Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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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

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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 I3 DDIDA at forms, and an able and permanent faculty engaged. Until this period, teaching had not been a profession and few of the faculty had stayed more than a few years. The School grew amazingly. l MATHER A. Amsorr, LITT.D.-HEAD MASTR IQIQ-I934 Fourteen