Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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J UDGE not the play before the play is done.” It was natural that time was taken out as the directors called, Cut! . . . long enough for us in 1951 to recall the first one hundred years of the Drama of Furman University' enacted before one continuous backdrop. In 1851 it was that the play entitled Furman in Greenville began, and this year we paused to review in a Centennial Pageant the act that consumed one hundred years: an act . . . which started with the decision of South Carolina Baptists to move the Academy to Greenville . . . which survived Civil War and the difficult days when the president of the school dared say, though faced with the danger of personal financial ruin if he continued in office: I have nailed my colors to the mast and if the ship goes down, I go down with it . . . which influenced many of the cast through the years to dedicate their lives to fuller Christian living. It is in universities that . . . the soul of a n this mirror that reflects the drama of the past jointing to the future and its possibilities of tage. The past part of the drama we know he new stage that is soon to be built we iew campus will come to have as many itself.” And 125 years ever-widening with that the the old. nrolled.