Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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MQLLKXP DQK ki X, TIQAIDITIDNS ROM 1813, when Lawrenceville School was a shack in the wilds, two hours' ride from Princeton and Trenton by stage coach, down to the present day of afternoon movie permits to those same places, tradition has played an important and distinctive role in Lawrenceville life. Even the most determined world-beaters from the rhinie ranks have had the awe of Lawrenceville instilled unforgetably in them. Promptly shorn of their pants cuffs, topped with quaint hats, and forced to keep off the Circle, they have learned through the decades that a Laurentian is just another rhinie until he has proved himself. Nor may the neophyte adorn his frame with the venerable Red and Black until after the Christmas holidays. Spring nights and full moons have ever led Laurentians to try their voices at harmonizing. Out on the Esplanadefi 'gOn Down the Fieldf, We,lil Whoop ,er Upi, fthe Class songj, as well as all the old stan-d-bys, are loosed to the stars from the Esplanade. On balmy nights many Laurentian Seniors from the Caleb Smith put those in the Circle :houses to sleep with the Go-to-Bed song. ik 'Xl :KY if Cars parked hub to hub, stands crowded, spirit and speculation high, the tenseness in the air explodes in deafening cheering as the two teams come on the field. From the opposing bleachers a shout starts and develops into a uniform roar. The Red and Black stands swell in answer. It is the annual Lawrenceville-Hill football game. Eleven

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MIQLLCX - Qt and sympatheticallyg that the task of building life arightt at Lawrenceville was a common task in which we who administered it might work by cooperation rather than compulsion. I believe that all successful 'human relations must be based on mutual confidence, that is why we have sought to promote among you a sense of responsibility and a preference for sincerity, candor, fair dealing, and a single-minded honesty. In less direct ways we have surrounded you with in.Huences designed to touch your hearts, your imaginations, your spirits, and to stir them to fine and durable achieve- ment. Our task has been to train the whole man to grasp life's realities and to appre- ciate its opportunities. How well we have wrought, the next twenty years will tell. Penhaps you will one clay look back upon your time here with gratitude and satisfaction. For a century and a quarter, men have been made here. We hope you will co-unt yourselves fortunate to be numbered among them. You are leaving a beloved spot. There is more beauty here, more friendliness, more generosity, more gaiety than you are likely to find in later life. There is enshrined here the love of generations of Lawrenceville men. May you cherish in your hearts, and show forth in your lives, abiding love for Lawrence- ville! You can bestow no greater gift. 'l'hault you lor this line year together. l bid you goodbye with hope, with confi- dence, and with affection. ALLAN V. HEELY, Head Master Ten

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MQLUX Pe D The Pottstown outht are commanding: Wash that shirt,', to which the Lawrence- ville horde equally firmly denies: We won't wash the shirt. The fact is that the night before the Laurentian captain slept in a weatherbeaten red shirt, a relic of the Hrst great conflict between the two schools in the 'nineties. Tradition dictates that, if Lawrenceville should go down to defeat, the shirt must be washed. FX! :Xi SF ii The less conspicuous traditions of the old School take strange shapes, and are alll intensely interesting. A Hessian soldier of the Revolutionary days supposedly sleeps the eternal slumber next to the road which runs by Foundation. Years ago a secret room was discovered in Hamill, and non-permitters and practical jokers used it to great advantage. Some unsuspecting rhinie would hear noises at night seemingly coming from the wallg the result, a case of jitters, for there have been stories of ghosts in the ancient house. as as an- -me Of course there are many more minor customs: Each class has tried to steal the bellflapper Clatest success 19-gfiljg flares on the Circleg the nigger-baby 'toll of 'brokeln windows and sore anatomiesg cheering the masters aft the end of the last class before vlic vacationg the immortal Iigger. It is our wish that these traditions which help to set Lawrenceville apart will continue to he observed and kept sacred, Lawrenceville's fine spirit and individuality can be attributed in no small way to the rigid observance and acknowledgment of all that has gone before. Brsi-lov WlII1'E '36 i l l Twelve'