Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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 Spacious, attractive, and conveniently located living uarters that insure the safety and privacy of the residents, especially the female residents. 'Delightful cuisine served cafeteria-style. International dishes are house specialties. Open Bar in the Dining Room. •Sparkling clean lake for your swimming and sailing pleasure. • 18-hole championship golf course. •Olympic-sized indoor pool. •18 composite and clay tennis courts. 6 raquetball courts. •Reasonably-priced resort store for your convenience. •Horseshoe pits. •Shady picnic grounds. Super special picnic menus available. •Watkins Center — Furman’s unique nightspot. •Full social calendar. Super Special Features How to Join Membership: You’ll get this and MORE for only $5000 per person, per year. Apply now. Write: Office of Admissions Furman University Greenville, South Carolina 29613 Prices always subject to rise.

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Turman - in - the Hills Resort and Recreation Hafen for the Tlite Located in the South Carolina Piedmont between Travelers Rest and Berea. Home Away From Home Furman-in-the-hills, a unique family get-away for you and yours, offers the finest in recreational facilities at prices that can only be expected for such luxury. Located at the foot of statuesque Montaine Paris, only 150 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia, Furman-in-the-hills offers easy access to several airports, including the Greenville-Spartanhurg Propeller-Port. Furman-in-the-hills’ beautiful 750 acre campus awaits you. It stays green year-around because of this area’s more than adequate rainfall. We provide twenty-two charming Virginia brick buildings for your recreational pleasure, too. And much, MUCH more awaits you at Furman-in-the-hills . . .

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Dogs I Have Known dents. Mooching season never ends for the dedicated Furman Dogs. And who can deny a small piece of mystery meat to Tripod, the poor German Shepherd with the pathetic limp? Or the skinny little collie-beagle-poodle, for that matter? For the most part, the dogs live their lives in a paradoxical state of anonym- Idogl n., a highly variable carnivorous domesticated mammel (Canis familiaris) probably descended from the common wolf. (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary) Everyone has their own image of the typical dog. People think of anything from Grandma’s toy poodle to that vicious German Shepherd next door. There are literally thousands of breeds of dogs in the world, and each breed has its own characteristic traits — personality as well as physical appearance. What about all the age-old phrases about dogs? Sayings like “It’s a dog’s life,” “To go to the dogs,” “Every dog has his day,” “It’s a dog-eat-dog world,” “Let sleeping dogs lie,” “Sick as a dog,” “Mad Dogs and Eng- lishmen,” “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” These sayings all tend to give most people a slanted view of what the average dog is really like. At Furman, however, there lives a breed of dog — if one can truly call it a breed — like no other. This breed of dog is known to exist only in the academic atmosphere which is unique to Furman University. These particular dogs do not have any common physical traits. Their temperments are not a common denominator. If they were human, they would probably be classified as normally intelligent, productive individuals. It is the latter term — their air of independence — that best characterizes the Furman Dogs, as they are affectionately know n to nearly all of the Furman community. In spite of their overall independent attitudes, the Furman-Dogs do depend quite often on the generosity of the stu- 30 Dogs