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

themselves and prepare their lessons
or to submit to the rod. or dig stumps
under his eye in a neighboring grove
He seldom dismissed boy, unless he
was incorrigibly worthless, but occa-
sionaIly he found it necessary to con-
quer a larger boy who resisted his au-
thority by superior strength and pluck
in fair fight. There was tradition
in the school, that a vigorous youth,
lows that "Old Bill" shouldn't whip
him, and that after a sound tlogging
following a feeble resistance, his NOR
LITIGATION was SO great that he attempt
ed to end his life by drinking lauda-
mum, and the attempt was frustrated
only by the timely arrival of physi
clan. AS an example of the thorough
ness of his training l would mention
that of seven of his boys who were
Freshmen with me at college -four
We're in the first and second rank,
while the other three were classed the
first session, as high as respectable. .
1t was a matter of course that stu
dents from his Senior Glass would
readily be admitted, after careful eX-
animation, into any college in the
land .tu.,F - ,..
A contemporary of Mr. Bingham for
about a quarter of d century and quite
teach, was Rev. Alexander Wilson, d.
D., Morganton, distinguished and use
full in the States as civil engineer.
railroad president, legislator and
Chairman Of the Railroad Commission
DIR. Wilson was an Irishman%by birth
and a. Presbyterian in faith, like Mr.
Bingham, and. like him, too, he be
Tlieved%ain eendign~ punishment for an
idle or bay bod, an on occasion he
of h.
came to. the State he secured by the
help of gentlemen to whom he had
letters of introduction, a small school
in Granville county; but afterwards he
was at the head of caldwell In
stitute," at Greensboro, and on its
removal, in Hillsboro; but about 1850
following MIR. BinghG ms example, he
established school at a post office
known at Melville, Ia Alamance coun-
ty, three or four miles east of Graham,
and there he taught until his death.
commanding all the patronage he
wanted My observation convinced
me that for the average boy Mr..
Bingham was the better manager and
disciplinarian, but DR.. Wilson was the
more inspiring, or, Gas Rev. DR..
Charles Phillips eXprssd it,, 'ex-
planative" teacher, to the more talent
ed an studiouS boys under his charge.
Johnston PettigreW, The most accom-
plished scholar, during his college
days, ever at the University, had been
a pupil of Mr.. Bingham, the four
most thorough scholars, during the
eight years of my connection with the
institution, to wit: j. Berney Gutter
and James f. Lindsay, of Greensboro;
Francis d. Stockton, of StateSville, and
William A Warster of Wilmington,
We're sent to Chapel Hill from DR.. Will
sons school; as also We're four of the
Morehead boys from Greensboro, who
were first honor men in their classes.
/ am inclined to think DR.. Wilson
himself, or by his assistants, looked
less after the private life of his boys
than. did Mr.. Bingham: because more
of his pupils during the first part of
their college course showed a ten
dency to dissipation than those from
the Bingham School where the man
agement was more watchful and
pannatal But there were few wild
boys, comparatively, from either
school
The third good teacher. of whom ]
would speak, was Z. j. LovejOy, lola
Jeff" as his boys called him. He was
of about the same age as Mr.. Bing-
ham and DIR. Wilson. He was a New
Highlander, by birth, but while still II
young man came to this State, and
began his career as teacher in Pitts
boro. He moved to Raleigh and took
charge of the Raleigh Male Academy
about 1912, and taught here until the
end of the war. He became an ar
dent North Carolinian and Raleighite,
and was won't to say, 1.-The United
States is the best country in the
world, North Carolina is the most at
tractive part of the United States, and
ID LII H. d. <,.,AI~
Carolina"
Mr.. Lovejoy's school was supported
almost entirely by local patronage.
some youth from a distance were en-
tered as pupols. His house, which
was near the southwest corner of the
square on which the Governors Man
sion stands, was large enough to &C
commodate fw besides his family, and
he had few boarding pupils. He, too,
believed in the rod, but generally used
it on the hand of an offending boy.
He was ardent in teaching, but his
vigilance was great, and a festive idler
was frequently shocked by his roar
ing out to him, by Heavens, boy;
come here and let me thrash you" He
preferred the language 10 mathema-
TICS, and his ctudentS were less thor
oughly drilled in Arithmetic and AL
zebra than in Virgil or the Auadasis;
but in his day almost every class at
Chapel Hill had a First Honor man
from Lovejoy's School. Like most
teachers of the olden time, he was
peculiar in some of his ways and ex-
pressions, and for his oddities, and his
excllencies | would refer any who are
interested TO our neighbors, Capt
John B. Grimes, Col. VIM. J. Saunders,
Hons. C. M. Busbee, F. II. Busbee, DR..
I. M. and Mr. V. Register, DR.. K. p.