South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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T HE C L A S S A N N U A L OF ' ti 7 7 office, we believe, is almost as important as the presidency itself, requiring an able-bodied person. Item: We bequeath one seat located six (6) inches west and four (-1) inches south of the teacher’s desk in A“ Room to be held down some competent member of ‘08. We constitute that said member shall be chosen by popular vote at the first general meeting held at the reference table, in point of afficiency for annoying or amusing, in any wav, shape or manner, the infant class of OS. Item : We do solemnly give and bequeath unto Mr. Westerson one-half (j j) box of fudge, accidently and unintentionally left by us in “A” room during Civics recitation, said parcel to revert to the class of 08 if said heir shall not desire same. Fourth: We do. by this, our Last Will, dispose of the tuition, education and instruction of our heirs, who shall be minors at and after our decease, during their minority, to the teachers of South High School, whose ability we. the wisest, wittiest, dearest and most beloved class that has or shall have departed, have tested to our entire satisfaction, and do hereby appoint them their guardians. Fifth: We do hereby make, constitute and appoint Professor A. X. Ozias, sole executor of this, our Last W ill and Testament. It is our sincerest desire that he may settle the estate as he may think best, and pay our debts without being compelled to account to the Probate or any other court, and we do hereby revoke all and every former will by us made. In testimony whereof. We, the Class of 0L the Testators, have. to this our Will, set our hand and seal, this 4th day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven. Our Hand. Seal This instrument was on the day of the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Testators, the Class of ’07, to be their Last Will and Testament, in our presence, who. at their request, have subscribed our names thereto as witnesses in their presence, and in the presence of each other. Witnesses: PIOUS AENEAS. Residing at Hotel de Styx; OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Residing at Avenue de Authors: PROFESSOR ARCHIMEDES, Residing at Eureka.

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(LASS WILL Iii I In NIIino of Caesar. Cicero, o|M rnicus and C‘ook, Anion. E, THE Class of June, 1907, of the South High School of Minneapolis, in the County of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, being of sound mind and memory, and considering the uncertainty of this frail and transitory life, do therefore make, ordain, publish and declare this to be our Last Will and Testament: First. We do direct that our funeral services shall he conducted by our friends well-wishers, the faculty, together with our executor, hereinafter named, only enjoining that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our situation in the school scale shall have merited. Second. After the payment of our funeral expenses and just debts, we give, devise and bequeath unto ‘08 all the property, real and personal, and effects of every name and nature, which we now have, may die possessed of, or may be entitled to. as herein described : Item : We do hereby dispose to ’08 of all the trophies, medals, and other paraphernalia and insignia won and acquired by the Boys Basket Ball Club of ’07, said honors to be divided equally and justly among the members of the team of ’08. Item: We do give and bequeath one hundred (100) shares in the Class Banner Pole, owned anti operated in conjunction with the Northwestern Telephone Company, directly in front of the Twenty-fourth street entrance, said shares to be divided equally and without discrimination among the qualified members of said class of ’08, to be held and possessed only while ’08 may defend these from ‘09. Item. We do also give unto Miss W atts, one automatic machine invented and designed for the purpose of picking bits of paper from the Hoor, especially during vacant periods, said instrument i eing obtained and patented by Prof. Lawrenzoo Lokin vnJer Patent No. 120,40 Third. We leave, besides the c, not of necessity, but of our own free will, the subjoined list of items: Item : We do hand down to ‘08 our Senior dignity. No doubt this is a severe strain upon gay Juniors, but we earnestly hope and ardently pray that they will rise to the occasion. Item : We do also bequeath to Miss Kerr, one up-to-date selfwinding and self-operated Talking Machine to relieve her of the duty of reprimanding the pupils for going out the wrong door, for their failure in demonstrating theorems, and various other performances which may necessitate action of said machine. This we do to promote the interests and welfare of our friends in the following classes. Item: We do hereby request that, at the discretion of Miss Watts, some worthy ‘08 member be chosen to the office of erasing boards, winding clocks and serving as general utility man. This

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soi r ii ii I ; h s c i; o o l F improvement in all lines of athletics during the past year at South High has been extraordinary. The membership of the Athletic Association for the first term was large and during the second term broke all the records in the history of the school. All this is directly traceable to the energy and hard work of the members of 07 and at the present time the Association is in a very flourishing condition. FOOT BALL OOTBALL received a great boost at South Side this year by the success of the team. Altho the championship was not won, the team showed such great improvement over the work of the previous year, and became so strong at the end of the season that every one was satisfied. The season opened with rather poor prospects, as only three veterans were back. However, we were fortunate enough to secure Jimmy Ellis for coach and prospects brightened. He soon had the material at hand whipped into shape, and everything was running smoothly, ready for the Fast High game. Unfortunately, about three days previous to this important contest the marks went in and about eight members of the team were debarred. That put everything up in the air and the East Side game was lost. I Jut the score was close and showed that the material and spirit were not lacking. With a week’s time to prepare for the North Side game, the coach and team worked hard blit all the regular players were not yet back in the team and the boys went into that game not yet over the demoralization caused by the wholesale barring of the good players the week before. The first few minutes of that game were disastrous and two touchdowns were scored before the boys really realized it. Then Kelly earned his sobriquet of “Touch-down” Kelly by placing the ball over North’s goal line. From that time on the team played like fiends and altho hopelessly outweighed, by their splendid defensive