The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-03
EXERCISES At
MALE ACADEMY
Was Twenty-Sixth An
nuaI Commencement.
CL0SEDPERMANEkTN
Friends, Patrons and Former Students
We're in Attendance. PROF. Hugh
Morson One of Most Successful
Educators in the State, Pre-
pared Hundreds for College.

The twenty-sixth and last annual
commencement exercises of the
Raleigh Male Academy, of which Mr.
Hugh Marson is principal, were held
yesterday morning, and the halls were
crowded with the many friends
patrons and foremr students of the
institution. The exercises marked the
close Of an eminently successful period
of high school work by Prof Marson.
1t was twenty-eight years ago when
he came to Raleigh as one of the prin-
cipals of the Raleigh Male Academy,
which at that time was situated on the
site where at present is located the
governors mansion. Since then Prof.
Marson has prepared for college and
for life a large proportion of the
youth of Raleigh and this vicinity.
Aardoilouui all shamS and pedagogical
fads he has steadily adhered to the
practical plan of faithfully working
himself. requiring his pupils to work,
believing that no other method could
compensate personal effort and at
tention. The stand taken by his pupils
in all the colleges throughout the
country and in business show the re-
suit of his labors. The occasion for
the permanent close of the academy
in Raleigh, of which Prof. Morson has
been elected principal. The exercises
began promptly at IL o'clock, and
were opened with prayer and a Sc
lection from the scriptures, read by
Rev. w. c. Tyree, ID. ID.
The commencement address was de-
livefed by Dr. Thomas Z. Ivey, whose
discourse was on the nobility of man
hood and true manlineSs. DR.. lVey
cnnl<a in mart &c follows.
Man represents Gods highest crea-
tive work He is and ever has been
an object of interest. The public esti-
mate of man as an animal varies. AT
one time he sregarded as a bright
winged son of the morning. At
another, as the opposite of everything
angelic. By this one his existence is
that OF the ephemeridal; that one his
existence has a continuity which runs
through endless days. But after all
estimates and views and measure
ments he remains the most interesting
animal on earth.
What is a man? 1t is not enough
to say that there are three parts of
him: the physical. the mental and the
moral or spiritual. Thousands of men
today who are walking the earth with
superb physical and mental powers
and depth of sensibility are far from
being men.
But the world is learning that the
manifest form may be weak and
shrunken: that the most beautiful
light may beam in eyes faded and
dim; that the truest loneliness may
lie in cheeks that are frowned with
wrinkles. and that the most beautiful
hand may be that which is Drowned
and SCARED. For after all it is the
use of the body that gives it value in
its man-producing quality. There are
as many different kinds of minds as
there are faces. They / may be
lubelled under aoiaoioin heads Who
is not acquainted with the brilliant
mind, the average mind, the sturdy
mind. the plodding mind? 1t is said
that the sons of highly successful men
are to some extent degenerateS either
in a scientific or moral sense. If this
be true it is because of mistake to
which their sons are subject. Relying
uuon ancestric strength, they find
themselves robbed of that strength
which is found in self-reliance, and
all the rich resources of self. Blessed
is the man, or woman who has to
fight a Waterloo before the age of
twenty-one. The weight of response
bility in early days is blessing in
disguise Trying to learn to swim
with bladderS is a delusion and
snare. Deep water is the thing. Then
il is a mistake to suppose that success
in school is to be measured by the
ability to cram facts and retain them.
The boy who uses his body can form
work and reaches the manhood line
without having laid up a cent would
be foolish to say, Il have wasted my
best days. That his rich, red blood
and hardened muscles hess a king
lust so q man who was really diligent
during his school days and comes to
manhood to find that he has forgotten
every rule in grammar and decleusion
in Latin would be foolish in supposing
hit ne has wasted his earlier days.
With the mental Drawn and blood
and muscle which has come from
schooI-room exercise, he is invested
with royalty.
With the intent. enthusiastic mind
the mind which realizes that the more
IT learns the more it has to learn, the
mind which determiens to keep NOV
.ng in spite of all the oslers in the
world-this is the mind which eX-'
plores space, bridges oceans, tunnels
mountains builds monuments, lights
camp fires. passes through triumphal
hes and snehtstetose trsehtooetimeoh
arches. and sets the notes of commerce,
aoiaoiin philosophy, religion and
civilization to the music of revolving
spheres This is the mind of a
man.
1--WE come now to that which is the