Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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ree of ifittler, tak in 6 will s only ish up 1 bury rt and ought which Fellers mom in 'e, and to in- minds. eabury thingS Editor th ten .d into the fifth form, hence the possession of something over car fare.j The natural chemical change immediately followed, and the P. Y. M. C. A. and the E. L. were soon gazing earnestly at the trained monkeys in Act I. It so happened that behind them there were two masters, also gazing earnestly. tThey must have had ten cent seats, tooj. liven the most brazen of historians could not chronicle the bestowal of two blacks upon a Y. M. C. A. President without tears. NVe surely cannot. Wife reconcile the statement to our readers by the reflection that when our President received blacks it was not him who fell but the blacks that rose. , CHoni soit qui mal y pensej ln this connection it maybe proper to tell of the manner in which the Y. M. C. A. oliicers are elected. Trials of a month are ordered. If during this time a fellow is found who does not cuss when he gets his clothes back from the local laundry he is elected Presi- dent ex facto. There is a legend to the effect that once there were two Presidents the same year. If so it was a mistake at the laundry, we are sure. .AX hfth form is merely a collection of house delegations that live together in one house with no common bond but the dinner bell, until after the class elections, when the Upper House settles down to its normal pace as a maker of men. Qui' elections were exciting. There were three men that stood out as strong rivals,-Qrr, Rector and Graves. The scythe of scholarship at the last moment mowed down the two latter and Qrr took the wheel. September goth was the date of the Peerczde. To those unacquainted with our customs we will say that the Pc'c1'ao'c is an institution founded by the village stores some years ago in order that they might sell a goodly supply of fireworks, torch lights and watchmen's rattles to every fifth form. It has developed into a Mardi Gras celebration, a masculine Bacchanalia so to speak, to celebrate the arrival of another triumphant, self-satisfied class of healthy and jubilant young Americans. The official uniform is the Hnightie, two piece sort preferred. 19

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l l davs of our class were as mysterious as the source of VVithout one, however, tie ear y d n the Nile. There must have been a beginning sonietilliei th-CTC mUSll UHVC bCC11 3 E11'St Settler, -' ' f lt hen he stood f'silent upon a peak in one who knows from experience just how Balboa e w Darien. But such a one has not presented himself, and in consequence the origin of 'oo will probably always be wrapped in a solemn and dignified obscurity. D QThe ciwcfusz C'How nice. j' At any rate, on account of the founding of the Historians' Union the writer has only to concern himself with the res gestaque of the present year, and is not -obliged to polish up the reputations of any one previous to September 14th, 1905. The dead past, then, can bury its dead in peace. There are four ways of writing a c ass y legible hand everything that happened, another is to write what the historian thinks ought ' ' c' ' l f 'th 's that b which to have happenedg the third is to hue some one else to write it, tie our 1 y the present history, as may be discovered, is proceeding to fulfillment. T f 'oo enthroned in the Upper in two groupsg Us Fellers l Them Freshmen Them Freshmen were the first of their kind to be allowed to room in anc - . . the Upper and Us Fellers were a little sore at the intrusion. Wfe watched them with care, and at the first sign of freshness on their part we detailed Peanuts as a Committee of Qne to in- - . . n . . . . K . d troduce a better sense of proportion and things in general into their inexperienced min S. After that the rift in the lute began to close, and under the skilful manipulation of Seabury l histor . Une is to write down in a neat and September 14th found the class o Gould the two groups began to take up life together for better or for worse. It was during this period of Reconstruction, when we began to put away childish things and sit up all night to see how it felt, that the President of the Y. M. C. A. and the Editor of the Lit. Cno extra charge for capitalsj found themselves in front of the Trent with ten cents apiece and car fare. QThe under form system of Bursar orders is not continued into Q 18

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