Furman Magazine. Volume 45, Issue 1 - Full Issue

Furman Magazine Volume 45 Issue 1 Spring 2002 Article 1 4-1-2002 Furman Magazine. Volume 45, Issue 1 - Full Issue Furman University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine Recommended Citation University, Furman (2002) "Furman Magazine. Volume 45, Issue 1 - Full Issue," Furman Magazine: Vol. 45 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine/vol45/iss1/1 This Complete Volume is made available online by Journals, part of the Furman University Scholar Exchange (FUSE). It has been accepted for inclusion in Furman Magazine by an authorized FUSE administrator. For terms of use, please refer to the FUSE Institutional Repository Guidelines. For more information, please contact . Furma Spring 2002 F E A T U R E S 2 DEFINING MOMENTS Any institution that survives more than 175 years has its share of peaks and valley s . Here 's a look at Furman's journey so far. by A.V. Huff, Jr. 11 THE TOOLS OF DIPLOMACY A former Secretary of S tate addresses the nation's key foreign policy i s sues in the post-September 11 era. by Madeleine Albright 14 GLOBAL CHALLENGES Given the volatile times i n which we live, what role can and should Rich;:a w. Riley INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP the United States play in world affairs? by Jim Stewart 16 OF FAITH AND LEARNING Furman's president examines the complex question of the role religion should play in higher education. by David E. Shi 20 A MATTER OF TOLERANCE A frank discussion of religious harassment on campus may open the door to increased understanding and acceptance. by Hal Frampton FURMAN REPORTS 22 CAMPAIGN 32 ATHLETICS 34 ALUMNI NEWS 36 THE LAST WORD 48 Printed on partially recycled paper ON THE COVER: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks to a packed house in M cAlister Auditorium. Photo by Charlie Register AT FURMAN UNIVERSITY m James C. Furman, son of Richard Richard Furman (1755- 1 825) Furman, is the dominant figure in becomes a leading Baptist minister and envisions an academy that, i n university history from 1 844 to 1879 time, will "grow into a fully organized college should wise and liberal president in 1 859. and becomes the i nstitution's first measures be pursued ." Reflections on the people and events that have forged Furman's identity through the university's 175-year history. By A.V. Huff, Jr. 2 Furman closes during the Civil War, although the female college remains open. ROM THE VANTAGE POINT OF 175 YEARS OF FURMAN'S HISTORY, TWO CONCLUSIONS EASILY COME TO MIND. THE PROGRESSIVE VIEW OF THE PAST IS THE MOST COMMON AT CELEBRATORY MOMENTS LIKE THIS. LOOK HOW FAR WE'VE COME, WE MIGHT SAY, FROM THAT LITTLE ACADEMY IN EDGEFIELD. AREN'T WE - AND OUR FOREBEARS - GREAT TO HAVE MADE SO MUCH OUT OF SO LITTLE? THE OTHER CONCLUSION IS A MORE TRAGIC, DETERMINIST VIEW: WE ARE VICTIMS OF OUR HISTORY, NO MORE THAN PAWNS OF FORCES WE CANNOT CONTROL. IF FURMAN HAD NOT BEEN THREATENED BY SLAVERY, OR CIVIL WAR, OR A HUNDRED YEARS OF ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION, JUST THINK WHERE WE MIGHT BE TODAY. HOW EASY IT IS TO JUDGE OUR POOR, BENIGHTED FOREBEARS. IF ONLY THEY HAD OUR INSIGHT AND JUDGMENT. BUT OUR RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT AS AN INSTITUTION WARNS US AGAINST UNTRUTH ON THE ONE HAND, AND PRIDE ON THE OTHER. THERE IS YET ANOTHER WAY OF VIEWING OUR HISTORY, ONE SUGGESTED BY REINHOLD NIEBUHR, ARGUABLY THE BEST-KNOWN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY. IN A BOOK TITLED THE IRONY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, PUBLISHED IN 1951, NIEBUHR SUGGESTED THAT THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IS NEITHER A STORY OF UNENDING PROGRESS NOR A STORY OF VICTIMIZATION. As CREATURES OF HISTORY WE ARE BOUND BY OUR TIME AND PLACE, TO BE SURE, BUT WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ACTIONS AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CREATE A JUST AND EQUITABLE SOCIETY. 3 Mary Judson becomes lady principal of the Greenville Baptist Female College, three years before Charles Manly (1881-97) is named Furman's second president. Both are energetic, visionary leaders. sing Niebuhr's notion of irony, then, let us look at the principles of Christian liberality [i.e., the liberal arts], and in defining moments of Furman's history, beg i nning with favor of the rights of private judgment." the era of the academies and Oliver Hart, our earliest Furman's view combined the best of the Western humanist forebear. A native of Bucks County, Pa., Hart became pastor tradition with the cherished Baptist principle of private judgment. of the Baptist congregation in Charleston in 1 749, at the " I n time," he wrote, the academy might "grow up into a fully beginning of an economic golden age in colonial South organized college should wise and liberal measures be Carolina. He and his congregation were Regular Baptists, pursued." To support such an academy, Furman created a much more akin to the New England Puritans from whence statewide convention of Baptist churches. they sprang than to the revivalist Baptists that emerged from the First Great Awakening. Committed to a deeply rational and thoughtful religious But Richard Furman died in 1 825 and left it to his younger colleagues, led by William Bullein Johnson, to establish in December 1 826 the Furman Academy and Theological experience and to an educated ministry to help interpret that Institution, named in Dr. Furman's memory. The school opened experience, Hart urged the Charleston Association to create January 1 5, 1827, in the village of Edgefield, 80 miles south an education fund for the schooling of young ministers. Some of Greenville. The site near the Savannah River was chosen read theology with experienced clergy; others went off to study to attract students from Georgia, but they did not come - for at Rhode Island College (now Brown U niversity), the first at least another century! The principal was an English minister Baptist college in America. who had migrated to Pennsylvania, Joseph Andrews Warne. Hart's vision expanded with the dream of Richard Furman, Tuition at the academy was $8 per quarter, including the use his successor in Charleston, whose ancestors had sailed to of the library, and the rules of conduct banned "lying, cursing, Massachusetts Bay with John Winthrop on the Arbella in swearing, drunkenness, fighting, dueling, dice, card and billiard 1 630. Furman championed the patriot cause duri ng the playing, betting, theft and fornication." American Revolution, fought for the separation of church and Yet the best-laid plans did not ensure success. Eight state, and early in the 1 9th century was one of the architects dollars in tuition was expensive in an agricultural economy of the Baptist denomination in the new nation. where cash was hard to come by, and the school opened and While his colleagues planned a college in the nation's capital that became George Washington University, Furman 4 Andrew P. Montague (president 1897 -1902) an (...truncated)