Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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TI-IE I-IARKNESS GIFT

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ll D and of chinning yourselves on the awning bars on the esplanade at Prom time marks you as essentially normal fellows, to whom progressivism is not an inward passion but something you can take or leave, as you please. . For myself you are unique in the fact that I had known some of you for two years before you became the Lords of Lawrenceville. My ripening acquaintance with you while you were still in the Circle has made my contacts with you particularly rich and gratifying. You have been a pleasant company to live with and to live next to, the latter always an important attribute in any fifth form. I have greatly enjoyed, and so has Mrs. I-Ieely, talks with you and tea with you, and various other unpremeditated pleasures which the year together has brought forth. We shall look long for better neighbors and more satisfying friends. It has meant much to the School as a whole that you have been cooperative, intelli- gent, and responsive. It is an old Lawrenceville saying, reminiscent of unhappy Republican memories of the last national election, that was goes the fifth form, so goes the School. The saying is no less true because it is old. The problems of administra- tion and morale in a school of this size are dilhcult, subtle, and intangible. That they have been on the whole so seldom troublesome and so happily solved is largely due to your performance. Iior this the School is sincerely grateful. Ihit it is not with gratitude that I am mainly concerned in this brief valedictory which you have courteously permitted me to make. What I Willll to say finally and with full emphasis and sincerity is that you have left your imprint not only on the history of Lawrenceville, but on our hearts. We shall follow your progress with an interest which you will discover to be sympathetic and inexhaustible. Under the necessary artiliciality of barriers and regulations which school life is bound to repre- sent, we have come to look upon you as our friends. It is the faith of schools that they may make some permanent contribution to the lives of their studentsg that they may have some hand in the great job of making boys into men. I hope, therefore, that part of you is imperishably Lawrenceville, and I hope it is the best part. IDo not, we beg of you, let your affection for this place grow cold. You can mean much to it in the future. as it has meant much to you in the past. We hope you will keep coming back to us, for the School lives only in the lives of its sons. Whenever you come we shall welcome you with warmth and affection. May all good fortune go with youl ALLAN V. I'IEELY Fomlewz

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