Provincial Institute of Technology and Art - Record Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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Tech-Art Record 1930-31 Edition It is an old college custom, one that probably originated in the days when Archimedes taught Greek Normal students, that at any seat of learning worthy of the name there must be published an annual volume purporting to be a record of the school year, but more often containing a long series of thinly-disguised wisecracks at the teachers, glowing remarks concerning the successes won by the school during the year, and modest alibis and excuses for those activities which failed to gain a place in the sun. In keeping with the established tradition the Institute entered the Year Book publication field three years ago, and now presents its third volume to the world. A hurried glance through the pages of the book reveals little of the tremendous amount of energy expended on the publication. Finished articles by the editorial stafl and contributors give few indications of the patient searches for accurate information, or the long hours spent in wrangling with words in order to produce readable pieces of writing. Between the lines of the biography section there is a story of diligent hunting for facts, systematic checking of class lists, and careful correcting of printers’ proofs. The advertising department gives but a slight glimpse of the endless detail work involved in selling advertising space, and the important business of managing the financial side of the publication receives small mention in the completed volume. The 1930-31 volume of Tech Art Record met with a full quota of difficulties and delays, but they have been overcome by the smallest staff the publication has ever had. The work received a late start due to the seeming impossibility of securing an ed itor, but the problem was solved by the return to Tech of Tom Moore, who brought to the task considerable experience gained through editing two volumes of The Emery Weal, publishing the Institute’s first Year Book, and acting as a newspaper correspondent and free lance writer for several years. In an endeavor to carry out continuous improvements to Tech Art Record, a considerable re-arrangement of the book has been made; certain departments have been enlarged, and others condensed, and special attention has been given to the art work. The em¬ bellishment of the volume was conducted as a class project by the Art department, the cover was designed by Miss Alma Cook, and nearly every Art student contributed to the work under the direction of Mr. Pearson and Mr. Leighton. As a student activity, the publishing of the Technical Institute Year Book ranks with the most important sponsored by the Associa¬ tion. Scores of students have, in one way or another, been actively associated with the work, and while the task has been hard, it has provided considerable enjoyment and instruction. Mention could be made of several ways in which students have benefited from their contact with the Year Book, but enough has been said already. As in the daily papers, so with Tech Art Record, “the news is the thing,” and since it is the lot of newspaper and Year Book staffs that they stay religiously in the background while devoting their energies to recording the events and activities of others than themselves, this article must come to a close. Page Fourteen

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