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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'Ht he .YC JTC Ill- 111- ml -ire uns UT l 2'0- .L ,- ..1- S41 31136 1'1T. 1-Q s., 'Hi- , . .1 1, L1 :H - 1 1' , -5 fl ,CUL- will SIUE' ville. Soccer proved not so hard as it looks. It was a nuisance though, to keep one's hair neatly parted, and one's gloves from soiling in the dirt, as the rules posted by the elocution department required. All in all, English foot-ball will never be as popular in America as E II.Lf'fI.S1l ZJ1'1'm'. .Ns we said before, there is more than one way to write history. The Back Stairs sort is the most interesting, but such a chronicle was never written by one who toils under the gaze of a Censor. It is quite exciting writing history under Censorship, something like it is done in Spain or Russia. The Lawrence could tell a tale about this. XVe had only to 3.-ell Ere at a Lawrence editor in the winter term to cause something to be doing. It scems that one week someone wrote a long editorial on -XNhat's that sir, shan't I write any thing more about it?-All right, sir. QYou see, fellowsj But some gossip is not only permissible but demanded. Wfho could write a history without referring to Si and the way he passed his physical examg or English and his guitar? One day English went to New York to visit a young lady. He wondered just how many suits he would need. His friends gave him all the advice there was going. NVe weren't going to let a Lawrenceville boy be ill-equippedwhen on such an expedition, so we persuaded him to take a Tuxedo suit and various other social uniforms. Wfe gave him the address of a yacht and automobile furnisher, for emergencies. This was doing pretty well for forty-eight hours. A pole cat became extinct one mellow December evening in the immediate vicinity of the Hamill. The Upper doesn't tolerate such things. The pulse, or one of the pulses, of the Upper was the smoking room. Thompson was the physician in charge to see that the pulse beat at a due rate of speed. He wasn't called physician, though, but janitor. He it was thai arranged the Durham bags and the Cube tins in their wonderful geometric patterns. He, too, was the one who tended them so carefully 21