Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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THE CLASSES Almost three centuries after movable type was invented, printing was still slow, expensive, and limited, for the practice of printing directly from type forms composed of individual type characters meant that great masses of type had to be held until the job was completed. William Ged, an Edinburgh jeweler, in 1725, discovered that by making an impression of a type page on a plaster of Paris mold he could cast any number of solid printing plates. Confident that he would make a fortune with his discovery, Ged went to London and formed a partnership. However, the printers, afraid that stereotyping would minimize their services, organized against him so successfully that the partnership failed and Ged, broken-hearted, returned to Edinburgh where he soon died a pauper. Years later, Ged ' s daughter revealed that her father had received generous offers from the Dutch, which he refused, for patriotic motives.

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' The dignity of history. ' They prize books who are themselves wise. . ' To find a cosmic ray. ' Science only will one genius fit. ' Is there no play! ' ' A scholar knows no Page Twenty-five

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THRIFTY SCOTCH JEWELER CUT THE COST OF PRINTING