Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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DRID4 1 A if : M. DAVIS N. HARPER 3EE.MoRst . BUNN, JR- X, THE LAWRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDA ifaistntp of the fifth jfnrm I Zi Bit ni Qntient Zfaisturp A,,g. UR first day at Lawrenceville-what an . awful, momentous day it was, and how it VAA . comes back to us now, fraught with all the ,AL q :. Z qualms and terrors of our entrance into a new and ' totally strange world! What thoughts filled our A PLALA 21- vtl?A brain as the Old Line came over the hill by the r,.. r Woman's Home, and there, stretching away below us like a sunny panorama, we caught our first glimpse of the school four school, we felt proudlyl ! How different things were, and how strange we felt! A thousand recollections come crowding back upon us- our first Hjiggerug the first fellow we met, the startling command to turn down your pants, freshman ! Cthose were the good old days before it was made a crime to teach a new fellow just how meek a creature 'he should bei, the secret admiration we bestowed on the mighty Fifth Formers, laugh- ing and chatting in front of Al's, with their dilapidated House hats cocked carelessly on the back of their heads. How we envied them! We wondered if we too would ever attain unto the dignity of the Upper, and get our names carved on the historic-looking old slabs in Billgates. The Second Form seemed so awfully far down, and the Fifth Form so awfully high up! That night, you remember, we set ourselves stolidly over ournbooks, and repeated amicus-a-um over and over again to ourselves, until we had it by heart. And now we are Fifth Formers-the mighty Fifth Formers that we reverenced so much in those days, and in a few short weeks our life at Lawrenceville will be a memory from the past. But it will be a memory, we are sure, to warm our hearts with good cheer and comradeship, for how can we recall the friends that we have made, the good times that we have had, the scrapes that we have got into fand always, in some way or other got out ofl without feeling a thrill of loyalty and devotion JOHN MORTON DAVIS 17

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W If , 1 Il N265 Wig I Y x I. , T AWRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDQ THE L , K E - - -2 Q - T I FT H1 V R , u Q! k BZ-QXXBTIV I C XHYLJZQJ I Ml f 1 I ' M .x X WNW? VX W! ,Ei Q XX ,g N My X , - x, E 1i ml mx' R M N1 ,HHN President . . JOHN M. DAVIS Vice-President . FRANK W. HARPER ' 1 ii'- lily I Secretary and Treasurer, GEORGE E. MORSE jjiff'-'TQ . Historian G. W. BUNN, JR. , KM Gian -gl 16

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5-vHE LAWVRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDA h ol and its associations. And now it is my pleasant task to the Old SC 0 to record, as best I can, a few of these good times fand scrapesl, and good friends and associations that belong to the class of nineteen hundred and eight. In so doing we shall let ancient history take care of itself, and start right in with the Fifth Form year+ ,, the best and happiest of them all! PRIVATE ' U - T The Qbfficers ' lr i. ---1 We were particularly fortunate, in the first place, Rui ' in having such a gallant bunch of officers to lead . . - CK us. Johnnie Davis Cotherwise known as Waco and The Bear D was an almost unanimous choice for President, and an excellent one he has proved to be. Johnnie is a Texan by birth, by favor, and the grace of the immortal gods. Although he sometimes forgets his southern accent, he never forgets he is a Texan. 'Combined with a due sense' of southern chivalry, Johnnie has the most tantalizing pair of eyelashes that ever made a girl leave home. They raised quite a little havoc at the Winter Prom., they say. H Davie remained impassive, however, to women,s wiles until the fatal day he met Nellie, the B . . . eautiful Cloak Model. He has never been himself since. Our Vice-President is Harper, the athlete, who looks around to the names of HHarp and HCaruso. From that you might think that he is something of a musician. Quite so. Harp can run up the scale to high HC, without batting an eyelid, and is just as much at home mur- derin HD' L ' ' ' ' g ie ustige Witwe as he is slamming out a little double with the bases strung, or putting the shot, of almost anything else. Once last Winter Harp's voice cracked, and for a time he was singing duets. fThat's an old one, but it comes in handy.D I Ast Secretary-Treasurer we elected George Morse Cmore commonly Caled Gimp D. George had had some experience in handling money as Manager of the Golf T . b H - Cam, and was in every way qualified for the o . f, e made H good One, too, because he very rarely asked us to come up, G' - - Imp was also the original Raffle K E 5? -I !!T:'fq,.,,, W .. Om - if I ing, and othewise cele- 18