Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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. .LL P DDID Organized athletics were made part of the School life and the teams turned out were outstanding. The Princeton teams were largely recruited from the School and Yale and other colleges had a fair quota of its great athletes. Most of the School publications, the musical clubs, the drama and the proms had their beginnings in this period. There were over 300 boys in the School and twenty-two masters. In 1899 Dr. Mackenzie resigned and the Trustees elected as his successor the Rev. Dr. Simon Iohn McPherson, who carried on the School for twenty years. The gymnasium was built in 1902. Another form was added to the four that had under Dr. Mackenzie made up the School. The tooth Anni- versary was the occasion of a large gathering of alumni who were warmly welcomed under Dr. McPherson. The School Council was established, the curriculum was modernized to meet the increased college requirements. The affection of the boys for Dr. McPherson is shown by the title of the King that they gave him. He carried the School successfully through the Great War, but so overtaxed his strength by his care of the boys during the influenza epidemic in 1918 that he died at the beginning of the next year. The School now numbered over 400 and the faculty thirty-nine. The Alumni offered their assistance in the election of Dr. McPhers0n's successor and it was largely through their efforts that Dr. Mather A. Abbott was chosen. He came to the School in the fall of 1919 and the efforts of his vigorous personality and strenuous energy were soon appar- ent. Provision was made for Alumni Trustees and the Board became entirely composed of such members. A survey of the School by the Harvard department of education was made and its recommendations were adopted. The head master was given power commensurate with his responsibility. The curriculum was again modernized and new departments of study were added. The School had outgrown its equipment and new buildings were a necessity, indeed the plant was almost doubled by the erection of the War Memorial Building for the Lower School, a new recitation build- ing, two new dormitories, a perfectly equipped Infirmary, and a Library. A modern medical department, a new preceptorial system, and the Law- renceville Fathers' Association, to keep the parents in touch with their sons, were among the measures introduced or adopted by Dr. Abbott. There were during his administration twelve masters who had served the School twenty-five years or more and a pension system was established for the masters who became emeriti at the age of sixty-five. The School had fifty- six masters, and boys numbered well over 500. The scholarship of the Fifteen 4

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,LL I3 DDIDA at forms, and an able and permanent faculty engaged. Until this period, teaching had not been a profession and few of the faculty had stayed more than a few years. The School grew amazingly. l MATHER A. Amsorr, LITT.D.-HEAD MASTR IQIQ-I934 Fourteen

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QOLL I3 IDDIIDA School improved greatly and with this the success in athletics and other extra-curricular activities brought the largest enrollment the School had had. Dr. tAbbott's Whole teaching and life was a fight for righteousness into which he brought all Who had any contact with him. His sudden death in the midst of his activities in May 1934, was most untimely. The Trustees elected as his successor Mr. Allan V. Heely, a graduate of Andover and Yale. He had studied at Oxford and had been for some years assistant dean in charge of admissions at Andover. He took up his duties in November 1934, and has guided with enthusiasm the plans for the celebration of the 125th Anniversary in May 1935. n wmmmq .mfr num, ,max I i, . -.-H CLASSICAL F- COMMERICAL HIGH SCHOOL l -1' OLD SCHOOL AND VILLAGE LINE 3 I LEGEND 'S i ,, Qfhe .rclvnal room building naw Ure laborafory E M 7 Qjrne big house naw Phe Hamill mme 5' sns c B A 4. L Ia: - Qfhe Br-ear-ley house naw the Wayside 3 .,'I' Qriause maved la Ga:-dan Ava an-ass R R A o ST QGymn.4sium naw Business Iflanaqers Officers 1 F o o 1' 5 A L L E, ' 5'4 ' 'U' mvspmfo wvum omscriou 3 l? vin L mr n M' m- of F ' 5 '- D , .armswsnorv as acr 944 'g Slzrpcuvnt PM-cup s 1' v ilf xi App.-M .Wu Mhame mu Q' E H I' - L il. .. THE MERSHON FARM FlELD l E L ' 1 .fm I . me m s Q UNL L frff,,,.,4 i hm ,Md ' I ' . .... zum: H I l . . f'Q'f'f.'Z C'f.'L'?....!' II, .ymfmf ii E . Q Y ' A Q maven anfggfra I Q and mmf. E f I - Q unmlnq I 1-wars v , G f fq y if - V - - . . J . , . - l THE GREAT' ROAD Ol? KINGS HIGHWAY IE' ,lil Ill Ian' .. lg! Fl ISI 'ffl Sixteen LAWRENCEVILLE NJ H I f and duyuul mm