Dover High School - Doverian Yearbook (Dover, DE)

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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,

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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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I8 THE LOTUS, and telling him to call within a week, he did not in the least suspect that Mr. Burton had been his benefactor. 'lf 21 Dlf PEI is Pls lYelcome back to New York, my boy, we are certainly proud of you and glad you belong to us, called out Mr. Hall's cheery voice, as ,lack entered the office one day about three years later, on his return from a XYestern city, where he had been conducting a big case, which he had won chiefly on his own merits. Thank you, sir: the welcome you give me is worth more to me than all the other praise I have gained. And now I have a surprise for you, we have decided that if you consent, the firm of Hall X Reed shall be changed to Hall, Reed 8: Harmon. Ch, Mr. Hall, stammered lack, this is too much. I-er-I- Now, now, you don't have to give an answer right this minute to that question, but to this one you must: Wlill you dine with us to- night ? .i, cf. .v. .-. ,y, -. . -t- ft- fr 4- fw is As That evening, when Jack was ushered into the drawing-room of Mr. Hall's hne Fifth Avenue residence, he was very cordially received by both Mr. and Mrs. Hall and their son, Harry. Later, in the midst of a conversation between the two young men, a step was heard on the stair and as a young girl stood in the doorway, Harry arose, saying: Come in, Cousin. Miss Messick, this is Mr. Har- mon, who is soon to be the junior partner in the firm of Hall iv Reed. At the double exclamation of Ethel-Jack, Harry exclaimed, W'hy -where-when did you two people ever meet? Ethel, why didn't you Rn tell me you knew him' Then, though Harry was only fifteen, he knew that Two's com-- pany, three's crowd, so he beat a hasty retreat and left the happy COUPIG 2110110 Anna M. Carter, 'I5. A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the sleeper runs while the sleeper sleeps. Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper carries the sleeper over the sleeper under the sleeper, until the sleeper which carries the sleeper, jum-ps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper on the sleeper, and there is no longer any sleep for the sleeper, sleeping in the sleeper on the sleeper. -EI. NOTICE TO JUNIORS. In case of fire, do not rung green material never burns.-EI.