The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13

short while after this that the present
school was founded for girls by d..
Albert Smedes.
''Old JefT'' LovejOy.
Following DR.. McPheeters at the
Raleigh Male Academy came Jefferson
Madison LoveJoy, a man of power,
temper, learning and eccentricity. He
put his personality into the name of
the school, SO that for years it was
known as "Lovejoy School" The
tales of that distinctive institution and
It's master would fill a volume. 1t was
i lighting school. The teacher fought
with his switch and ruler, the scholars.
afre with the glory of battle settled
disputes among themselves with fist
and skull fights which proceeded to a
finish. THE Big Oak" at the corner
OF Edenton and Blount, was the arena
and the fights under it's branches have
gone into city history and become with
tradition battles of a sort worthy of
a Roman holiday.
OF Lovejoy, DR.. Battle says: "Old
Jeff" was the last of the oldtime
teachers, and he became somewhat
milder at the close of his career. His
standing rule was a lick for each word
missed, and he seemed to enjoy the in
Fiction. l have heard him ridicule a
moaning sufferer. What is a whip
ping? Nothing but bringing a stick
INTO contact with a boys leg. Why
make a fuss about that"
ION the whole he was good teach
er and kind to those who would do
right and obey orders. He was a man
of force and striking pecularities of
manner and diction. With what
awe / listened to the account OF
his courtship of his excellent wife. Il
cOltrtE1 her. i'll / said ETf
you will not have me you shall not
marry another. | will watch If any
man shows attention to you / will
kill him! She was a good woman. She
did not want young men slaughtered
She did not want me to be hung for
murder. She married me and has
been the bestzwife in the world"
During 1878 and 1874 there was 4
school for boys which was located on
the lot of the Edenton Street Metho-
dist Church, and run as church
school, although it was not strictly
UNCONVENTIONAL but was attended by
many boys of ether than the Metho-
GiSt faith. The principal of this
school was the Rev. S. r. Trawick,
who was assisted by T.. e. Gray, Esq,
now q Winston lawyer, and then un-
der eighteen years of age, although a
college graduate for several years.
by Mr.. Gray and afterwards merged
into the Lovejoy academy. A little
later there was another school on West
Jones street near the site of the Blind
Institution which was conducted by
the Presbyterian pastor, Rev, j. NJ.
Atkinson, and his son-in-law, Major
Charles Scott.
The ''RaIeigh Male Academy"
la 1876 the school went into the
hands of Mr.. Hugh Morson, who had
been teaching at Hillsboro with Mr..
Homer For q year he ran the AGA
denny in connection with Major
Charles H. Scott and the next session
was associated in the management
with Captain j. j. Fray.
Neither of these men can perhaps
be properly termed an "Old-time"
school teacher Captain Fray
had some of the marks; oc-
casionally he would let fly
book at the head of some recall
citrant or impertinent pupil and he
welded the rod on occasion nightly,
nut not with the nonchalance of the
older masters. AS Fray and Morson''
running the Raleigh Male Academy"
the school prospered until Captain
Trays death in 1888, the site having
been moved from the old Burke
square in 1881 to the location at which
the school was since conducted up to
last June.
In 1884 Captain C. Is. benson be-
came associated with Mr.. Morson, and
IS "Morson and benson" the school
was run until captain Denson's death.
when Mr.. Morson conducted it. en-
plOying his assistants. Captain benson
was a man of rare scholarship and
real ability as a teacher, but he was
not Of the temperament to deal with
youthful efferVesence. His gentle ma
ture must have suffered much at the
hands of the young Indians" he was
called upon to control.
A Learned Man, "Born" a Teacher.
Mr.. Morson, however knew his boys
as well as he did his books He is
great teacher. A man who enforces
certain calm in the school room as
right, who has the power of illustra-
tiOn-that almost uncanny ability to
unravel a tangled proposition which is
the heritage of the born teacher. A
scholar of a progressive sort, tied to
no hide-bound convictions, yet indie