New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
Parents Visit
School After
Pahlow Custer
Thirty Autos Bring Families
for Conferences as Law
renceville Bizxes With
Excitement and RumOrs
Two Students Dismissed
Professor d enies Sex
Instruction Caused His
and Wife's Dismissal
r,s,.;,,l p;spasch TO The Tribune


,AwgENCEVILLE, N. j.. March 20.
ua;or W. Abbott, headmaster of Law
-.,.eyiIle School. to-day refused to dis
-. the dismissal of Professor Edwin
VI pshlow and his wife, Mrs. Gertrude
n.rtis Pahlow, from the faculty. He
s,s,,srd to affirm or deny that both had
Assn dismissed on account of Mrs. Pah-
laws alleged sex talks with students,
snd when newspaper men attempted to
;,.sryiew him he only smiled and said;
81 have nothing to say"
The dismissal of Professor Pahlow
end Mrs. Pahlow from the faculty after
seysn years service caused ripple of
excitement in the aristocratic little
school to-day, after the publication
ef their statements in The New York
Tribune this morning.
Professor Pahlow denied to-day that
snv allegation concerning his wife had
ANYTHING to do with their dismissal.
"The report that it was brought about
bv her giving sex information to the
hoys under our charge in Kennedy
House is too ridiculous to be COM
mented upon" he said 1.-THE trustees
Of the school, when the matter comes
before them, will bear me out in this"
The statements Of Mrs Pahlow are
the basis for dozens of rumors, the
most persistent being one that other
members of the faculty are to be called
upon the carpet.
Major Abbott admitted yesterday
that two boys had been fired during
tha last two weeks, but said that both
we're dismissed for smoking cigarettes
It was also rumored yesterday that two
members of the faculty had been called
before the headmaster in connection
with the Pahlow affair.
Pahlows Not at School
Professor Pahlow, who left Law
renceville last Tuesday with Mrs. Pah-
law, said last Saturday that her hus-
hand intended goirg to Princeton, and
that she believed him to be in that
place. Mrs. Pahlow went directly to
her home in Reading, Mass. following
her abrupt dismissal, and Saturday an
nounced her intention of finishing her
latest novel. The Bell. Mrs. Pahlow
wrote The Gilded Chrysalis, The Lure
Of Hearts Desire and The Glory of
Going On.
Henry W. Green, president of the
board of directors at Lawrenceville,
was not at his home in Trenton yes
terday
During the afternoon about thirty
automobiles, carrying parents of boys,
Students at the school, arrived. Many
secret conversations were IN order upon
the arrival of the parents. Major Alb
bott remained in his study all after
noon and received many callers.
Many Boys Under Sixteen
Many of the boys at Lawrencevil1e
are still under sixteen years of age, and
quite a few are still confined to short
trousers.
Further information relative to
meetings Of alumni, to be called in
New York. Princeton, Cambridge and
New Haven, to protest against the dis
missal Of the Pahlows. could not be
discovered yesterday. In her statement
Of Saturday Mrs. Pahlow declared that
William ("Big Bill'O Edwards, of New
York. was responsible for the calling
Of such a meeting in New York. but
Mr. Edwards could not be located yes
terday.
Mrs. Pahlow Saturday declared that
unless both she and her husband were
indicated by Major Abbott, Professor
Pahlow would mail letters to the
parents of the boys telling of "the true
condition at Lawrenceville." She re-
fused to say what the letters would
contain.