Denton High School - Bronco Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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A joy, he,” too, can help bestow. There' cne within our class ro strange I scarcely know how year may change; Hla thoughts are great and great hi alms, Increasing dally in hi fume Till in a Senate chair he'll sit And live on Uncle Sam a bit. Hut in his quiet hours of rest Grave Elbert will his time Invest Revising Webster's bulky mass. He’s still a bachelor, alas! But now alas, the veil descends. And all my sibyl musing ends; E'er e'en one fleeting glimpse I gain Of that one future that I fain Would read the clearest—’tls my own— The spells Is broken, fancy’s flown. My thoughts revert to tasks undone Of Trig, and Virgil yet to learn. FINIS. A Senior, E. L. W. CLASS WILL Know all men by these presents, that we, the Senior class of 1905, of the county of Denton, of the State of Texas, being in good health, and of sound and disposing niind and memory, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills by us at any time heretofore made. First. To the Junior Class as a body we hereby l.equeath our class-room In the lower left-hand corner of the school-building. Second. Wg also leave to you those yard-sticks and erasers which you purchased with your good ducats, and of which we have mad good use. Third. Also, to the girls of the Junior class, we hand down the Senior girls' exceptional talent in the noble profession of note-writing Fourth. To the boys of the Junior class we bequeath the special privilege of sitting on the front seats at recitation, carefully placed at six-foot intervals; also, the privilege of stoking the Are when the janitor is busy elsewhere. Fifth. Be It written that Claude Minter has reluctantly vacated the office of class angel; this office we leave to Horace Witherspoon. We are certain, however, that none, not even Horace, can give such huge satisfaction in that capacity as did Claude. .'ll

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TWENTY YEARS HENCE Tw: s Tr.u: d y-«ve. the clo.k showed nine. The biecze was chill, the fire was fine— All Freshmen were then sound asleep. A Senior lonely vigils keep. You ask what forces are combined To banish slumber from my mind? Thoughts of the future of my friends. Of what each dees, and where Fate sends — ngtge my thoughts—bid me express What Fate shall bring—what happiness. And down the vista of the years Cl-ude Minter's futuie, first appeals: He d .veils where Nature spreads her charms. She ioid l lm In her verd°nt arms For aim. she tunrs her sweetest lyre The soothing accents of her choir. Imbued with perfect harmony Surrounds his soul with melody. Could I but bid the curtain rise That tells the future from our eyes. True, good and wise, with gentle art Our Johnle Mae will play her part— Both Queen of hearts and Queen of home. With friendly smile for all who come Then Clifford, in the future see. Freni poet's troubles not quite free; But with his pm and pretty wife To smooth the rugged road of life— And many friends with words sincere. To bless his lot from year to year— Few are the Ills that do beset And short bis moments of regret. Tom, quite annulling natural law's An “Gobbo. wins immense applause. Mattie follows her natural bent Becomes a college president. I see Leclle, so sweet of face An honor to the human race- -Gentle of heart and pure In life !n virtue rich—a teacher's wife. No tongue my rapture could express No measure bound my happiness When I see Grace, dear, gentle lass (Whose lovely graces none surpass) Become a preacher’s wife Offering her help in life's great strife Then Anna wins a lawyer's fees,— Has won the highest of degre-s What though she labor long and hard Contentment brings a sweet reward. A boon that Tame will always know

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Sixth. Mattie Collins hahs relinquished the class grumbler-ship in favor of Margery Ballard. Seventh. We do hereby bequeath to Carroll Garrison the office of Sleeping Beauty of the Senior Class. Tom Harrison has no more use for the title. Eighth. To the Juniors we leave our class dignity. We need not give any directions concerning this legacy, for you will not be permitted to misuse or lose it. Lastly, we bequeath to you Mr. Masters. He was here when we found him. There is a legend that there was a time when he was not here, but it Is not authen- tic. We take it that he belongs here. We leave him to you. Take him. Honor and obey him, that thy days may te short in the school that thy evil genius gave unto thee. We do hereby appoint Dick Ledbetter as sole ex-ecuror of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we the Senior class of 1905 ha : hereunto set our hands this 19th day of May, 19c5 A. D.. in the presence of W. M. Tayor and J J. McCook, who attest the same at our request SENIOR CLASS OF 1905. A FAREWELL Our schcol-davs ere over. The time to which we have looked forward so long has come—graduation day Some of us. seeking still better equipment for our life work, may attend college; others may gain further education In the school of experience. But we shall never again be schoolgirls and schoolboys. The little class that has held together for so long stands at the parting of the ways. And yet. as we look back over the path we have Ju t ascended, we realize that we were not always a little class. But as the path grew steeper and rougher, our comrades deserted one by one. Some, indeed, were governed by circumstances over which they had no con- trol. Others were content to straggle off and dwell ly Looking backward, we can see, too. that we did no always take the eislest way. Some few of our trials w-might have avoided. But If we were to live our schoo' diys over again, would our course be materially dlffe ent? The class-room—our teachers—thefamlliar faces of our class-mates—all will be remembered In times when school-days are a thing of the long past. The hard work. —yes, the monoty—will be forgotten in the recollection of incidents that lightened them. They are already so nearly forgotten that almost with reluctance do we leave the High School, the kindly guide that can lead us now no further up the heights of learning and experience 32