Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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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

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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 LAWRENCEVILLE'OLL.f1 PODRIDA' dance a few of us had a very Hne dinner at the Foundation House, at which State Street was well represented. At the Prom. one girl spent a whole dance trying to make Tessie Campbell say, Bah Jovef' Max Hughes fwho delivered that famous speech saying that we could call him Irish, but we couldn't insult the Irish immigrants, and then daring the whole smoking room to call him a name, had great trouble finding T. Wisner's girl. He found J. Wisner twice and then gave up. Willcox did a standing two-step on a chaperon's train. There was a report that someone smoked a cigarette there. Following the dance, a big tea was given in 25 Upper. c The famous HP. C. Basket-ball Team after its reorganization developed into a champion team. ,BML Craven elected Bassett, Captain, -,ggg.,g,g,QEl!MIMlMHHIIIW5'p-ini and Bassett elected Craven , Mana- f ' mfg .flij 'G-737-5 -L ip., . . ,f ger. With Stoddart, Rossiter and 1 .,-jf 4',,,, .Eff I ,f'Jfl'l.'W' - s f . Ind? --5 gui Preston as the stars, th1s team ,IV G ,-1 ' sa,- wi -26 1 . V -- x went through its schedule un- ' Q1 JW 9 defeated, winning ten games 'fi 24.1419 me-.-we-Yea straight. First the H Independ- -.-T . ents fell before them, then the Faculty, our greatest rival. Then the UHamillites and Legg's Hlnvinci- bles, who never lost but one game because they only played one. Mr. Maroney was the Faculty,s biggest point getter. Jim Coffee and Harry Fulton were their cheering section. Between the halves of our games the Varsity generally defeated some outside team. One morning Dwight had a shock at the breakfast table when he ate a grape fruit. He tasted some liquid in the center, looked up quickly with an expression of pleasant discovery and said: HGee! funny-good! and made a grab for Thompson's. Now the snow is all gone, to the joy of everyone, especially Payne, and the baseball candidates are having their first outdoor practice. Kraut- hoff and Craven went out for the team, but it was nothing serious. They say Craven will make the marble team. Now Douglas and Goodhue are over the mumps. When Goodhue fwho, with Chisolm and Gosnell, pretty well regulates the Fifth Form Latin comp.D went to the hospital, there was big money up whether Bassett 23