Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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Gfcklzowfegqnzelzfs V The EDITORS of the OLLA PODRIDA wish to express their appreciation to the following, who have helped them most gen- erously and willingly in securing information and in publishing this book: MR. A. LUCIUS LINCOLN, Who, as Faculty Supervisor, has given much necessary information for this volume. MR. LORY PRENTISS, MR. GEORGE EDMUND SCHON- HEITER, and MR. HOWARD ROE WOOD, who have also supplied much valuable material. . HTHE LAWRENCE, which has been a source of informa- tion on events occurring throughout the year. MR. ORREN JACK TURNER, the photographer, who has been a great help to the board in taking nearly all the photo- graphs appearing in this issue. Miss J. ISABELLE WARRENDER, Miss LILLIAN M. SI-IIELDS, MR. LANSING W. TOSTEVIN, and IVIR. WILLIAM VAN SYCLE, who have taken a great deal of their time in sup- plying us with valuable information. T1-IE READ-TAYLOR COMPANY, the engravers, printers, binders, and publishers of this volume, who have done more than their share in making it a success.

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4w4,,,,5,. N 4. . , dd!- ,.Jf lQ .2 'ta:4' ' '- '- Q 4 my W .A R 1 Vx Jig T A, h Q 5.33.-,H fradifiwzs HERE was once a young man who combined both a sense of good business and high efficiency with lofty idealism. He was a struggling young minis- ter in the tiny town of Maidenhead, just five or more miles from Princeton. Perhaps his salary was not very great and his family was growing: perhaps he saw the need of education in a young land: perhaps his eye for business and a certain love of boys possessed him-we shall never know for sure-but, at any rate, he made up his mind to begin a school. So, one fine morning in 1810 he cut himself a stout elm switch, gathered nine boys in a little house on the King's Highway, took EucIz'd's Elements from the shelf, and set himself up as school-master. The young man's name was Isaac Van Arsdale Brown, and his tiny school grew into Our Lawrenceville. The story of the growth of the school, as the history books 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. The Reverend Mr. Brown, as has been said, had an eye for business. By 1812 he called his school the Academy of Maidenhead, had a board of trustees Qcomposed of men with names famous in Lawrenceville memoryj, and was advertising widely for boys. In 1814 a suitable building, the Hamill house, was constructed, and by 1834, when he retired from its directorship, the school was happily flourishing. But this man was not all business. He was a dreamer, too. He innovated the system of having separate classes recite in separate rooms, a radical departure in those days. He not only saw that his boys learned Penmanship, the Art of Speaking, the Classics, Modern Languages, Surveying, and Navigation, but he announced that their morals, their manners, their amusement, and their health would receive particular attention. Gymnastick exercises and other athletick amusement, horsemanship and riding in carriages, are employed to improve health and inspire cheerfulness among the pupils, says his advertisement. A sound rock upon which to build a school was Isaac Van Arsdale Brown. Twelve