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W. W. Duncan, Financial Secretary and Treasurer; J. A. Gamewell, 

 Secretary of Faculty. 



FUEMAN UNIVERSITY, GREENVILLE, S. C. 



This institution, founded by the Baptists of tlie State, has been in 

 operation a little rnore than thirty years. It is situated within the cor- 

 porate limits of the city of Greenville, upon the western side of Reedy 

 river, a little stream rising near the- foot of the mountains and, on its 

 way to the Saluda, intersecting the site of Greenville city. The grounds 

 of the University embrace some forty acres of land, constituting a wooded 

 height of remarkable beauty. Near its centre, and fronting the main 

 street of the western portion of the city, stands the main pile of the Uni- 

 versity building. The scene from its tower is one of the finest. The 

 undulations of Laurel creek and Reedy river, the near heights of Lowndes 

 hill, Piney mountain and Paris mountain, the more remote lines of Plog- 

 back, Ctesar's Head and Table Rock, with yet more distant points of the 

 Blue Ridge, present a view of surpassing beauty. The building itself is 

 wholly devoted to the immediate purposes of instruction ; one section 

 containing a chapel, a chemical laboratory, a philosophical apparatus 

 room, and a library room. Another section contains seven recitation 

 rooms, and two society rooms. These two sections are connected by the 

 mathematical room, which is furnished with ample blackboards, and 

 with tiers of desks and seats which enable every student to see distinctly 

 the work upon the blackboards. 



There is no provision for boarding within the Universit3^ The history 

 of colleges shows that dormitories in college buildings, and boarding in 

 commons, have been the sources of incalculable moral damage. Li a 

 correspondence with some leading instructors, instituted by those who 

 projected this institution, facts and opinions were gathered which made 

 them unwilling to embrace the old college system in the plan to be in- 

 augurated in Greenville. The late President Way land, for instance, gave 

 it as his deliberate opinion, that forty-nine-fiftieths of the trouble in col- 

 leges grow out of the dormitory system. Boys, to be safe in college, must 

 divide in families ; and the boarding-house which is most like home is 

 the best place for them. More than thirty years' experience in Furman 

 University has confirmed these views. There has never been the slightest 

 sign of any thing like a rebellion. There has been scarcely any need for 

 discipline beyond the kind, quiet admonition. A few instances, at long 

 intervals, have occurred, in which it has been necessary to put away a 

 student for unworthy conduct; but in every such instance, the action of 

 the faculty has had the unqualified moral support of the body of students. 



