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To the Faculty we bequeath our not inconsiderable amount of Intellectual Life Insurance, since they have usually recognized this policy to the exclusion of those we have held in the Travellers and Social Life Insurance. We believe in future compensation for the premiums paid to the latter and in an eventual adjustment of all claims. . To the same bequest we add a long distance telephone company, which wiH establish a better connection between them and the student body. To various preparatory schools throughout the country, we give certifcates in the National Bank of Knowledge. These are more valuable than certificates in private banks, because the National Bank submits to examination. To the three remaining classes we bequeath our wealth of Senior expressions, to be used with due discretion as we have always done. To the President, we leave respectfully and lovingly our most valuable possession-our stock in the elevated railway of noble life. Its rails are welded from the iron of faithful effort and the steel of courage and honor. It runs parlor cars for the few, day coaches for the majority, and brings the stragglers in the slow freight. Yet -all who travel it arrive eventually at the terminus of realized ideals-a kind of happy hunting ground for all the joys and virtues. To all the classes jointly we leave the heirlooms received from our predecessors love, for our Alma Mater, faith in her power to fit us unfailingly and worthily for the sterner demands of the future, and the ideal of serious effort, of seeking earnestly, yet serenely, the highest and best which the college offers-the true nobleness which shall be our greatest attainment. Signed and sealed this day, June 15, 1904. Class of 1904. 204