Dover High School - Doverian Yearbook (Dover, DE)

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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.

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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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DovER HIGH sCHooL I7 HONESTY-BEST POLICY. No, sir: I can't do it. I never have taken a dirty case since I have been practicing law, and I don't intend to begin now. But I tell you it means a cool thousand if you win, and I'll pay you hve hundred anyway. You'll never make a cent easier than you'll make this. UNO, sir: once and for all I tell you I can not, and I will not, plead a case that I know, even if I win, even if I can convince a jury in my favor, is as low and dirty as a case can be. VJell, then, good-dayg some time you will regret this. Good-day, sir. The speakers were Mr. George Burton and .lack Harmon, a very promising young lawyer. Mr. Burton had called on jack to take a case, which, after a very little investigation, ,lack found to be abso- lutely unfair to the other fellow. .lack also knew that Mr. Burton stood a good chance of winning the case because it was wealth against comparative poverty. Wheii Mr. Burton had left the office Jack began to consider his decision. He knew that this was a big case, and if won would mean a great deal to a young lawyer like himself. And surely he would win-everything was in his favor. He thought of Ethel Messick, the girl whom he had met while studying law in New York City. These thoughts almost made him change his decision, for with the fame that this case would bring would come, of course, better salary, and with a better salary he could ask Ethel to become his wifeg but he could not ask her to abondon her life of luxury for such an humble life as fortune compelled him to lead. No, he said, rising and pacing the door, I never have taken a dirty case, and I never will. I will not stoop so low as to sell my honor. Ethel shall marry a 'man' if she marries me. Mr. Burton had left Jacks office very angry, but not too much so to recognize the fact that he was playing the part of a scoundrel, and his conscience pricked him not a little. As he was riding on toward his home he began to wish he had never begun the case, but now that he had he could not possibly turn back. His respect for the young lawyer rose higher and higher, and when he remembered having told ,lack that the case, if won, would mean a thousand dollars, he began to wonder that the young lawyer had been able to refuse it, for, wealthy though he was, he himself would do almost anything for money. He decided to appease his conscience, if possible, by helping the young lawyer in some way. So when, a week later, -lack received a letter from the firm of Hall 81 Reed, in New York City, asking him if he desired a position,