Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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Rabbi, Hungry and others, would furnish a fit subject for an epic poem. Upon our return to the Upper we decided to let Griggs and Mackenzie go, so we unlocked the door of the room in which they were confined, undid their bonds and allowed them to issue forth into the arms of their weeping friends. All that day was a glorious holiday, and at two o'clock on Friday we assembled in memorial to talk it over with the masters. For two hours or more the conflict raged 5 one by one our undiscovered nestors rose and distinguished themselves. Rabbi and Monk, George Hull, MacMurray, Professor Riston, Duffield, the 'tlittle minister, and Augur all belched fourth upon the faculty a writhering and irresistable fire of argument. Ninety-nine was also in evidence. Griggs arose and proved Qto the facultyj that he had been in fourteen separate places simultaneously. Mouser gave his views on Mr. Swan. At length, having been informed that we were talking in a circle, which, by the way, as Froggy i' afterward remarked to Mr. Hull, must be attributed to force of habitacquired in the Third Form, we dispersed. Later we were informed that our Easter vacation was to be curtailed by ,W a day and a half, and the great class scrap H was over. - - fru- After so much excitement, however, we found that peace and quiet 42, , K , was no longer agreeable, so Windv,' Tucker and Lester Kafer per- , . - suaded the class to dabble in village politics at the coming primary -M' X X 7 elections. We decided to run our old friend Ort through for constable. Linh if 3. Cards were printed informing those into whose hands they might fall that L- AQ XX Oliver was the choice of the people, a great parade was given, with X' if-Sir ' a band and beautiful transparencies. But alas! It was in vain. Had 44 we but been able to vote the result might have been different, but what :Fm ' .x 1 - could we expect with only Ristow to represent us at the polls? f i The next thing that happened was that momentous class meeting in which the hue shapes of all the girls showed off to such great advantage 2-f'- i 1 fl on the stage. 'tThalie Brown and Alice Smith were the belles of Wi? I the evening. The elections were too numerous to mention, but it may f' X not be amiss to remind you of a few : Legs Argersinger, our president, 21

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proclaniations, the work of preparation which lasted far into the night,-all are familiar. The following morning, long ere the first gray streaks of dawn had shot the horizon, a dark and silent band of chosen men issued from a window in the rear of the Upper, dispersed in every direction. Some were armed with paint and brushes, some with paste and proclamations, some with banners ready to be strung up in every available spot. And when the sun rose, lo what a sight! Such an array of painted numerals of swinging banners, and of plastered paper as greeted the sleepy eyes of the Waking sons of ,QQ will never be seen again in the history of the school. About seven o'clock the youngsters began to make little disturbances in the various houses, but all that had been long ago foreseen, and at every pistol shot an angry army issued from the Upper, splashed 1 5 Ac, 3 lit lid illllililiiidwi it with paint and paste, and rushed down upon the recreant house. Griswold iirst fell victim to' our attacks, next the Cleve, and be it said to Mr. Gulick's credit that he was the only master in the school who didn't get routed. 4 ' By and by the foe began to rally, and an attempt was made to destroy the work of the Banner Corn- mittee on the bath-house. But Dutch Mouserf' Froggy Boynton, Killarney Armstrong and the others who constituted that organization were not to be so easily balked and a struggle ensued upon the roof in the course of which not a few rolled off onto the ground. Gradually, however, both classes arrived upon the scene in full strength, and a succession of rushes followed in which the valiant deeds of Monk H 20

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was unanimously elected most popular man, Doctor Adams, the class medical adviser, was chosen as the possessor of the best build. Puppet Hoyt who narrowly missed being elected handsome man was given social success instead. Harry Hunt was voted to be the man with by all odds the biggest pull. The evening passed and we all had a good time. The next morning we were requested to remain after chapel-as indeed we always are when we have had a good time. There we were informed that since we had scratched some of the woodwork in the audi- P, W0 ',. X Q Wi fx,,lL yi f f' tx . -LlV:Z i T ' i 3' ' nl A ll i .ff ' :A- J, be ,- , . 1 gg will I 'ij 1 I .JW I af R,-L gum , -f'1 Qi ' if K R355 T torium we would be required to pay for it, and that if it was found upon examination that the injured furniture could not be repaired, in accordance with the ancient custom, to pay for a dozen new auditoriums, so that in case we smash any more there would always be one on hand. A committe was then sent by the class to examine the woodwork, who, by resorting to opera glasses, succeeded in dis- covering a faint mark upon one of the rear seats. We were also given to understand that the blowing up of the Maine by a torpedo was insigniicant in comparison to the attacks made upon the school seal with a similar weapon. In vain we pleaded that it wasnlt our fault if we missed Cooper's head 3 all our efforts were of no avail, and a dozen new school seats were added to the bill, which with the thirty five dollars for removing numerals from the back stops and elghty dollars more for b1OlsE11 dining room windows had now assumed alarming proportions The next thing that served to break the monotony if such a 1 , T Fi! ' 4 ' T ' X . . . . . . s ,Q f . 4 xy ' - 1 X jf F CW ' ' y ' Y . , . rapid succession of events can be called monotonous, was a raid on the pantry, in which three strings of bananas, seventeen boxes of cocoa, and three hundred oranges, besides brandied peached, crackers, sherry, etc., galore, were smuggled upstairs and stored safely under window-seats and in closets. Unfortunately the pantry door and window-grating suffered somewhat in the fray. It is needless to say that a new door and window, besides food enough to stock an arctic expedition, were added to the bill, which waxed greater than ever, 22 l