Show Students Crave Innovation tJ Yearbooks Subject of Examination t P W Not Nota a New Idea in a Carload Reward of will be paid to the person or persons publishing a a. college yearbook with an entirely new idea Anyone would be perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- safe in posting such a reward reward re re- reward re- re ward if conditions exis existing ing in publishing publishing publishing pub pub- lishing yearbooks for the past thirty years should continue as S they undoubtedly will for the next few years y ars This statement is made le despite the fact that ever every time a college newspaper writes about its yearbook yearbook yearbook year year- book it invariably declares that the yearbook will win be noted for its unique and original ideas When the book appears the uniqueness and originality must be found with witha a microscope Perhaps the page from borders are a trifle different those used th the year before perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps the athletic letic- letic pages are grouped group group- ed a little differently perhaps the theart theart art w work rk is a little more ore professional professional professional in some cases cases fit it is done by a professional eliminating one of the reasons for having student publications perhaps the he book is larger t the e printing engraving binding and paper bills are larger but nothing about such things makes the book either cither unique or original There have been two decided trends in colle college e yearbooks during dUling t the th forty or fifty years annuals have been published The first trend is quite quiJe marked in the elimination elimination elimination nation of much literary material and the concentration on pictures In many respects this trend is quite worthy especially when one reads the stories essays poems embalm embalm- embalmed ed in in- books published during the dear gay nineties as memories of college days beyond recall Class histories prophecies and statistics generally allegedly humorous are contained in the annuals of former years Today prophecies and statistics statistics statistics sta sta- sta- sta are a thing of the past and class histories are kept to the minimum minimum minimum min min- or represented in pictures Pictures and cold hard records are the chief stock in trade of the modern modem yearbook The other trend to be noted inc in c college yearbooks is that of increasing increasing increasing in in- creasing size and display from year to year To a certain extent this is natural as ns every new staff in order to get th the usually stressed uniqueness and originality must either make the page larger add more pages obtain a more expensive expensive expensive sive binding or add more color I work College students here are arc merely following the tho American idea that bigger is a synonym for better |