Saginaw High School - Aurora Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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Nineteen-four. No more will their regrets include the pain of refusing our humble supplications, and we generously hope that the above mentioned refusals will occasion them no remorse. We leave to them, also, full permission to use, in the education of succeding classes, the knowledge and start- ling information they have gained, at whatsoever times we have written either quizzes or examinations. Item. We give and bequeath to the school, as a whole, our record, established and sustained during the joys and trials of the last four years. We leave it with you, but reserve the privilege of polishing it anew, now and then, as each of our members “scales Fame’s proud heights.” Item. We give and bequeath to our sister-class, that of Nineteen-six, all the wealth of love and blessings she may want. She seems to be able to get everything else without aid. so we will waste no time in giving to one who seems so very able to get. Item. “Tis sweeter to learn from the experience of others, than that others should learn from you.” Therefore to the Freshmen, we give, out of the fulness of our hearts and the depths of our experience, the following advice the accept- ance of which will lead them to glory, “flitch your wagon to a star,” and remember that, “nothing is impossible to industry.” We give them fair warning; numerous difficulties will con- front them, but we have noticed and remarked in them an abundance of the “heroic element” and we think it just to tell them, that we feel assured that one day Immortality will claim them as her own. Item. The subjoined lists will be recognized as entailed estates to which we do declare the Class of Nineteen-five the real and rightful possessors. First, the Senior seats in Chapel. Let the depth of grat- itude for this bequest, be measured by the strength of the chorus in that part of the Assembly Room, in which the above mentioned seats are situated. u

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CLASS WILL. Honorable Faculty and Friends: Nineteen four about to die salutes you! She publishes this before her death so that you may know her will and receive her gifts. First of all, there is a communication to make, startling we admit, but nevertheless true. Here is our secret! Guard it well! A consultation of doctors was called together on May eighteenth, doctors, whose prognostications were never known to fail. They have announced that on the night of June twenty-third, Nineteen-four must die. At present she complains of a lightness in the head caused by the encomiums and eulogies received during the past four years, and a heaviness in the heart and other organs caused by thoughts of parting and overfeasting respectively. Owing to these derangements, she may have been mistaken in her inventory, but what she thinks she has, she gives to you, meanwhile praying that you may not attribute her liber- ality to the fact that she can keep her goods no longer. We, the Class jf Nineteen-four being about to leave this scholastic sphere in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills, by us at any time heretofore made. As a parting favor, we especially beg that our funeral services be carried out with all the pomp and ceremony due to a Class, so distinguished as ours, and occupying such an exalted position. As to such estate, as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong arms and active intellects to give us, we do dispose of the same as follows, viz: Item. We give and bequeath to the Faculty restful nights, peaceful dreams and relief from the petitions of 13

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Next, our Senior privileges. Ah me! Too few and well understood to need enumeration. To these new-made lords of the school world, we also bequeath our Senior dignity. “May our mantle fall complete- on the gay and debonair Juniors; nevertheless we think they will find encouragement in the fact that “dignity increases more easily than it begins,” and we hope that they will rise to the occasion as they sometimes can. Though agreeing with Byron, that small thanks are still the market price of advice, we, nevertheless, with the interest of the Juniors at heart, recommend the following for consider- ation : Guard your banner well! Flaunt it not in the presence of mightier factions, lest you be despoiled of it. To our successors, also, we bequeath the Senior Horn. May it toot to their satisfaction, their several deeds of glory. How the list lengthens! Our beloved Session Room will also fall to their estate. We leave it to them freely; but certain of the memories which cling to it are ours to cherish and hold sacred to the Class of Nineteen-four. Lastly, we leave to the Juniors our course in American History, during which they will learn that many things, which they knew before are not so. Besides these enforced gifts, we leave, of our own free will, our blessing and a pledge of friendship from henceforth. All the rest and residue of our property, whatsoever and of what kind and quality soever it may be, not herein disposed of (after paying our debts and funeral expenses) we give and bequeath to our Principal for his use and benefit absolutely; and we constitute the said Principal sole executor of this our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we the class of Nineteen-four, the tes- tators, set our hand and seal this May twenty-third, Anno Domini, one thousand nine hundred four. 15 Agnes Murphy.