LaGrange College - Quadrangle Yearbook (Lagrange, GA)

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THE QUADRANGLE Nineleen-Eighteen Senior Will STATE OF GEORGIA, County of Troup. SCttflUl All Mttl bg aJljrse llresentB, That we, the Senior Class of 1918, of LaGrange College, in said state and county, being in possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby ex- pressly revoking any will that may have been made by us heretofore. ITEM 1 . To Miss Davies, our honored president, to whom we are deeply indebted for the interest she has continually manifested in us, we do bequeath to be held by her in trust, for the benefit of less well-behaved Seniors, our soft voices, gentle manners, and our sweet dispositions. ITEM 2. To Miss Winslow, our dean, who has always been so ready and willing with her help and advice, we bequeath a perfect system of Student Government which, when assumed by the Student Body, is guaranteed to give the dean not the slightest care or uneasiness. ITEM 3. To Mr. Tague, we will enough of our youth to keep him from ever grow- ing old. We especially wish it to enable him to preserve that boyish glee and that man- ner of slapping his knee when amused, that he displayed at the circus and on similar occasions. ITEM 4. To the Faculty, we, mindful of their longsuffering and forbearance, be- queath the memories of our recitations — only. ITEM 5. We recommend our ability for sound reasoning and understanding to the Juniors and underclassmen, hoping and assuredly believing that unencumbered by these, we may be able to seek our fortunes in the fields of matrimony in case teaching should prove too strenuous an occupation. Item 6. To Louise Foster, Maud Harris bequeaths her dignity to be used at all executive meetings. To Laura Lee Satterfield and Evelyn Goggans, her wonderful gym ability to be used only when all efforts toward cutting fail. Item 7. To Josephine Haley, O ' Lura Campbell leaves her quiet and demure manner and to the next librarian, her presence in the library. ITEM 8. To Emily Allen, Mary Connally wills her winning smile and charming grace. To Alma Murphy, her extensive correspondence from Somewhere in France, together with her various souvenirs, pictures, etc. ITEM 9. To Miss Gane, Nellie Humber leaves her babyish ways and the prefix Little to be attached to her name. To Gus Childs, her little white shoes to be worn on all dress occasions. ITEM 1 0. To Evelyn Smith, her roommate, Harriet Rains wills and bequeaths her ready tongue and extensive conversational powers. To Lillian Van Devender, her treasured pictures fof which Lillian has always entertained such admiration.

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Nineteen-Eighteen THE QUADRANGLE where many of our happiest hours had been spent. Girls were strolling everywhere as of yore, but could I believe my eyes, were those really men who were walking about as if they, too, belonged there? It was hard to believe that LaGrange which was formerly most emphatically a college for young women, where the very occasional man was viewed with extreme interest, now admitted men into its academic halls. I was feeling some- what saddened to think that every thing was completely changed since my day, and I knew nobody among all those groups, when suddenly a woman came out of one building and walked across to another. There was something hauntingly familiar about her size and carriage and I spent the next few seconds in trying to remember where I had known that walk. When I next looked through the instrument, I found myself gazing into a large, splendidly equipped gymnasium. The class had assembled and was waiting for orders. I naturally looked for the person who was to issue the commands. There on a raised platform at one end of the room stood the same person who had so greatly inter- ested me as she crossed the campus. She was clad in bloomers and middy which made her size more noticeable than it had been on the campus. The class came to position and I followed her as she led them through the easy graceful motions of a dance step. It seemed to me that I could almost hear that command of my gym days given so briskly and executed so charmingly by Miss Potter — Step-Bend-Step- Point ! With this memory a thousand others came rushing back and I marveled at my stupidity in not recog- nizing Mary Lizzie Wright before. After a long sigh, I turned to Mr. Edison to express my wonder at this marvelous invention and to thank him for the pleasure he had given me in thus affording me the sight of my classmates and flooding my mind with delightful reminiscences of my college days, when the door burst open and Ila rushed in exclaiming, For goodness sake, Jennie Mae, get up. It ' s five minutes ' til breakfast. — Jennie Mae Erwin, ' 18.

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Nineteen-Eighteen THE QUADRANGLE ITEM 1 I . To Lois Hall and Ila Clark, Jennie Mae Erwin wills and bequeaths and leaves her love, esteem, affection and devotion, said riches to be divided equally, provided the division can be made without the usual bayonet charge, sometimes in evidence on the Third Floor Hawkes. ITEM 12. To Sara Ruth Henderson, Mary Kate Clements wills her extra amount of hair to be used every day and on special occasions. To Lois Hall, her ability to speak English worthy of a Senior to take the place of Little Lois ' s delightful baby prattle of her Junior year. ITEM 1 3. To anyone needing a rest, Clara Evans wills her readiness to take any known disease. To Marie Clay, her letters from Auburn, provided they do not come too often. ITEM 1 4. To Dorothy Bledsoe, Mary Lizzie Wright wills a box of hairpins to pin up stray curls. ITEM 15. To Murrell Roach, Mardel Taylor wills her slothfulness, and her ex- tensive knowledge of big words to be used on date nights. Item 1 6. To Ruth Taylor and Rebie Haley, Frances Black wills her place in the church choir, as it will take two to fill the vacant space. Item 1 7. To Miss Potter, Duane Campbell wills her front seat at vaudeville and also at church, hoping that she will thoroughly enjoy their advantages. ITEM 1 8. We hereby appoint the Eakes twins as our executors, and desire that our bequests be made properly and in order. Signed this day in our presence and by our hands, THE CLASS OF 1918. Witness: HARVEY Reed, Jr. Tom Carter