Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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26 MIRAGE CLASS WILL LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF CLASS '17 OF LANCASTER HIGH SCHOOL. We, the Seniors of Class 1917, Lancaster High School, county of Fairfield, and StaU of Ohio, being of sound mind and disposing memory and understanding do make, pub- lish and declare this our last will and test- ament, hereby revoking all former wills and bequests of whatever nature made by us at any time heretofore. Item 1. We bequeath to each member of our loving and idolized faculty a clus- ter of that aromatic shrub—rosemary for rememberance of us. Item 2. We give, devise and bequeath to the Freshmen Class, a new school build- ing and hope that they will continue thru- out their irksome days the spirit with which the building was secured; also, all the jour- neys homeward after delinquent grade cards. For information concerning the tricks of this trade, we refer them to Ger- ald Hewetson or John Silbaugh. And we leave to them a copy of D. M. Hickson’s tried and true rules which follow: 1. When you come to school, come in person and get here on time. You must economize on account of the war, and yel- low paper pads are much more expensive than white ones, even though they are sometimes less desirable. 2. Go to class once in a while, it reliev- es the tedium and helps to escape work and to pass away the time between 8 and 4:03. 3. As soon as you arrive, pick out a girl and then take her to everything. (They like it?) 4. If you want to say anything dove- like, don’t tell her she is pigeon-toed! Finally: Don’t stay away from church, even if beds are not furnished. The preach- er expects you! We do advise that these rules be follow- ed, for it is frequently quoted that “an ounce of prevention is better than an hour of period eleven.’’ Item 3. To the Sophomores we be- queath the supreme right of class spreads, in whatever manner or under whatever name they may think best, and we sincere- ly hope that they will receive as much pleasure from their functions as has been received by members of the Senior Class from their frequent parties, hay-rides, sleigh-rides and “Hot Dog’’ roasts during the past year. We gladly will to them the best and most comfortable seats at the fre- quent entertainments, provided only that they pay the required admission. With en- viable regret we leave to them the rather unpleasant and suddenly sick feeling which is felt about every six weeks when mother answers the telephone and hears a few re- liable reports about her delinquent son. If you desire further knowledge, see Wright Amerine. We also impart to them a ray of hope that they will enjoy the frequent chapel exercises of next year as much as we have the long tedious ones of this year. Item 4. To the Juniors we give and be- queath the Senior Dignity, which we should have had, but didn’t, for Miss Reasoner continually assured us that we acted worse than Freshmen; to them also we leave per- haps the greatest item of our will—our standard! and we direct that it shall be maintained in the same High Degree in which we have placed it; we bequeath to them our student government and hope that they will carry it forward to such a success that the cause of its origin will dis- appear; and we will to them Robert Giesy’s book entitled “Common Sense Physics”, which, although rare, delicate and contain- ed in a few pages, may with care be stret- ched over an entire year. Item 5. To Mr. Thomas we bequeath a simplified, modernized, standardized, un- debatable German Grammar. Item 6. To Donald Hunter. Claude Jewell, and Pats Pairan, we will the arts and devises for framing “white slip” ex- cuses, now held by Harry McClanahan, Ralph Brenner and Walter Noles. These have reduced the practice to such a condi- tion that it is easier to skip than to go t'