Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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In the spring we distinguished ourselves by defeating '98 in track, just before we shook the dust of the Study Room from our feet to enter upon the responsibilities of Third Formers. Junior year was a series of triumphs for '99, Though the axe of the Faculty fell heavily upon us, still we kept up and added to our reputation by winning ten L's on the foot- ball team. Time slipped merrily on, past the Christmas holidays, until the Debate, and '98's reception to ,QQ after- wards. Two mornings later we awoke to find an invitation to a Ulawn fete, and in a few moments the great Rush was on. How Stiffy Reed and Dutch Muser struggled for '98's banner -on the roof of the bath-house, and what cheers greeted its downfall ! Then came those three fierce charges, with ,QQ further advanced after each. Then-the Faculty, and the Rush was over. But another victory was inscribed on '99's banner. Soon the spring slipped away, and after Jack Han- num and his colts had defeated '98 in baseball, we emerged from Memorial one afternoon to find that our three long years of early to bed and early to rise were over-that we were no longer underformers. The summer sped all too quickly away, until we again i xX ilirf- r KV V X ff X S T J ,'Q'.:K-.LQLZE-1'-f .J 00 Q0 ob 2, -f-fe ,yfff---3jj.QEfi.TgT7'!xTN 'C D : ' Z. Qf'If-Tiiil?52e?e O+ Q-on ep Ti' W -- lf--Safe an 1 D ,fi-Q. l 'A Q' R Mis 'Q if ,,., ff 'ee N, . g2L::22ff2T Q Se . if ' 14 xl '42 ,.f- ,QiuL,A ,515-als?-.1-f -, W! ' .gT.,f V E3 75 Ie ff -. 9 ,215 I- M V-.V -ff 2-!'f5I' '45 -,FZ . ff It, fiat. . - L T' A2 41 1-E i'3 2: ' K , ii ' W3 . 1:7145 I 'ii I. on x, 'X Q aft fi fa ass 1. 2 i .--f7jj,T! ' -es1f'Q'.T ' 5' ? ' J VDQOV iz V ff Af S ip '24, Z,- 4' - i? ' -fm 'I - ' VL, B' 'wif'-Z, i -: in an a '- ii WC S 1 is r if J ' T if a a y p If I l f ,,-3, 1 . Z found ourselves piled on top of Ort's stage, bound for five miles away from anywhere. On the road out several of us learned that for once something good came out of Trenton -for we caught up with a brewery wagon. The summer girl became but a memory as we stepped proudly on to the esplanade of I9

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and shiftings of the changing school life. From time to time we have been reinforced by recruits, some from '98, many from the outside world. Others, too, have left us to seek new fields and conquests in 1900, or have returned to the world whence they came. Through all this we have learned to be loyal and true to the class whose colors we wear so proudly, for her we have striven, that we might bring her honor and glory, until now we know that the name of old ,QQ will ever be famous while one of us shall live. But the curtain is about to fall on our work here, 'and soon our parts will be taken by others who succeed us. Then, before our life here is ended, let us once more go over it together, as we have so often done before, and recall the old scenes which are so dear to us. PK ' Pk P? 24 24 Pk lk 21 X 34 FK NVell do we remember those First Form days when, under the leadership of Buck, now so famous elsewhere, we started upon our career. VVe.were surprised, we admit, that we did not attract more atten- tion as a class, though this lack of courtesy was atoned for, in a measure, by the attentions we received as individuals and Freshmen. It was not till we became Second Formers, when we cast off the hated title of I' fresh, when our ranks swelled until ours was the largest class in Lawrenceville, that we became an important factor in school life. It was then that we numbered among our classmates such athletes as Dane Kafer, Prince Wfillien Yard, Bill Moorhead, and others far too numerous to mention. The Study Room was ours, and we owned it in royal style, much to the dis- comhture of the masters in charge. There, too, we whiled away long winter afternoons in the indoor exercise under Senator Durbin, long since departed. IS

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the House of Lords that evening, full-Hedged seniors, with privileges and unwritten rules galore. It was a glorious existence that we led those First few il' jf VF! Ty' j l if ' ,i 6? DM XV days in the Upper. How consciously we gathered on the esplanade after prayers and looked across the campus at the Houses where the underformers were hard I y j at work! And how we loafed in the village, especially if any Master was in M' ' fa! sight, just to show that there were no more study hours and village rules for us! ii, O Scarcely had we cast our ballots in the class elections before we turned fp 94 7f A our attention to the new additions to '99, What a collection we found! There X was '98's donation to us-souvenirs of bygone days- Kissie Imbrie, Moffat, Rob Eddy, and Butch. Yes, Butch was ours at last, and the gun club f became a probability, Nay, Frank W1'ight, we will not leave him as a memorial, ,' as is. so cruelly suggested, because he does not belong to our generation. l There, too, were the Freshmen, among whom we found our entertainers in X the shape of numerous Ends, There were long men, short men, thin men, , i fat men, and men who Weren't men at all. There was Carrick, Bondyf' Mac Fraser, the Tub, and Frankie the poler. What splendid oarsmen they were! How quickly they decided that they E V Would rather be a dog, and bay at the moon, than take a cool plunge in the pond! Those, indeed, were great days, when we adopted the Honor System in recitations and examinations, and ordered our class pipes, while every door was closed lest others should learn of our secret. Can we forget that parade of the Purity Brigade, clad in white, or the cake-walks, in which Nigger Couch and Millie Alden made such a hit? Then it was that Pete Dana came back to us, and Pop Stevens, in the excitement of the event, actually appeared with only fwo rolls to his trousers. 20