Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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THE LAWRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDA the squad learn. We were best at f N '4' I P' rail clinging. One day Jib. Bunn , . 'wa ff . discovered that he was cut out for 1-14. Q . g y- - 259-A .. 22:5 1 1' i 'Q 1 ,, his girl by Bill Collins, the tailor. ,E grtfx- '5 Jib. idefends himself by explaining that Bill was naturally a winning man as he could press his suit better. About the middle of the J ,,E. fag F -r season the team scored a great victory against the Trenton Giants. Capt. Bunn directed the game from the dentist's window opposite. Lawrenceville easily won the game owing to the fact that Spader was ineligible on account of conditions. He is now at Princeton Summer school and has removed conditions in the first and second books of Vergil. Then came out Booker T. Washington's All-American Team, and to the delight of all roller skating fans, both Harper and Bassett made it. Craven was put out for hurdling and Peterson for breaking training. On Lincoln's Birthday the rink did a big business and so did 'ilVIel. This practically M .. . 1-3-9 3' 1 , 5' i Z4 Q'- , broke up the team. Many things have occurred in the Chapel this year. One of the first was a fox-terrier who came in to see Bartholomay, but catching sight of Mr. Bronson in the pulpit and mistaking him for a friend, the pup promptly headed for him and was just about to get there when a student in the choir grabbed him and passed him out the door. One time at vespers, Bard started to lead in the Lord's Prayer all alone. Another night we had a bat there that missed the Wisner brothers' heads by only a few inches. Someone slew it with a hymn book. Bobb developed the bad habit of coming to Chapel without a tie. lust before Christmas vacation great excitement was caused by the dancing class over Hullfish's store. A bevy of fair maids, most of them famous roller-skaters, was gathered there to help the learning students, mostly from the Second Form. Hamill House, being opposite, had the greatest sale of seats. Many souvenir misconducts were distributed to onlookers. About this time there was a big Hcake-Hghtl' at Mr. Treat's. A great drift of students snowed in the few girls there. Bumpkin Alden made a 21

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THE LAWRENCEPTILLE OLLA PODRIDA Peacock and W. Bunn Cwhom Galbraith described, in one of his famous debates as only using his head for a hat rackl sat down at the first quarter 1 to smoke, perhaps on the theory of where there is smoke, there is fire. The rest of us, except Saunders, who got caught on a barbed wire fence, and Bobb, who lost his glasses in some bushes, kept on and reached a brook, where we lost another bunch and Tommie Douglas lost his dinner. All who crossed this brook finished, no matter in what condition. Wall, Dwight, Legg, Scott and Pruyn finished strong, but the Hre was almost out. Anyhow it was a famous run. ESTH This year Princeton beat Dartmouth, 42-O. Yea! Mr. Spooner. On the car up to the game Galbraith ffamous for his laughl, Bunn W., Stump and several others, including the writer, were awarded lemons in the shape of five misconducts apiece by Mr. Henry. He missed the real criminal, as Davis, in 1 7 r?4cDsnv4- wv TIPAWI 4' :na num our this year's sacrifice to Harvard, freely admits. When the first mid-term came there were some big surprises. It became the style to join evening study. Some of us joined voluntarily, to get a pull, but after we were in discovered we couldn't get out. There was a big retired list of students who were forced to take a rest from the dissipated habits of the Fifth Form. Allison, Hughes, ffamous for his cigarsl, Milliken, fthe Class boozerl, Preston and Stoddard Cbig P. C. menl, Thompson and Ward, were on this list, but all got off in time except Ward, who came to the conclusion that there was no place like Denver. On account of having no football this year, some sport had to be substituted for the hundreds of rude athletes clamoring for exercise. Soccer and Field Hockey were tried, with little success. Finally roller skating was discovered. Cn October 24th, Captain lib. Bunn called for candidates for the team, practice to be held at the Trenton Arcade Rink. The response was large but owing to the difficulty in obtaining permits the squad diminished to a faithful few. Many a little romance started there, only to be cut off by a cold-blooded Faculty. Five blacks did not interrupt Krauthoff's romance though. Bartholomay for why girls leave homel and Douglas fDavidson's college chuml rescued a girl there one day but there are no developments so far. It was a great sight to see 20

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THE LAWRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDA social error CI would tell you how he got his nickname if everybody did not know. The beautiful illustra- tion shows to ,some extent. By the 4 A way, these pictures are drawn by -f-fgfl stiff:- the author so don't blame them on -- ri 33-,Ji J! -4 1 if . :urn ,- W ., 'Q I anybody elsel. John Alden fwho wiv' fussed Priscilla, dropped a sandwich . , A 5 1 524 -71'-fi95 . , ef 5 - - -f -H.mdi. K mm ' T 5umP' on the floor and then made it worse by trying to kick it under the table. Finally the girl he was talking to stepped on it. Somebody found some cigarettes upstairs so the male cake-fighters downstairs suddenly diminished in number. 4' At last, Christmas vacation came, and ended sooner. For a week after that, the conversation was: Where was I a week ago to-night. We have had a great many dogs in Upper this year. Cupid belongs there. He spent one night' in Trask's bed with a chicken bone and another in Haines's. Then we had a fox-terrier called Evelyn Nesbit that was a great pet. One of the last was a Boula, a cross between a grey-hound and a white rabbit. Alden adopted him after Legg gave him a bath. He was growing more and more like Alden every day, when the strain becoming too great, he suddenly left. As usual about the mid-year there was a slide from Upper to Hamill. The Bunn brothers, Morrison, Dwight, Galbraith, Douglas, Heacock and Pierson left via the big laundry wagon. Eddie got up such speed that he did not stop with the Fourth Form. He says he has taken twenty-eight exams. for Princeton and passed one of them, and now just to spite 'ern he'll give 'em that one. Hamill House .- if always has a good crowd of fellows, iq but now is additionally toned up by l' the Life Boat crew from Upper. Craven hlpvl Tug, moved up into Dwight's oHice, and uh i'fg1-: f b-1 Alden and Thompson were the new ji? dmtofs- , , -?7 i'l .1g -ix? The Class gave a Mid-Winter i f Prom. in the Gym. which was a very if successful little dance. Before the 22