Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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LLA PCDDIDA Dr. Hamill as the requirements for admission to college had remained the same. Many of the students from Dr. Brown's time on entered the sopho- more or junior class at college. The period of the Civil War and the years following were as difficult as that of the Great War and its succeeding years, and it is a tribute to Dr. IOHN C. GREEN-FOUNDER or LAw1uaNeEvu.1.12 Sci-loor. Twelve 1.

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LL PUDDID T1-112 1'1AlNl1LL HOUSE, BUILT IN 1814 and amusement, he did make a swimming pool, where the pond now is, and even introduced gymnastics The name of the village and School was changed to Lawrenceville in 1816. In 1832 Dr. Brown was joined by Mr. Alexander H. Phillips to whom he sold the School in 1834. Mr. Phillips's chief contribution, historically, to the School was the publication of its Hrst catalogue, in 1836. Besides the description of the School and the course of study, it gave the names and addresses of II7 students showing even at that early period the wide geo- graphical distribution which has always been characteristic. In 1837 Mr. Phillips sold the School to the Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Hamill, who had come three years earlier expecting to teach only a year or two and kept on for forty-six. It was due to him that the School was not given up or taken into the public school system of the state. The name he gave it was the Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial High School. Dr. Hamill's brother, the Rev. Hugh Hamill, was his assistant for many years. The School prospered and grew under Dr. Hamill, who was one of the great head masters of his generation. He won and kept the devotion and affection of his boys. There were few changes in the course of study under Eleven

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r LLA .PCDDIDA Hamill that the School not only carried on, but grew. Two literary societies were formed in the '5o's which lasted seventy years but there were very few other extra-curricular activities. Dr. Hamill's idea of athletics was a long walk or run through the country, and it was only in the latter part of his administration that football and baseball began to be played. In I875 Iohn C. Green died and left a large estate, made in the china trade, to his wife and friends to devote to such uses as they thought he would approve. As the need of good preparatory schools for Princeton was very great and there were few preparatory schools outside of New England, they bought the School from Dr. Hamill and established the Iohn C. Green Foundation. The School was incorporated and a Board of Trustees elected. In 1883 Dr. Iames C. Mackenzie was made head master and entirely reorganized the School. Over a million dollars was spent on the buildings, the five Circle Houses, Memorial Hall, the Chapel and Upper, which form the Circle. The curriculum was modernized, the classes divided into A FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE N1NETiEs Thzatcen ir .8