Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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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

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IIPD table as the boys. sharing with them the very place where in other days he used to seal their doom. The digressions which so rarely used to visit a classroom are now welcomed and discussed, and no one sulfers from the discussion. Thus, at the point which the Conference System most touches, we are impressed by the completeness and entirety ol' its success. It is the natural uway for teacher and pupil to get together, and bring out the best in each. Continuing our walk through the buildings, we are next struck by the beauty ol' the exalted Memorial Hall and the Fathers' Building. The interior of the revered Ml D WF! Mem Hall looks far different from the once austere and forbidding edifice which used to frown down on the School. Pop Hall looks as it always has, only more so: new, dapper, and efficient. XVe stroll out of spotless Pop Hall, feeling as though we had seen all there was to see. and there before us we behold the foundation which will eventually support the Administration Building. Here the faculty will be housed, apart from the noise of period changes and exuberant Laurentians. This building will be modeled after the style of the Iohn Dixon Library, virtually becoming the library's twin sisterg and so popular a pair of twins will in all probability never again come to the little town about live miles away from anywheref, Eigfzteen