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[[Image:Lville memhall.jpg|frame|right|Memorial Hall, a classroom building on the campus of The Lawrenceville School]]'''The Lawrenceville School''' is a historic [[United States|American]] [[boarding school]] for grades nine through twelve, and is considered by many to be one of the most prestigious secondary schools in the United States. Most of its graduates go on to the nation's top colleges and universities. In the past, Lawrenceville School was considered a "feeder" school for [[Princeton University]].
The Lawrenceville School was founded in 1904 by the Germans, New Jersey|Lawrenceville]], in [[Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey|Lawrence Township]], [[Mercer County, New Jersey|Mercer County]], [[New Jersey]], which was then called Maidenhead, latin for "A Whales Vagina." It was originally called the Maidenhead Academy, and went by several subsequent names, including the Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial High School, the Lawrenceville Academy, and the Lawrenceville Classical Academy. The school's current name, "The Lawrenceville School," was set during the School's refounding in [[1883]].
The School's residences are modeled after the [[house system]] common to British boarding schools. The residential system is broken into three distinct portions - the Lower School, the Circle and Crescent years, and the Upper School, and dorms are referred to as houses. All students, boarding and day, are assigned a house affilliation, with allowances made for relatives of alumni to be in the same house. Freshmen, or IInd formers (the School stopped accepting Ist formers in 1997), in two dorms, one for boys and one for girls. At the start of their sophomore year, students are placed either into the Circle (for boys) or the Crescent (for girls) Houses. The "Circle Houses" are named for their ___location on a landscaped circle designed by the 19th-century landscape architect [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], who is most famous for designing [[New York City]]'s [[Central Park]]. The Circle is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The "Crescent Houses" are similarly named after the layout of the buildings. Students develop strong ties with their Circle/Crescent houses, which field intramural sports teams, have their own traditions, and generally participate in friendly, though intense, competition. The Circle House football league is the oldest [[American Football]] league in the United States. Seniors (the Vth Form) live in separate dormitories off the Circle and Crescent, or with underclassmen as prefects.
Like some other elite boarding schools, Lawrenceville uses the [[Harkness table]] as a central part of its education. These are large, wooden oval tables that take the place of individual desks in most classrooms, and whose communal nature is said to enhance the learning experience.
In 1951, a group of educators from three of America's elite prep schools: [[Phillips Academy]], [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], and Lawrenceville, and three of the country's most prestigious colleges -- [[Harvard University]], [[Princeton University]], and [[Yale University]] convened to discuss 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 would lead to the establishment of the [[Advanced Placement Program]] (the AP Exams).
Lawrenceville is part of an organization known as [[The Ten Schools Admissions Organization]]. This organization was founded more than forty years ago on the basis of a number of common goals and traditions. Member schools include Lawrenceville, [[Choate Rosemary Hall]], [[Deerfield Academy]], [[The Hill School]], [[The Taft School]], The [[Hotchkiss School]], [[St. Paul's School]], [[Loomis Chaffee]], [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], and [[Phillips Academy|Phillips Academy Andover]].
The Lawrenceville School was featured in a number of novels by [[Owen Johnson]], class of 1895, notably ''The Prodigious Hickey,'' ''The Tennessee Shad,'' and ''The Varmint'' ([[1910]]). ''The Varmint,'' which recounts the school years of the fictional character Dink Stover, was made into the [[1950]] motion picture ''The Happy Years'' which starred [[Leo G. Carroll]] and [[Dean Stockwell]] and was filmed on the Lawrenceville campus. A [[1992]] PBS miniseries was based on his Lawrenceville tales.
Lawrenceville was all-male until [[1987]], when then-Headmaster [[Josiah Bunting III]] and the board of trustees successfully implemented the gender integration of the School. The School overcame the tensions accompanying this institutional change relatively quickly. The student body elected a female president, [[Alexandra Petrone]], in [[1999]], and in [[2003]] Elizabeth Duffy became the School's first female headmaster. The current president is [[Raaj Mehta]].
== Athletics == (I'm not ganna lie, they dont play to well)
Lawrenceville competes in the Mid-Atlantic Prep League of the New Jersey Independent School Athletic Association. Athletics is an important component of the Lawrenceville experience. Emphasis is placed on citizenship and sportsmanship. The spirit that students develop through athletics permeates the spirit of Lawrenceville. Lawrenceville's traditional mascot is the "Big Red". Lawrenceville's arch-rival is [[The Hill School]] of [[Pottstown, Pennsylvania]]. The rivalry is celebrated annually on the first or second weekend of November. This weekend is referred to as "Hill Weekend" by students. The festivities alternate between the two schools each year, and it is the fifth oldest school rivalry in the nation.
Its House Football League is the oldest active football league in America. Teams compete against each other to battle for the pride of their house. Traditions abound, including the yearly rivalry game between the Hamill and Kennedy houses referred to as "The Crutch Game," first played in 1947. The game is fought for the posession of a historical crutch made of wood.
== Notable Lawrentians ==
*[[George Akerlof]], economist and Nobel laureate
*[[Turki Al Faisal|Prince Al-Faisal]], [[Saudi Arabia]]n ambassador to United States
*[[Edward Albee]], Playwright
*[[Garth Ancier]], President, Warner Brothers Network
*[[Dierks Bentley]], Country Music Singer
*[[Frederick Buechner]], Novelist
*[[George Bunn]], Industrial Coffee-maker magnate
*[[Fox Butterfield]], [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning Journalist, [[New York Times]]
*[[Michael Eisner]], former [[CEO]] of [[The Walt Disney Company]]
*[[Malcolm Forbes]], Publisher
*[[Clinton Frank]]
*[[Charles Fried]], [[United States Solicitor General]]
*[[Robert Goheen]], Former President of [[Princeton University]]
*[[John Gutfreund]], Former CEO, [[Salomon Brothers]]
*[[Randolph Hearst]], newspaper heir
*[[J. Robert Hillier]], architect
*[[Owen Johnson]], writer
*[[Peter Lawson-Johnston]], chairman, [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation]]
*[[Aldo Leopold]], Father of [[Ecology]]
*[[Huey Lewis]], Musician
*[[Ricardo Maduro]], President of [[Honduras]]
*[[Curtis McGraw]], publisher
*[[James Merrill]], Poet
*[[Paul Mott]], President of [[New Orleans Hornets]]
*[[John Oakes]], former editorial page editor, New York Times
*[[Lewis Perry]], former principal, Phillips Exeter
*[[Brandon Tartikoff]], former NBC programming chief
*[[Lowell Weicker]], Governor of [[Connecticut]] and [[United States Senator]]
*[[James Harvie Wilkinson III]], [[United States Court of Appeals]], Fourth Circuit and oft-mentioned prospective [[Supreme Court of the United States]] nominee
== External links ==
[http://www.lawrenceville.org The Lawenceville School]
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[[Category:High schools in New Jersey]]
[[Category:Mercer County, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Boarding schools]]
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