He must not associate with one Jennie Dryenforth or her daughter, Rose Marie Knowlton. Should he do so, the estate goes to William H., Harold and Robert Dryenforth, who are named as executors.
The above-named executors will also share the estate in the event Robert St. George thoughtlessly dies before he reaches the given age.
The boy must be trained right from the start to shy at the wiles of women. If he must marry, he must not marry beneath him.
The will says:
“I particularly request my executors to thoughtfully and well guard my beloved son from women, and sensibly, that is, gradually, through no erratic extreme, to let him be informed and know the artful and parasitical nature of most of the unfortunate sex, and to care that he does not marry beneath him.”
The lad must keep his face between the covers of a book for a great portion of these twenty years. He will become a confirmed burner of the midnight oil. Here is the programme, duly mapped out in the will:
He must be prepared to enter high school at the age of fourteen.
At the age of eighteen he must be ready to enter Harvard, there to take a special course fitting him for Oxford University.
In the meantime, the boy must be taken to see one country in Europe each year.
As soon as he graduates from Oxford, the boy is to hasten back to these shores and to enter immediately the United States Military Academy, complete the course and serve the required time in the army.