Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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TI-IE I-IARKNESS GIFT

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IIPD Tl-IE CDNFEIQ ENCE SYSTEM HE graduating class of 1937 has seen one of the greatest innovations at Law- renceville since the Iohn C. Green foundation years ago. The name of Harkness will be a magic one in years to come, for it is this name which made possible the doing away with the old stiff-backed desks and formal atmosphere. It made possible the shiny new conference tables and comfortable chairs in which we have reclined for the past yearg it made twelve-in-a-class the mystic l number here. The type of education for which Lawrenceville has ever been striving has at last been achieved. This system may no longer be spoken of as an experiment. It has been put to use in such great schools as Exeter and Lawrencevilleg it is a definite success. Both masters and boys have benefited from the great change. These two bodies may no longer be looked upon as opposing factions with a heavy and definite line between, but rather as a single unit striving for the same end. Lawrenceville is better for the unity. PX4 PX: Bl? 'Xi SF IX: ,Xi fl? We find, as we walk into one of the new classrooms, an entirely different atmosphere reHected. All of the classrooms have curtains hung, all contain some favorite books of the master in charge, usually on some subject pertinent to the one which this master teaches. In addition to this, we notice that the master sits around the same Seventeen