In 1890 Mr Dougall was appointed Assistant Mathematical Master in Garnethill School, Glasgow, and two years later was transferred to Whitehill School, Dennistoun, where for six years he was at the head of the Mathematical Department. In 1898 he was appointed to the Headmastership of Ewart High School, Newton Stewart, which is of the same class as Dollar Institution. There he acquired valuable experience, not only of the general work of a Higher Class School, but also of the special requirements of a school which aims to be conducted on modern lines.

We trust that Mr Dougall will never have cause to regret the step he has taken in coming to Dollar, and that the Governors and all well-wishers will have every ground for satisfaction in the choice which has been made of a Headmaster to our far-famed Academy.

Mr Charles Dougall was Rector from 1902 - 1923. Educated in the University of Glasgow, he took an MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, along with an earlier Distinction in Classics. He was the Cunninghame Gold Medallist in 1892, having held the Eglinton Fellowship in 1890. His teaching career was based in the West of Scotland - as teacher of Mathematics in Garnethill School in Glasgow, Head of Mathematics in Whitehill School, Dennistoun, and finally as Headmaster of the Douglas Ewart High School in Newton Stewart. A noted Burns scholar, he published the Life and The Collected Poems of Burns. A vigorous Rector, he suffered badly during the First World War through overwork and breakdown. His son Charles was shot down by one of Richthofen's pilots, injured and imprisoned. His daughter Elizabeth, like her father, wrote poetry, and she married John Hogben, a former pupil, who became the proprietor of the Edinburgh Book Shop in George Street - a branch of Thin's - and they founded the Moray Press. There was a wide range of achievements during his Rectorship - The Dollar Magazine began in 1902, the Cadet Corps in 1903, girls' hockey in the same year and he himself raised funds for the boys' pavilion in 1908; the science block was designed by Rowand Anderson and built in 1910. The Quints were established in 1911, and the Pipe Band in 1913. There were aims to provide a swimming pool, but, surprisingly, not enough water. The walls to the south were lowered, and railings provided. The gates on Cairnpark Street at Academy Place were probably added at this time. The Institution became the Academy in 1918, and a new school badge was approved by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. Girls' sports were established in 1918. The cricket pitch (Bowfold Park) was bought by fund-raising to mark the Centenary of the school, and the War Memorial was put in place in 1921. During Dougall's Rectorship, the Government introduced the National Pay Scale. The Academy was unable to pay its staff, and the Governors handed over the school to Clackmannanshire in 1921 and a new body of Governors was appointed by the County. Dougall resigned through ill health in 1922, and died in Stirling in 1930. His achievements suggest that he was an outstanding Headmaster, though the final comments by the Editor of the magazine in his retiral year give grudging acknowledgement of his spell in office.

Mr Dougall, take him all in all, will go down in the history of the School as one of its foremost headmasters.

... on the 31st January, 1919, a number of Brethren from various Lodges met in the Bath Hotel, Glasgow ... [T]he Chair was taken by Brother J S Jamieson of Lodge St John, No. 3bis, who, having outlined the purpose of the meeting, called upon Brother Charles S Dougall, M.A., rector of Dollar Academy, to give an address on 'Burns and Freemasonry'.

DOUGALL.- At "The Inclosure," Stirling, the residence of his sister, Mrs T B Ferguson, suddenly, on 2 January 1930, Charles Shirra Dougall, M.A., J.P., Rector Emeritus of Dollar Academy, and lately of 23 Cargil Terrace, Edinburgh, second son of the late Robert Dougall, Kippen.