Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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MATTHEW ARNOLD said of Sophocles that he taw lift iteadily and saw it uhole. It it altogether pouihlt to see a unfit segment of truth steadily and yet to nnu thr significance of that segment in t Hat ion to thr mtirr circle. Thr result is narrowness and, all too frecfuently, indifference to thr claims of other aspects of truth. To ut life whole is to order in our thinking all thr parts so that each assumes its relative importance. The result it a harmonious concept of Me which fives balance and proportion to our judgments and beauty to our deeds. Sophocles looked so steadily upon particular instances of suffering that hr might have lost hit smu of proportion and become a pessimist, instead he saw entering in its relationship to the potential dignity of the human spirit, and Wt turn from his tragedies with renewed conidence in the high possibilities of humankind. My with for the young men and the young women of the Clou of 19)9 is that through Christian faith and self discipline they may learn to set life steadily and tee it whole, and so to become masters of life. R. N. Daniel. A WORD FROM THE DEAN Robert Norman Daniel. B.A.. M.A.. Ph.M. Dean of Furman University and Acting President September I. 1918 until January I, 19)9

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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE John Laney Plyler, B.A.. LL.B. President of Furman University John Laney Pi.yi.er, «iw Justice of GnmviUt County, auumed th pr cadency of Furman University January I. I9J9. Judge Plyler, tvbo was graduated from Furman in IVI) and then attended the Harvard School of Ijiw, became successor to former President ft. E. Geer, whose resignation wui tendered in May, 1938 As I take over the helm of this beloved old institution. I welcome the opportunity to express my appreciation of the splendid cooperation assured me by the faculty, students, and alumni. Not the least of the agencies for betterment of our college community is THE BONHOMIE, ft holds us more closely together now. and ties us to our Alma Mater more securely as the years pass. I salute the Furman University student body at the beginning of what I believe to be the realization of a greater and grander Furman. John L. Plyler. President. BOnHOmiE

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. I DEAN Virginia Thomas, M.A., Dean of the Woman's College BEAUTY is relative to traditions and training cannot be conceived in isolation from them. The locus of beauty, however, is not only in the environment but in the mind which adds the gleam, the light that never was on sea or land. My wish is that you may carry from this place a mind so made sensitive that you may understand truth and create beauty wherever you go. Virginia Thomas, Dean. THE BOnHOITlIE Page 16