Hamilton Collegiate Institute - Vox Lycei Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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Easter V O X the editors or reporters. Harold gritted his teeth as he made his decision: The Ledger is going to score this beat: I'll get the extra out myself and beat The Times to the street. He rushed to the composing room and told the men on the night jig to get the forms made up for an extra-the strike was over. ls the story in yet? asked the fore- man. UNO, just the flash. but it's enough for the two seven-column lines, 'Strike Set- tled,' in the biggest type you've got, and underneath, 'Capital and Labor Com- promise.' l'll rush the story down just as soon as Bray wires it in. You'll have to get hold of a stereo- typer and a pressman, warned the fore- man. l guess they're all at the ball game, but our men are not playing, while all The Times pressman are on the team. A sure beat. By good luck Harold found the news- paper wholesaler at home, and in a few minutes newsboys all over the town were being given the tip, Ledger extra coming out. Get down town quick! There was only one way to get a stereo- typer and the pressman from the park in quick time, and Harold did what he knew the managing editor would have done in the same case. He hired a taxi driver who knew the members of The Ledger staff, and sent him off to the park with strict instructions to get the men away quietly, so as to gain a march on The Times. Among his other duties in the editorial rooms, Harold had charge of the photo- graphs and cuts, and he knew that The Ledger had pictures of all the men who were sitting in the conference which had so unexpectedly settled the big coal strike. There were eight of them, four repre- senting the mine owners, and four the workers. Harold gathered all the cuts, L Y U E I 1921 wrote the names of the men underneath, and took them to the composing room to be run in the extra. Over one group he wrote, Fought for the Workers, and over the other, Protected Mine lnterestsf' When Harold returned to the business office, the telegraph boy was just coming in with Bray's second message, the con- densed story of the concessions made on both sides and the terms of the agree- ment which had been signed. The terms, Harold saw at a glance, would be highly popular in Carbonvilleg it would mean a return of old prosperity, and prevent the calling of strikes for a long time. Harold picked out a few important sen- tences from the dispatch and twisted them into suitable headings, then rushed to the composing room with the copy. He saw with delight that the stereotyper and the pressmen had just arrived, and chuckled when told that The Times' men had no inkling of the situation. Meanwhile, a yelling pack of newsboys had started to arrive, and soon a hundred or more were crowding the mailing room, clamoring for the press to start. When it did, and Harold grabbed the first copy of the extra and scanned the flaring head- lines, he had the supreme joy of knowing that once again The Ledger had scored a beat. The boys sold eight thousand copies in two hours. x- we ar- That was a dandy extra last night, said the managing editor next morning. Who got it out? The other desk man looked at him in astonishment. Why, we thought you did. Better ask Harold: he was on 'kick duty,' and he'll know. There was a puzzling frown on the managing editor's face as he went into the next room to see the boy, but a quiz- zical smile when he returned and said: We need a new office boy: Harolcl's junior reporter now. QQ

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Easter V O X L Y U E I 1921 lj WHE OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS ill! :-: -- -- :-: :-:-1:-: :-: :-:a :-: Ross Lymburner AROLD JACKSON thought it hard luck that he should have to be on kick duty at the Ledger office on that Fine evening when The Ledger team clashed with The Times baseball nine. but it was Thursday, and every Thursday he had to stay in the business office from seven to ten in the evening to take care of complaints about the non-delivery of newspapers. Harold really belonged to the editorial department, where he had been office boy for nine months, and kick duty was extra work. Some day Harold hoped to be a reporter and he had already had the pleasure of seeing items which he had written, appear in print on several occa- sions. The Ledger was an evening paper, and so was The Times. As usual, the news- papers were keen rivals. There was a possibility that an extra might come out in the course of the next few days, for the great mine strike, which had almost para- lyzed all industries in Carbonville, stood some chance of being settled. Late that afternoon a conference between the mine owners and the labor leaders had opened in the neighboring town of Shafton, but it was not expected that much headway would be made for a day or so. lf they settle the strike it's certainly worth an extra, Harold had heard the managing editor say to the men on the reporter's staff. Better get down some copy reviewing what started the trouble. the loss in wages and business, and all that. , Harold had taken down the copy later in the day, and he knew that it was al- ready in type. waiting for word of the settlement to come from Shafton. A telegraph messenger came whistling into The Ledger office and tossed a mes- sage to Harold. How's 'kicks.' to-night, he asked, as Harold signed the delivery slip. Light, only five so far. The Ledger carriers are right on the job all the time. just like the telegraph boys. eh? grinned the other. So long, l've got to get down to The Times now-same mess- age, he added with a wink. We'll see that the 'same message' is, thought Harold. lt was an office rule at The Ledger that whoever received a busi- ness telegram must open it at once, and take it to the proper department. It was a Hash message of just three words: Strike settled. Compromise, and signed Bray. Bray was the reporter who was attend- ing the strike convention. He had rushed the bare facts of the big news, and was doubtless getting the details of the settle- ment, which he would telegraph later. It meant an extra--the best kind of an extra, too-one with good news. Harold knew the value of seconds in the case of getting out an extra. He jumped to the phone and called up the managing editor's house. This is The Ledger speaking. l want Mr. Burleson, please. Sorry, came the answer, but he's gone out for an auto ride and won't be back until eleven o'clock. Any message? No, thank you, It will be too late by that time. Harold then called up the city editor's home. Someone said that he had gone fishing. They do not answer, said Centrial, after repeated efforts to get the telegraph editor and the senior reporter. Most of the other members of the edi- torial staff, Harold knew, were at the base- ball game. It was impossible to get in touch with them. Precious minutes had already been lost. The telegraph boy had said: l've got the same message for The Times. It was a clear case of getting beaten on the big story of the year if he waited until he got in touch with one of

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V O X L Y li' E I 1921 Easter 'E1'5i3512r'i'cF of R AL A MATER 0 ci , , , . . ,,YYYY. . , , . ' - r 1 1 1- ' , Z ioiocoio c'm1c,0,0,'0u0 Otto 0.c,l,0.t.o 0,011 0 l 0 s 0 I U I 0 0 0 Q 0 0 l 0 0 0 9'g.Q...q'5.o.s.u.o.o.o.i.l't I 0 0 U 0 0 to-imSacco!Josie!DUJOQUQIJOQOZ-mJIiI,l O c ODI 0 0 0 0 030 0 0 0 0 A 0 l 0 Principal J. B. Turner. N educational institution, such as our collegiate institute is, fills a very important place in the city. lts functions are so varied that it is difficult to select just what will be of greatest in- terest to the readers of The Vox. It will not, perhaps, be without interest to the present members of the school to know something of its past. From the old grammer school with one or two masters the institute has had a healthy growth until the present time. ln its early years it was one of the three or four outstanding schools of its kind in the Province, and for that reason attracted students from all quarters. Since that time, however. effi- cient high schools and collegiate insti- tutes have come into existence in every city and town and many of the villages of the province, so that it is not now neces- sary for pupils to go far from home to obtain a high school education. The Hamilton collegiate institute has, perhaps, to a greater extent than any other collegiate institute, exerted an inHuence on the educational progress of the prov- ince. ln the year l895 when the provin- cial department of education determined to have every candidate for a high school teacher's certificate undergo a course of special training, just as had been done for some years previous with candidates for public school teacher's certificates, our lnstitute was selected as one in connection with which this work was to be done, Later. when the value of such professional training was more fully recognized the department of education determined to organize a college for this work and again the Hamilton collegiate institute was selected tnd the normal college was or- ganized and our present building was opened in September, IB97, to accommo- date the normal college as well as the collegiate institute. The two institutions worked together successfully for a number of years. Now again the department of education has asked us to co-operate in the work of training of teachers, so that it is quite within the mark to say that the Hamilton collegiate institute has exerted a powerful influence on the progress of education, not only in our own province, but also in the other parts of our dominion, for numbers of those who received their training in our institute are engaged in the educational work in our western prov- inces. Cn the purely academic side of its work our institute has a very Hne record. Many of our graduates have risen to em- inence. Among these are found outstand- ing figures in industrial and commercial enterprises. ln the professions many have achieved distinction, others have become colloge professors in art, in science and medicine, while others are successful teachers of the youth of our land. Such a record should be an incentive to the pupils of to-clay with their greater oppor- tunities to reach out for still greater achievements. At the time of the founding of the col- legiate institute the courses of study were classics and mathematics, the modern languages and our own language received only slight recognition, while experiments in science were looked upon as something with which to amuse the pupils. Since that time there have been great changes in the courses of study. Gradually there came about an increased interest in the study of English literature and composi- tion, until to-day these subjects, rightly, occupy a leading place in the curriculum. With the changing conditions in indus- try and commerce there came correspond- ing changes in the courses of study. Busi- ness relationships with foreign countries necessitated a more thorough study of the modern languages. The extensive applications of the discoveries of science brought the study of science to the front, so that now a secondary school, that is