Dover High School - Doverian Yearbook (Dover, DE)

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DOVER HIGH SCHOOL I5 you would feel. the President himself could not have dragged this secret from me. My client wishes me to state that, owing to a light- ness in the head, caused by its gradual swelling during the last three years, and a heaviness in the hearts and other organs, caused by thoughts of parting and over-feasting respectively, she may have been mistaken in her inventory, but such as she thinks she has she gives you, praying that you may not believe that it is only because she can not keep her goods that she is generous. THE VVILL. Wfe, the Senior Class of the High School of the City of Dover, County of Kent, State of Delaware, being about to leave this sphere, in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. And, first, we do direct that our funeral services shall be con- ducted by our friends and well-wishers, the faculty only enjoining that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our situation in the school scale has merited. As to such estate as it has pleased the fates and our own strong arms to give us, we do dispose of the same as follows, viz.: Item: VVe give and bequeath to the lloard of Education restful nights and peaceful dreams. XVe promise them a rest from the HIQISU wishes. Class Fifteen has always been modest and retiring in dealing with school airs. Item: We give and bequeath to the school as a whole our songs. These songs to become the possession of the school on condition that she holds them in trust as a nucleus, to which, each year, shall be added others, until we have a collection to be proud of. May Alma Mater be the theme of far better songs in the future. Item: VVe give and bequeath to our best beloved and cherished sister, The Class of Sixteen, all the wealth of love and blessings she may want. She seems to be unable to obtain such things unaided. So we liberally give them the honor of Presidency and Secretary of Athenian Literary Society. May our mantle fall completely on her shoulders. Item: VVe give to the junior Class the following advice, accept- ing which will lead them to glory: copy The Class of Sixteenng learnf to work, if not to wing development comes sooner through bearing failures than successes. It isn't fun, but still look at Sixteen and be encouraged. Item: The subjoined list will be recognized as entailed estates, to which we do declare the Class '16 the real and rightful successors.

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I4 THE i,o1'Us made, I gathered that Florence had just made her debut in Chau- tauqua as a soloist. while Jack, who had made his beginning at D. H. S., had become prominent as a lecturer. The next scenes were hurried through, for the light was growing dim, and now that I had begun, I determined, if possible, to see the remainder of the class. Ivy Hudson was shown sitting at a desk in the library at Vassar College, where, it seems, she had received the position of librarian, after completing her education in that line. Then, next, I saw Eugenia Raughley, who had her art studio in New York, and I knew her, naturally because she sat beside an un- tinished picture, upon which the colors were drying, while Eugenia fixed her hair more becomingly. But, perhaps, it was best that NVes had saved this next and most startling sight until last, for before me spread the Halls of Congress. and at the Delaware Senatorial desk stood Myrtle Raymond, making a speech upon the Progress of VVomen in Politics. I could scarcely realize that this was Myrtle, if I had not before heard of her work in Delaware as a suffragist. Then the glass became dull and I could see no more reflections. Perhaps it was best, for already I had begun to doubt my reason, and wonder if it wasn't a pretty good joke that was being put over on me. However, lVes seemed to have implicit faith in his machine, so I took his word for its being real. Madge Nickerson, QIS. CLASS WILL. Class of Fifteen, about to die, salutes you! Contrary to the custom in such cases. and loath as are all mem- bers of my conservative profession to establish precedents, only at the behest of my noble client, eighteen in number have I called you to- gether before her death, to hear her will and to receive her gifts. I was persuaded to this action by the unusual circumstances of my client. I dread to tell you. but be calm: the doctor is here ready to re- vive all fainting ones, but he can not attend too many. Here is my secret: keep it well! A consultation of doctors was called together on Friday, May the twenty-eighth, doctors never known to fail in their prognostications. They have announced that on Monday, june the sixteenth, the Class of Fifteen must die. Had I known what a commotion you would raise, and how badly

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1 6 TH E LOTUS First-The Senior seats in the classroom. May they be as fond of them as we have been this year. Let every member show his grati- tude for the gift by being promptly in his seat each morning. Second-The LoTUs is in a very unusual financial condition. The work, the worry, and the glory are now in other hands. Perhaps the most valuable of all this list will be found to be the Senicr Dramatics. Nineteen Fifteen has enjoyed the excitement of tits and jigs from two of our members. How the list lengthens. Next comes Senior privileges-with Miss Lodges permission-too well understood to be detailed. ' Seziicr dignity is always handed over to the new-made lords of the schocl world. Vfe are afraid that this will be a strain upon the nerves and muscles of the gay and debonair Middlers, but all hope they will rise to the occasion, as they sometimes can. Last comes the one thing hard for us to part with. To our suc- cessors we must give our course in Senior Geometry: and let me say that geometry is a study where you learn that lots of things that you once knew are not so. If Class Sixteen gains the profit and the inspirations we have found in the little classroom with Professor Craw- ford, this will be their most precious possession, as it has been ours, as it is the one we are most loath to leave. Beside these enforced gifts, we leave not of necessity, but of our own free will, our blessing and a pledge of friendship from henceforth. All the rest and residue of our property, whatsoever of what nature, kind and quality soever it may be, and not hereinbefore dis- posed of fafter paying our debts and funeral expensesl, we give and bequeath to the faculty for its use and benefit absolutely. If they see tit, they may use the knowledge and startling information we have given them at whatsoever times we may have written quizzes and ex- aminations, in the education of our younger fellow students. This latter matter is, however, entirely at their discretion. And we do hereby constitute and appoint the said faculty sole executors of this our last will and testament. In Witness Whereof, we, the Class of Nineteen-Fifteen, the tes- tators, have to this our will, written on one sheet of parchment, set our hand and seal, this fourteenth day of -Tune, Anno Domini, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. Ivy M. Hudson and Margaret H. Parvis. Stockings, said the clerk, yes, ma'am, what number do you wear ? What number? snapped Venus, why, two of course: what do you think I am, a centipede P -Er.