Davenport College - Galax Yearbook (Lenoir, NC)

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better see the girls who go down town. Item 10. To Misses Clark and McNutt, we give ten hours every day to be spent in each other ' s company. Item 11. To the Faculty of Davenport College, we will and bequeath our best wishes and a thousand thanks for the valuable instruction, which they have given us. Item 12. We hereby appoint Mr. W. E. Shell and Prof. J. B. Craven joint executors of this our last will and testa- ment. Said executors to draw on Mr. J. W. Self for all nec- essary funds for the execution of the will. In testamony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this the second day of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten. (Signed) SENIOR CLASS.

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Will and Testament of Senior Class We the Class of 1910 of Davenport College, feeling that we have almost completed our work at this school, and de- siring that our memory should remain fresh in the hearts of our teachers and school mates, do hereby make and publish this, our last will and testament, as follows: First, we desire that the trustees of this institution will erect to our memory, a new building, to be situated on the east side of the present structure, and be ready for use by the first day of September, 1910. And as to the disposal of our college possessions, we will and bequeath them as follows: Item 1. To the Junior Class we will and bequeath our dignity and the numerous privileges we have enjoyed during the past year, hoping that they may not grow stoop-shuldered from bearing the burden of so many said priviliges. Item 2. To Dr. Weaver we gratefully bequeath all our will power, to be distributed among the girls of next year, who may chance to have La Grippe. Item 3. To Messrs. Durham and Craven we will and be- queath the privilege of mutually sharing the Superintedency of Davenport Sunday school. Item 4. To the Latin students we bequeath all our ponies, on condition that Miss Parker never finds it out, and hope that they may still be of service, though they have grown lame from over-work. Item 5. To Mr. Durham we will pen, ink, paper, enve- lope and stamps, for the purpose of writing to Mr. Went- worth, concerning certain mistakes in Analytics and Geom- etry. Item 6. To the Sophomores, we bequeath the sincere wish that they may entertain the Seniors of 1911 as well as that class, while Juniors entertained us. Item 7. To Prof. Mountford we will and bequeath a Harmony Class, that cawn ' t ever be sick. Item 8. To Gus we will and bequeath Stracted ' s slip- pers, for his wife Liza, with the hearty wish that she will wear them as long as Stracted has. Item 9. To each member of the board of trustees, we will and bequeath a magnifying glass, so that they may

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