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

Hooper, the perfect gentleman, learn
ed in all the wisdom of the Greeks, but
almost too mild for those chaps who
faced him daily on the second floor OF
the South Building. | may never for
get the sad hours when l with others
kept holy watch over his remains. No
one whom [ have known, save Lau-
don G. Garland, LID, equalled him as
the courtly scholar of the old school.
Ralph Henry Graves, silent, absent
minded, of universal scholarship,
sometimes gruff, always tender-heart-
ed, treading with sure feet the dizzy
heights of mathematics, perhaps with
little skill to drag the drone or lead
the fool, he was yet great teacher for
him who would and who could learn.
John Manning, LID, dignified but
genial, learned in the law and skilled
to teach it, able to win the admirinS
love Of those none-toogood limbs or
the law and to keep it with all their
growth until, mirabile dictu, they have
become our statesmen. And AdolphuS
| w. Mangum d. D., my fathers friend,
my own good friend. and wise council
| lor during the days of passage from
boyhood to manhood, and the rather
| of her who is my best friend and life's
COMPANION no words of mine can tell
the manifold obligations which | owe
him and the love and admiration l
shall ever bear him. No man could be
| a scholar in the modern sense and
| teach at one time elocution, oratory'
English, history, metaphysics, De
chaplain of the college and the pastor
of the village, but he was great
teacher and greater man. Ana ms
son. nv fraternity mate, society-mate,
| and friend. Ernest Preston Mangum,
whose great work as a teacher closed
| so sadly only last year. Space vii not
| allow me even to mention many whom
as student at Chapel Hill. and subse-
uuently as pastor there | have known
and admired.
For four years in a great Tonnes
sean University / Sar at the feet OF ~
! North Carolinian as he unfolded the
! teachings of the Great Teacher. VII
! Der F. Tillett, DID,, Dean OF the BlDh-
cal Department of Vanderbilt OnlVet-
| sitv is one of North Cardinals great
est sons. While there | also came 10
| know William r. Webb and his broth
or John. sons of the Old North State
! than whom none have better right 10
be called great teachers. But coming
first in my life, and having known all
great teachers | do not hesitate TO say,
| in her own sphere the greatest or all
7 remember Mrs. Frances M. Bum
mas or as every one would say AUNT
4
sprung the Webb brothers ralthful
wife of one of the noblest ministers OF
the Methodist Church. Rev. Sidney ~.
Bumpas. she was left by his death 70
rear and educate their children. While
Greensboro lay PROSTATE from the
war she built up a Furnishing private
school. I do not know how it was call
ed by our elders; to the children II was
Bumpas' Institute. Oh, the Jollity OF
that play ground! The fun and frollc
of those boys and girls some OF whom
now hold their children's children on
their knees! How bright the memor-
les! But brightest, sweetest or all Is
the indelible picture of the salnted
face and the memory of the music OF
the gentle voice tuned to the key OF
love by the composer of Heavens mar
monies. In after years | heard one Oh
Americas greatest teachers or Peda-
goey as he unfolded, sometimes as II ne
fondly fancied himself the discoVerer
of them, the great truths which unde,-
lie the work of teacher of small en-
dren. AS we passed from the nan
said to my wife: "All this Aunt Bum
mas understood and practiced pelore
the speaker was born.
Hartford, August /, 1905