Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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But come, sound the bugle, and let us gather once more beneath the old banner. Let us gaze back together upon the dim vista of the past, flecked with the light and shade of happiness and trouble. Let us muse upon the treasured associations which it has imprinted so indelibly upon our hearts and lives. And as we grasp one another for the last time by the hand, let us each seek in the eyes of his friend a deep and responsive acknowledgement of the common bond which has made us all one for old ninety-eight. -P Oh! how merciless have been the ravages of Father Time. Brush aside the dust from your memory, and let me recall to you some of the old names, once so familiar. There was Uty, our president during those days of happy oblivion in the First Form. There were Nailer H Trask, Slush Holbrook and Dennis H Flanagan, whose brogue appeared to such advantage in the Ravings of John McCulloch in the Mad-house or the adventures of Mrs. Moriarityf' Prominent in our memory of the Second Form are jonesie De Saulles, Harry Long, and the immortal 4' Ferdinand Pinney Earle, Ir., who is now in Paris, studying art. But, after all, we remember those iirst two years of our life at Lawrenceville, as little more than a long and careful preparation for the greater events which followed. As crude ore, by the successive pro- cesses of crushing, snielting, and blasting, approaches nearer and nearer to iron, so did we, during this time, undergo a process of steady development. We learned our capabilities 5 we found that reliance upon ninety- eight was not ill placed. And when the time for action finally came, we had required the temper and polish ofa Damascus blade. A word will serve to recall the events of the Third Form year, especially that most momentous event of all, our little czjfaire cz h01znezz1' with '97, How it brought the class together l It is all as vivid as though it had happened yesterday. The rush in front of the Kennedy, the melee at night, the valiant deeds of Dutch Mouser on the roof of memorial,-all have become a part of Lawrenceville history. Arrott left us, intiicting a severe loss upon our base ball team. There were others, too, who never reached the upper. Chappie Drake, for instance, whose bland face always wore a genial smile, till some one spoke of his 16

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barrel legs, and Duck Delano, chappieis boon companions, who left school for breaking too much crockery in the Griswold House. At length, however, the Summer of 1897 passed away, and, on the rrth of September, we piled out of Ortis stages, and stepped upon the esplanade of the Upper House with a thrill of joy as we realized that we were monarchs of all we surveyed. And then came the handshaking with everybody, the arrangement of seating in the dining-room, the trips to the village to get matches and lamp chimneys, the decision not to unpack till to-morrow-a tofmorrow which did not arrive until a week later-the constant talking over the foot ball prospects, and innumerable other things which we all remember. Who can describe the pleasures of those first few days. After we had grown somewhat accustomed to our surroundings, we sought amusement in the Fresh- men, and, truly, we were not disappointed, for a more versatile crowd could scarcely have been made to order. Cooper 'Hoyt coo-cooed for us, jerk Smith sang for us on the steps of the Lodge, and as for Lady Harman, she did everything, from playing the piano with tacks for keys to rowing with toothpicks in a washbowl. And let me say in connection with this last accomplishment of the Lady's, that she holds the honorable distinction of being captain of the crew. Had Harry Hunt been here at the time of her election, however, the result might have been different. It's certainly too bad, Harry, that you didn't come ' sooner. ff' N - About this time we took that step which placed f' 5 Z' 7 our name in letters of fire above those of all our prede- If QT, A I D -. cessors. Clearly recognizing that, in its present state, ', 'xi lj, g the Honor System was glaringly incomplete, and that 1 5 4 S Zi' 5 h if ll , .A it failed to restrain the class at the very point where K 3 restraint was most needed, we made the momentous ' S 'f change of extending its jurisdiction to all recitations and 'S-M 1 examinations. 'UN D06 .KBS mf- -9-:00d'NHSi19' 17