Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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POPE ' S FASTIDIOUSNESS GAVE ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING

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THE COLLEGE The time elapsing between the discovery of intaglio printing and Its practical application stretched itself out over generations, for though the intaglio principle was revealed in 1452, no truly useful development came out of it until 1785, when Bell, an Englishman, patented a process for printing textiles from rollers cut in the intaglio manner. Then, more than one hundred years later, the Austrian, Karl Kleitsch. took Bell ' s textile printing machine and improved upon it by etching its rollers in accordance with the principles of halftone making which Fox Talbot had discovered in 1852. Kleitsch found that, from rollers prepared in this way, he could print strik- ingly beautiful reproductions of photographs. The next year he suc- ceeded in interesting Story Brothers of Lancaster. England, in his discovery. With their backing he established the Rembrandt Com- pany, the first commercial rotogravure plant in history, which devoted itself with great success to the reproductions of fine etchings and paintings.

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Each year, with the opening of College and the coming of a new group of first year students, we often wonder how the campus life will differ from the former years. Usually we find certain boys and girls going together and certain groups organizing for various reasons but there is always a strong spirit of co-operation intermingled with a keen rivalry which adds interest. While the organizations remain almost the same from year to year, it can be easily sensed that there are mark.ed signs of progress in almost every phase of campus life. It can truly be said of the year-round program of campus life that ample time is given for development in all the major spheres of activity. FEW WORDS PERTAINING TO THE GENERAL VIEW ON CAMPUS LIFE