Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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an « c « If someone should oslc us what the year at Furman has meant to us. we should be silent, for there is too much to answer, in a word, or on a printed page. For when, in September, a city in Russia was falling, and there were hushed whispers of Defeat! Defeat! , the Furman students returned to the campus dazed, wondering what their part was to be in the conflict, and what college could do to prepare them for that part. And the dosses, the classes seemed cloistered, and the subjects futile and obsolete. The student body began to work with their eyes on the textbooks and their thoughts on the headlines. Then, everyone wondered if there was a place for the academic world in a world at war. « c « But Furman has met the challenge. The faculty and the administration recognized the duties of a college in preparing young people for war. By installing emergency courses in Math and Physics, radio, ana biology, they offered the students opportunities to better serve their country by being skilled in needed professions. A physical education program that made the boys conscious of new muscles and the novelty of learning muscular skills and coordinations was participated in by every boy in the school. The famed obstacle course gave them more than a hint of actual army endurance requirements. But in making all of these changes the faculty did not lessen the value of a degree. They merely adhered more closely to Aristotle's concept of an educated man: A sound mind in a sound body. c « « And now the year has ended and the war goes on. But the spirit has changed and the doubts have vanished. For men are marching out from Furman prepared, prepared to meet any demands that may be placed on them. And when the final dot, dot, dot, dash sounds from across the seas, and the bell in the tower once more rings out Victory, then Furman shall have cause to be proud of the soldiers that she has prepared and who will come marching home to make a better peace. And equally proud she will be of the Furman girls who have waited for their Furman men and who in their more peaceful ways have aided and inspired that Victory.. .. C Ut . . . 4

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Furman lie C aniyiis n vu n u h VC Left: FINE ARTS, Plays. Town Hall. Conceits, Rosemary. Below: LI8RARy. Socialising, Sleeping. Studying.