The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-28
Address by State Auditor
B. r. Dixon.
THE PRIZE WINNERS
Robert Proctor Got The Fray Latin
Medal, Hubert A. Jones Tie Mailer
Mathematical Medal, and Alex
ander M. Field the General
Scholarship Medal.

The friends of the Raleigh Male
Academy turned out in large numbers
yesterday morning to witness the
twenty-sixth annual commencement of
the school. The exercises were at the
Academy, which was filled to over
flowing.
The opening prayer was offered by
Rev. DR.. NJ. NJ Marshall, Rector of
Christ Church, this CITY,. and DR.. B.
+. Dixon, the State Auditor, delivered
the address.
Dr. Dixon urged upon the boys
the necessity for work in order to at
tain success in any line whatever. He
rejoiced that the day was past when
labor was looked down upon. The
boy that could make something with
his hands was worth all tn educated
fellows out of a job in the world. At
the same time he did not put mere
manual labor above everything else.
The trained brain was the greatest
thing of all, because that was neces-
sary for trained labor, intelligent
work. Brains brought high price, if
they were applied to effect the doing
of something. The man who knows
how to do things is the man of today
not the man who merely knows
things.
He enjoined upon his hearers that if
they must fight, it ought to be always
in the defense or the protection of
the weak, and told how Tom Brown
at Rugby had fought for little Arthur
He also begged of the boys to respect
women. 1t was said that the Ameri
cans were famous for their respect of
women. They were not. They were
famous for their respect of ladies.
But we should respect the sex, no mat
ter how poor or meanly clad the in
dividual might be-. In this connection
DR.. Dixon gave some exceedingly
wholesome advice on the subject of
politeneSs.
1t was an address full of meat.
There was not prosy sentence in it.
Apt anecdotes pointed the morals and
adorned the whole tale. The audience
applauded loud and long when it was
over.
Then Prof. Hugh Morson. principal
of the school, read out the distinc-
lions attained during the year and at
the closing examination as follows:
Those making marks of 95 or over
are entitled TO first distinction; those
making from 80 to 95 are entitled to
second distinction. The figure follow
ing the name indicates the number of
distinctions.
First Distinction-George Ashe 2,
William Aycock 2, John Boushal 4,
Neville Brown 1, Thorne Clark l, Ma
cauley Costner 5, Edwin Dewar L, Wy
lie Dowd 2, William Duncan l, Nc
Medley DuBose 2, Alexander Field 6,
Wilder Fort 1. Richard Giersch 2,
Neal Ivey L, George Jenkins 3, Will
liam Jerman 2, Hubert Jones 4, James
Joyner 4, Hugh Lee 1, Maple Mills 2,
John Morson 1. William Norris 1,
James Pou L, Robert Proctor L. John
Ray 1, Frank Sherwood 1, Hugh
Thompson 4, Chas Upchurch l. Har-
old Vreeland 1, Arthur Walters 1, Ed
win Woodall 1, Chas. Young 1.
Second Distinction Melbourne
Angler /, George Ashe 1, William Ay-
cock 1, Garland Bagwell /, Burney
Barrow 1, Neville Brown 2, Chas.
Burton 2, James Cheshire l, Thorne
Clark 4, Wylie Dowd 2, Clyde Doug
lass 1, McNeeley DuBose 1, Fred
Duke 3, William Duncan l, Peyton
Enniss 1, Richard Giersch L, Andrew
Green 1, Loomis Goodwin 2, Ebert
Howell L, Neal Ivey 2, George Jen-
kins 3, Carrie Jones 8, James Joyner