty, board of trustees, fo the larger institutions. Accordingly, in the year of l)r. Carman's death, the Baptists of the State founded their first educational institution under denominational control. It icas in its purpose and work the continuation of an idependent academy founded about tjty near Statesville by John M. Huberts but defunct when Carman was established. Che new institn-

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Foreword 'The purpose of the stuff of the Thirtieth Vo-lume of the BOX HO MIE hus been to record in permanent form the life of the students and the activities during the lyjy-JQ session. taining an education undo Christian auspices. hi tin- hope lluil it mi hi elicit the sympathy and support .1 Ci.-arjiia h'aptists. it was located near the (icochin line. It was opened for educational :c(irl: unitary ij, tSat l-.dnetield. hut after little more than a vear teas removed to a local ton near .Sumter, where it remained till . . -.alien it was closed. In tSjt the Stale