Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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MQLUXF D K H EAD MAST EITS MESSAGE OMETIMES I wonder how you stand it. Life in a beeh-ive is perhaps monotonous, but to some of you it must seem restful and commodious. As residents of Upper you perform I-Ierculean feats of adaptation and fortitude. To the blare of a jazz orchestra and the clamor of angry argument on the comparative merits of Eastern and Mid-West football-you fall peacefully asleep. For serious study you turn on the radio. bfusic soothes you, although your breasts are not uniformly savage, apparently it also releases the full sweep and vigor of your intellects. Noise merely relaxes you. The Club Kinnan and the Villa George, I am told, are not witlh-out their own special clamor, beloved of connoisseurs .... Yet wherever you -live, you seem to t'hrive on it. You gain in weight and strengtih. The food with which you occasionally find passing fault not only sustains you but enlarges you .... It is obvious that few bees could survive the life you lead. Bees and ants are frequently commended to your admiration and example. I consider your performance the more noteworthy. It has been diverting to live next door to you. You 'have been considerate and entertaining neighbors. Knowing Upper's reputation for spriglmtly behavior, I approached Bill Schell early in the year, on finding tlhat he and Bob Lewis were rooming next to Foundation, and urged upon ihiim a decent evening quiet. I hope you,ll do the same,', he replied, I like to go to bed pretty earlyf, I trust tlhe satisfac- tion has been mutual .... For me, our association has been marked by memorable episodes: I-Ieyniger and I-Ierring in action together-any action, the charming project hatched by Heyl and Bovie to revive the manufacture of mead, Barnet in I0urncy'5 End, followed closely by Micholls and Mathewson, Pipe and Quill, good talk at Sunday teas, Heynigerys impersonations of his betters, Bislhop Whiteis marimba, my first Fifth Form discussion groups, my adventure with an Irish setter of uncertain temper, Mac Raymond as President of tlre School-these are -but a few of the peaks that emerge as one reviews ithe landscape of the past few months. You are aware, of course, that we have had serious designs on you, and you have offered yourselves with patience and fortitude as a high speoies of educational guinea- pig. Now and then, as in every difficult endeavor, our experiments have failed, but we have tried to keep our purpose always clear, and discover more effective means for its expression. With your generous cooperation we have measurably approached our goal. Our most obvious effort has been to 'hold you to a 'high standard of intellectual accomplishment, for unless you can make your minds work hard whenever you want them to, you are small good to yours-elves or to anybody else. It has been more difficult, and more important, to equip you with the qualities of mind and heart which distinguish educated men and make them serviceable to their day. Feeling that self-reliance was the most 'potent weapon with which we could provide you, we have tried to riid your lives of small restrictions, giving your innate capacities room to forage and grow strong. W'e have substantially increased your freedom. In spite of superficial signs, the consequence has really made life harder for you, because it has placed a larger portion of your destiny within your own control. But, though harder, I am sure tlhat the process has been maturing and strengthening, that you are more your own men because of it. We have also hoped to make you feel that you were being dealt with reasonably Nine