Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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beating hearts, we chose our rooms and bid adieu to the old school till we should return and fill as best we might the place of honor left us by our departing friends of 702. To many of our number this summer seemed longer than any of the others we had spent as members of the class of ,O3, for before us lay the Upper with all its attractions. However, the time came soon enough for our return to school, and so it was that a bright September morning found us back again at last a united class, for now our delegations from all the houses were together as a united body. We were a happy crowd, as there lay before us nearly all the privileges of the college man and a year in which to bring honor more especially to 'og as a class. At nrst it must be confessed that it looked like rather a difficult problem to combine all these different house-delegations into a united class without trouble, but all worry on this account was soon put to flight by the readiness with which we soon mingled, and class spirit grew. The Hamill House, in which 'o3's new members had taken up their abode with a few of our old stand-bys to take care of them, joined heartily in with the Upper in class spirit, thus giving 'o3 an excellent foundation of unity upon which to build the year's success. At the class elections by an unanimous vote Bummyi' and Pop, were again chosen as our leaders, and since our old time friend f'Ike had not returned, we chose as his successor jerry Belden. Somehow or other, our Secretaries seemed doomed to hard luck, for Ike H could not return and jerry, much to our regret, had to send in his resignation. However, his place was well hlled by his follower in office, Commodorei, Hulst. The Upper House chose as their Di- rectors Bullu Brown, Empty Cooke, HPup', Revell and Tub Truesdale, while the Hamill laid the honor of keeping them quiet on Batchelder, Rommel, Abernethy, Roth and Smith, O. H. With these as our officers we started on our last year. What lay before us we knew not, but we did know that we were determined to honor the name of '03 and do all in our power towards its success. i Although weather, examinations, and Dr. McPherson's untimely attack of illness seemed determined to prevent it, at last there came the time when 'og could have its pee-rade. ,Even then it was doing its best to rain, but as long as it did not, so much the better for us, as it only 2I

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expected to see a new and nearly completed gymnasium. However, we could do nothing but wait and console ourselves with the.fact that it was at least really started. Christmas vaca- tion came and went, but our hopes for the new 4' gym. now daily increased, as we saw its brown walls grow higher as time went on. Besides this evidence, was added the fact that our gymna- sium directors had been already engaged and would soon begin work in the cage, with all who were interested. Mr. Prentiss and Mr. Mason, who were to take charge of the work, began quickly and soon we were enjoying ourselves, to our great surprise, as much in the cage as we had expected to do in the new gym. . There was but one thing lacking now, and that was the tank. But our patience was at last rewarded by the following notice that was posted somewhat in the following manner: The tank will be open this afternoon for I and II Forms, 4.oo-4.553 IH and IV Forms, 5.oo--5.55.', The tank was finished, but not so with the rest of the building, and this fact made it necessary for us to do our dressing on the surrounding remnants of scaffolding. Notwithstanding this diffi- culty, we enjoyed our first swim immensely. The building each day took a stride towards its completion, and soon it was ready for the finishing touches and the apparatus. But as the days grew warmer and summer approached, track and baseball drew our atten- tion away fron1 the gym. The baseball team did its work beautifully, and in the end came off with a glorious victory over Hill. The track team was ,not quite so successful, however, but its members in 'o3, when the class-day meet came around, proved themselves worthy of their class and won the meet in spite of 'ozis best efforts to carry off the laurels of victory. Our third year was coming to its close. Summer spread out before us with its long days of recreation and enjoyment 3 but in the hearts of the members of our class there arose a strange feeling. We were about to select our rooms in the Upper. It is diflicult to explain to a stranger the feelings excited in the hearts of undergraduates on this occasion, for the Upper is the dream of every First Former, the ideal of every Second Former and the goal of every Third Former, in fact, at Lawrenceville, as at Rome in olden days, All roads lead to the Upperf' Like a Roman in the days of Caesar, so is the Upper House man regarded at Lawrenceville to-day. Thus, with 20

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made. it darker Such a pee-rade as that one had never before been given by any class. The words class spirit H came far from describing our feelings on that night as we marched from house to house 'midst red-lights, roman candles and rattling six-shooters 5 and drums, gongs and dinner bells to ill the gaps in the racket' when pistols were being loaded. Cheers for every Maste rent the air, followed by the deafening crashes and blazing lights. Finally, when we had gone the rounds of all the Houses, as our ammunition began to give out and the lights died down, we gathered together for our final cheer on the esplanade. As its echoes died away, the gloriously happy members of 'og turned in to dream of the coming year and consequently to sleep off the effects of their exertions. Football now occupied most of our attention for our team seemed to be working out splendidly under the guiding hand of Bummy, as its captain. We met but one team from which we had to take defeat, and that was the Princeton Freshmen and not a Prep.,' school. When we had wrested the laurels of victory from the hands of Hill, we felt thoroughly satisfied with our men. In speaking of football it would be a grave mistake to omit the glorious career of the Creams, our class team. From start to finish their course was that of conquering heroes. They trampled on all who deigned to challenge them, and crowned their successful season by defeating the Montclair Military Academy. - I s f Q, 1 'F fl- fi- 24 PS :F :k :iz sg :iz :k :k :K Thanksgiving vacation passed and was soon forgotten, but the members of ,og will never forget its ending, for then it was in God's providence He chose to take from our midst, our friend and comrade, Oscar Bishop Raynor. WOl'dS cannot express the grief felt by the class when tidings came that we had lost our beloved Vice-president. He had stood as an example and had been spch a gcpod friend among us, that it would not be exaggerating if we say that the success of our C 355 2111 the feeling of unity among us was largely due to his efforts. So let us pause here a moment to do him due tribute. X 5F DF PK D14 :lg X, :F :L 22