North Carolina School for the Deaf - Clock Tower Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

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CL ASS) OL WN LINEAL LEN TL Te is eo Blackstone, and, we therefore, adopt the short form: NOW, therefore, in consideration of the premises and of the good which we have received from this school and which we hope others may realize, and the good they may attain, we do hereby give, grant, alien and convey to this schvol in fee simple and forever, this tree, to be planted on the classic soil of the North Carolina Schocl for the Deaf. We hope and believe that under the kind nurture which we can give it, which we pledge, as well as that which we believe it will receive from those who come after us, it will grow, like the grain of mustard seed, into a great and powerful tree, under whose shades many songs will be sung, many aspirations will be born, many noble purposes formed and many pledges made. We attach but few conditions to this conveyance but we would like it to be understood that this tree, which we hope will become a monarch of these delightful grounds shall receive the loving care and watchfulness of all people as well as the jealous attention of the faculty and student body of this institution. When the melancholy days have come,as they will about once in twelve months, and the gorgeous robe of autumn will enshroud this tree, as it does all trees of the forest, let not your affection for it fade with the leaf; but like the tender vine that climbs the mighty oak of the moun- tain, when the oak is.torn asunder with the storms of life and laid low by their irresistible forces, still clings around it with .caressing tenderness to bind up its scattered boughs ;so if troubles should come and this, our dedication, should meet the storms of enemies or the cavil of ingrates, (18)

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CASS COAUN EN LAA NOR LAT HEN Indenture of Adoption. Written for the Class. State of North Carolina: In the High Court. County of Burke: of Apveals. To the good people of North Carolina and all others who wish to encourage the shades of charity and intellect- ual improvement from the burning sunshine of vice, ig- norance and affliction: Whereas, the undersigned, realizing the exposure of so many of our citizens to the scorching rays and blighting effects of ignorance and the dire calamity of affliction, and wishing to symbolize our earnest desire for relief therefrom; and further recognizing the beautiful tradi- tion of planting and maintaining upon the historic ground of this Institution, a tree, wish to perpetuate the same: NOW, therefore, know all of said people, above enu- merated, that in execution of the aforesaid purpose and desire and in perpetuation of such sentiment which we think gives expression fitly to it, we have got busy and have gone into the primeval forest and from the beauti- ful plantings of the lavish hand of nature have selected this promising specimen from its midst. Lawyers tell us, (and therefore it must be true), that a growing tree is a part of the realty and, therefore, we deduced that is must be real estate and requires all the sol- emnity of a deed to properly convey it. But we gather from the platform of the Progressives, which we think has been endorsed by the Suffrage movement, that short forms will now suffice for the old forms prescribed in thé days of (17)

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Bere Orr NEL IN Jee Beto ING Pel Ee LN then let the loving and tender hands of those who adorn this institution fling around it that caressing tenderness and shield it from all its troubles. In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, graduating class of 1915, have hereunto set our hands and seals. This the twenty-seventh day of May, 1915. Everett Brown (Seal) Willie Benfield, Josie Durham, Alice Hardin Jennie Jones, Elizabeth Julian, Myrtle Stockton, (19)