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

Battle, of Chapel Hill, or DIR. Richard
4. Lewis, of Kinston, who are among
lis surviving pupils. Mr.. Lovejoy was
lot, l believe, a profesSed member of
my church, but frequently attended
he services of the Episcopal church,
Of which some of his family were
communicates. His school in Raleigh
survived the war, but owing to
changed conditions and the loss of
fortune by his patrons, its doors were
closed and soon thereafter, and he
joining a daughter, who had married
I gentleman living in Scotland Neck.
if l mistake not, died there about
1870.
The last Of the four notable teach
ers 1 would mention is James H.
Horner, the founder of the Horner
school at Oxford He was younger
than the other three, and was gradu-
lted from our University with it's
highest honors in 1914. He had
been a pupil of VIM. j. Bingham. and
largely adopted his methods of in
5truction and discipline, though per-
haps with some improvements. His
students sent to the University did not
much attract my motive until the lat
ter part of my course as Tutor in the
institution about 1857. The prof.
cheney of Il large class he sent up in
that year, when / examined them for
admission in Greek and Latin, struck
me forcibly, and | was satisfied that
he who had SO prepared them had
attained the first rank as a great
teacher. The success of those popils
and others who sat at his feet, after
wards, such as the four Winston
brothers, Bishop Robert Strange, and
1some&ef~ their predecessors or success
ors, possibly as distinguished as they
at school or since, has proved that my
opinion then formed was we'll found
Cd His enthusiasm IN the class room,
especially when the recitatiOns were in
the Ancient Languages, has been de-
scribed to me by some of his stu
dents. as intensive, and it was com.
municated t Othe pupils. AS he would
stand before his classes, nearly H
feet high, with his face aglow and
unconsciously gesticulating with head
and arms, as with rapid words he de-
livered the thoughts of the great
writer's and orators of Greece and
Rome, so interested his eager listen
ers that the stroke of the bell for re-
cess passed UNDECIDED. A rare
achievement judging from my own
experience, at school and in college,
when the voice of the teacher was at
once drowned in the hubbub of gen
eral rush for the door on the sound
ing of such bell. Soon after the War
Between the States Mr.. Horner anG
Ralph Graves. the elder, himself all
experienced teacher of high rank.
established the Homer and Graves
School at the barrack near Hillsboro.
where Col Tew had conducted a
military school with growing success,
shortly before the commencement OF
hostilities. The school commanded
large patronage and excellent eachin6
was done by the principals and such
assistants AS Mr.. Fl. Morson, who
then began his life as a teacher, and
Monroe Horner, the older son of Mr..
j. H. Horner, but the strain conse-
quent upon the change proved too
much for Mr.. Horner and his physical
and mental health became SO much
affected that it was thought best fOl
him to return to Oxford, and with the
help of his two sons, (Junius NJ, now
the Bishop Of Asheville, having COM
pleted his scholastic education), and
others and re-establish the Horner
School This was done. and his health
being partially restored, he was able
on the old plantations again to do eX-
cellent work. The venture redOunded
to the advantage of his family and the
community; as the present high stand
ing of the school, under its old name
with Jerome Homer AS a principal
with dormitories. its session time all
filled, shows. But the burden soon
proved too heavy for the old founder
longer to help bear--as in his zeal
he would do-and after a successful
career as 4 teacher for about forty
years, he passed to his rest
Mr.. Horner was a communicate OF
the Episcopal church, and true to the
faith he professed; but he was tolerant
of the religious views of others, and
his desire was to instIll in his students
with a love of secular learning, be-
lief in the essentials of the Christian
faith. His old students, whenever his
name is mentioned. even now, in their
presence, delight in ascribing to him
the virtue of good man, and the eX>
cellencies of a great teacher They
are proud that he was to each OF
them a friend.
Raleigh n. c.
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