The Lawrenceville School: 200 Years Strong and Counting...

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<p>Congratulations to The Lawrenceville School which is celebrating its bicentennial in 2010.</p>

<p>200 years strong. </p>

<p>While there may be more celebrated prep schools here on CC (e.g. Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, etc.), let’s give a little credit where credit is due. There is only a select handful of secondary schools in the US that has achieved what L-ville has over such a consistent span of time, and as such, it rightfully belongs alongside those aforementioned peer institutions (as evidenced by L-ville’s membership in the Ten School Admission Organization, Eight School Association (Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, St. Paul’s, Hotchkiss, Choate, NMH and L-ville) and G20 schools. Here is an interesting historical tidbit that few people know (from Wiki):</p>

<p>In 1951, a group of educators from three of the United States’s elite prep schools (Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy, and Phillips Exeter Academy) and three of the country’s most prestigious colleges (Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University) convened to examine the best use of the final two years of high school and the first two years of college. This committee published a final report, General Education in School and College, through Harvard University Press in 1952, which subsequently led to the establishment of the Advanced Placement Program (the AP Exams).</p>

<p>To this amazing institution and to all past, current and future faculty, students, alumni and the greater academic community: thank you and congratulations Lawrenceville, and here is to the next 200 years.</p>

<p>From a proud and grateful alumnus. Virtus Semper Viridis.</p>

<p>homepage:
[The</a> Lawrenceville School - Home](<a href=“http://lvweb02.lawrenceville.org/index.asp]The”>http://lvweb02.lawrenceville.org/index.asp)</p>

<p>a great shot of its historic campus:
[The</a> Lawrenceville School: A Bicentennial Portrait](<a href=“http://www.lawrenceville.org/about/news/bicentennial/bicentennial_book_cover.asp]The”>http://www.lawrenceville.org/about/news/bicentennial/bicentennial_book_cover.asp)</p>

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<p>fif joins you in celebrating Lawrenceville’s anniversary and would be even more excited about it if the Larries hadn’t told him to pound sand in 1969.</p>

<p>Recommended reading: Owen Johnson’s The Lawrenceville Stories.</p>

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<p>lol fif,</p>

<p>it sounds like you turned out just fine! great book btw, know it well.</p>

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<p>AHA ! Finally ! I have figured fif out ! You must have attended Lawrenceville ! It makes so much sense. I have inferred that you went to Princeton - not sure how I know that but I do. Therefore you attending Lawrenceville makes all the sense in the world. either Lawrenceville, SPS, or Groton although I am leaning towards Groton or Lawrenceville. I will not stop trying to figure this mystery out. I will figure this out! </p>

<p>Congrats Lawrenceville on your 200th ! It is an absolutely superb institution no doubt about that.</p>

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<p>Kafka –</p>

<p>Ummmm, yeah. Suggest you look up “pound sand”. Try the Urban Dictionary.</p>

<p>Princeton was never on fif’s radar screen, but Dartmouth told him to pound sand too.</p>

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<p>Lawrenceville has a beautiful campus, is in a great location and has strong academics. It certainly deserves to be part of any acronym that references great boarding schools.</p>

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<p>pound sand=go fly a kite
love the picture it’s amazing</p>

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<p>Fif probably didn’t go to any one of the obnoxious ten schools</p>

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<p>[A</a> $60 Million Bequest to The Lawrenceville School - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/education/16lawrenceville.html]A”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/education/16lawrenceville.html)</p>