Raleigh High School - Rattler Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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A Chronicle of the Class of '09 9 slr DECEMBER 19, 1905. Our Christmas holidays are here after our iirst term in the High School. It seems a long time Qalthough it has been only a few monthsj since a crowd of anxious boys and girls waited to see if their names were on the list of those who had completed the Grammar School Course and were ready to take up higher work. There are thirty-two in our class, won- der how many will be with us in May of 1909 3 At irst our work was confusing, why should one use X's and z's when a problem is much easier worked by arithmetic? And Latin is so hard, our brains were in a whirl with declensions, con- jugations and indirect discourse. But we are getting more used to things now, and perhaps our marks will improve. MAY 20, 1906. Exams. are over, and of course we all passed, for we are soon to be sophs, and the first Freshman Class of old R. H. S. is no more. APRIL 19, 1907. Thank goodness, this year is nearly over! We have been through the wars with Caesar, but needless to say, we have not enjoyed the journey so much as that venerable hero evidently did. Our trials in our other studies have increased a hun- dredfold, and we have found out tha.t being a soph is more work than play. MAY 15, 1908. VVe are juniors now, and feel quite big, but oh, how we envy those seniors their privileges! Senior meetings are quite the rage, and we are not sorry, for on the occasion of each we are excused from at least one recitation. Our trials with math. this year are enough to drive one distracted, 8

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Mr. Morson will be known in the educational history of North Carolina as one of the State's truly great teachers. Few others, perhaps, have exerted a greater influence upon the destiny of North Carolina than this modest and Halto- gether private individual. Many of the men, in every call- ing of life, engaged in every form of activity, who have pro- moted and are promoting the educational, industrial and scientific interests of the commonwealth in the period of un- precedented growth it is now undergoing, owe a large part of their efficiency and character to Mr. Hugh Morson. If any one doubts this he should talk with some of the old boys and those who have assisted Mr. Morson at various times in his teaching. It is the writer's pleasure to know many of these, and he can truthfully say that 'none knows him but to love him, none names him but to praise' Thoroughness of instruction and the inculcation of noble, manly ideals of character have ever been the highest aims of Mr. Morson. Abjuring educational fads, he has been wont to stress the fundamentals of education rather than to dissi- pate his energy in teaching subjects for which his facilities were inadequate. In the athletic and other contests of the schools of which he has been the head, he has invariably re- pudiated everything that might smack of fraud or deception. Singularly candid in his dealings with students, they have with few exceptions been unreserved in their attitude toward him. The students of the High School are justly proud of their Principal. They know that they have in him no ordinary man, that they have in him a. Christian gentleman of the highest type, and an accomplished scholar, albeit one who is characterized by an almost excessive modesty and an almost too strict devotion to duty. It is their sincerest hope that he may for many years longer preside over the destinies of the Raleigh High School, until that institution becomes the 'fbright morning star of the North Carolina public school system. 7

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Mm... ANNA C. STRONG. FRANK A. SBIETHURST. A. RAND. JULIAN AREY J. HUNTER. C CY. LA ALICE EDITORIAL STAFF.