Manual Training High School - Prospect Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

Page 23 text:

The Athletics Editor comes next. It is his duty to report every Manual athletic event of importance and he docs this by conferring with the teach- ers in charge, the captains and the managers of the various teams. It is best, for a good report, that he see the games himself and this he does whenever practicable. Newspaper clip- pings also furnish a valuable aid. The Girls' Athletics Editor gets her mate- rial in essentially the same manner. Manual likes to keep in touch with ner graduates so the Alumni Editoi takes care of that. lle writes letters to the graduates at the colleges and they send him information of our old students. Teachers in the school who keep in touch with former Manualites also help out and newspapers and a number of associations form good sources of news too. We receive a number of exchanges from other schools every month and so an Exchange Editor reads them and makes comments as to their worth and opportunities for improvement. He also suggests, by comparison with these, how our own book can be altered benefieally. The Joke Editor scours the school for choice samples of students' origin- ality, though he gets humor from other sources too. The Art Editors are very important as they must make the cover design for the issue, in case there is no con- test on, and all cuts, up to the ex- tent for the money appropriated for such work. The ideas for these cuts come from the material being gathered, for the editors must confer with the rest of the staff in order that their work be appropriate. The cartoonist does not adhere so much to that idea for he takes any likely notion that fits well with the happenings in school. He is more or less of a free lance. Now, in the meantime, the editor-in- chief has conferred with the business manager on the subject of the size of the book, in other words, the number of pages. Usually forty pages are wanted but sometimes forty-four or more are desired. As this publication is run strictly on a business basis, it is absolutely necessary, in the latter case, to consult the business end. He in turn, is governed by printer 's rates, engraver's rates, advertising returns, circulation and the amount of money to the credit of the Prospect. The de- cision is given and when the time comes the book is made up in ac- cordance with that decision. The date at which copy, our name for the material, is due arrives and the task of correcting it is begun. As each assistant editor has charge of a department or departments, he is re- sponsible for the correction of the copy of that department. The editor and the teacher in charge help in copy cor- rection to facilitate the work. The aim is to rectify not only grammatical er- rors but erroneous ideas. In case the article is unfit for use it is revised if necessary. All the acceptable material is then sent to the printer, who prints it on long narrow sheets of numbered pink and white paper, of about the width of a column. These pink and white proofs are called galley, and are duplicates of each other. The proof is sent to the Prospect and the White galley is corrected, or proof read by means of proof-reader's correction marks. The assistant editors perform this duty with the aid of the editor and the teacher in charge. The Twenty-one

Page 22 text:

How the Prospect is Made Paid-One dime. Result--to the student body-ten cents worth of good, snappy reading. To the Prospect staffha deal of enjoyment in our work and criticisms, mostly the latter. And the reason for this latter is that you donit realize what an amount of real work is entailed by issuing just one will you 1nonth's publication. Hence this not be an argument to convince of how utterly indispensable the school publication is to your welfare, but it will be an exposition of our job. On the same day the book is present- ed to the student body, a meeting of the staff is held. Here the issue is gone over thoroughly and its weak points discussed, figuratively raked over the coals. At the same time, those responsible for the good points or the bad are commended or censured, as the case may be. Suggestions are now made for the improvement of the next issue. Timely subjects for edi- torials are presented and those who feel inspired to write on them are given sanction to do so. However most of that work is done by the as- sistant editors and the editor. The meeting terminates with the announce- ment of the date by which the material for the next issue is due. Here, too, ends the first step of the job. The worst is yet to come. The heads of the various depart- ments immediately begin gathering their material. They apportion the work to their assistants, paying par- ticular attention to any special articles that may have been assigned by the Twenty editor. But the best part of it is, the whole staff works on its own initiative, merely adhering to the general plan of the kind of news they must have. And here's the way they go about it. General News is the most important division and is headed by three Gen- eral News Editors who have under them a staff of reporters. The latter are assigned divers events to cover Cre- portj, according to the discretion of their superiors. They must watch closely the bulletin board and follow up all rumors of anything doing. All must pay close attention to the con- versation of the student body, for that is the barometer of the sehool's activi- ties. General News as a whole must be thoroughly wide awake for no dead ones can hope to succeed. The activities 'of societies are next on the list. According to the name, one might think it meant only those associations organized for social af' fairs, but such is not the case. It in- cludes all the clubs of Manual, of which there are a large number. To take care of these, we have one editor and assistants. The last cover what they are assigned, their superior tak- ing what he pleases. The work is done by asking the secretaries of the sev- eral clubs to make a thorough report of all their society's activities. Then a suitable revision of these reports is made by the society editor and his as- sistants. VVhere there are no secre- taries or where it is impossible for news to be secured in any way, those responsible go after it themselves.

Page 24 text:

pink galley is then taken in hand by the editor. An old Prospect of the same number of pages as the pros- pective book is procured from the files, and the dummy, as this is called, is made. The editor has decided before- hand, though in a rather general man- ner, where he wants each article to go. There are two columns to a page and he cuts up the pink galley to lit these columns. Most of the time, however he has a great deal more material than he can fit into the dummy and hence he has the added trouble of deciding what to use, besides the difficulty of arranging it advantageously. The whole job is a most trying and time consuming one, well calculated to try one 's temper. Oft times there are spaces left at the end of an article which cannot be used. Hence a joke or witticism of some kind is introduced as a space filler. Of course it must be just the size required. V VVhere the old cuts, which, by the way, are the drawings prepared for use in the Prospect, are to be used, the edi- tor tits in his galley so that they will appear in the proper place. But Where new cuts are to be used, he pastes in proofs of them where they will appear to the best advantage. The advertise- ments, on the other hand, are arranged in the dummy by the advertising man- ager, usually according to the position called for in the patron's contract. And now that the dummy is made up, it is sent, along with the corrected galleys, to the printer. He makes up the page proof as indicated by the posi- tion of the articles in the pages of the dummy and sends it back to the Pros- pect. We now have a sample of how the publication will appear in print, with Twenty-two the exception that it is not bound in book form. The page proof is proof read by the editor and the teacher in charge. As soon as that operation is completed, the corrected proof is sent back to the printer, who now proceeds to print the pages and to bind them in book form. All that now remains to be done is to distribute the books by means of the circulation depart- ment to the students. Though not directly concerned in the making of the Prospect, the busi- ness staff is just as important as the literary staff, for one could not exist without the other. And because of this it is best to save an explanation of how the Prospect is managed and circulated for a future article. All that now remains for you to do, since the publication is made, is to procure one dime, buy the book and realize and appreciate the Work of the more than thirty people concerned in its production. Willian1, said the Sunday School teacher who had been giving a lesson on the baptismal covenant, Can you tell me the two things necessary to baptism? William- Yes'm, Water ' and a baby. 77 Nicoll who assists Dr. San Giovanni with the late-comers, was one day ac- costed thusly. What time shall I write on my slip? The clock on the desk says 9:07 and the clock on the wall says 9 :01'? What's the odds! replied Nieoll. You should have been here at 9 any- how. VVar is --. Sherman translate.