Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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KXXQMM Jbiwlidrilm HAMILL HOUSE, 1843 Tradztzons , Hiiiui was oxcli ix young man who combined both a sense of good business and high efficiency with lofty idealism. U Q He was a struggling young minister in the tiny town of A ' Maidenhead just live or more miles from Princeton. l'er- haps his salary was not very great and his family was grow- ing: perhaps he saw the need of education in a young landg perhaps his eye for business and a certain love of boys pos- wg ge: gf:-' '-12, .A g v L J ' v Q x r 1 sn J L S sessed him-we shall never know for sure-but. at any rate. he made up his mind to begin a school. So, one line morning i11 1810 he cut himself a stout elm switch. gathered nine boys in a little house on the Kings High- way. took lf1n'IifI'.t lflellzezifx from the shelf. and set himself up as school- master. The young man's name was lsaae Yan ,Xrsdale llrown, and his tiny school grew into Our Lawrenceville. The story of the growth of the school. as the history hooks go, reads like a fairy tale. and yet when one thinks about it, there is much more reality than imagination in the chronicles of its sturdy development. 'l'he Rev- erend Mr. llrown. as has been said, had an eye for business. lly l8l2 he called his school the .Xcademv of Maidenhead, had a board of trustees fcom- posed of men with names famous in Lawrenceville memoryj. and was ad- vertising widely lor boys. ln lSl-l a suitable building. the llamill house. was constructed. .-Xnd by l83-l when he retired from its directorship, the school was happily llourishing. llll