Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
A UNIVERSITY PRESS
University Of Pennsylvanls to Do lts
Own PrlntIng--AII Work stand b.
ardIxed--charIes Il. Clarke
Manager and Adviser
by GEORGE NOx MCCAIN

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THE University of Pennsylvania Press will
i be its official title.
1t has been long time coming. Almost
every other great university in England
and America has its own printing press.
Pennsylvania has finally caught up to the
There may be some inclined to criticize
the name. Instead of the University Of
Pennsylvania. Press i might have sounded
more enphonious to have called 1t Press OF
the University of Pennsylvania.
But that is a small affair alongside the
fact that the University will hereafter do
its own printing.
1t has been the custom in the past when
ever job of any magnitude was to be done
for the University to invite competition
among printing houses.
1t often led to ruinous trade cutting. 1t
often provoked business animosities.
NOR the present there will be no physical
l. plant established for the University
Press
The entire mechanical establishment of a
large printing concern in this city will be
at its disposal on n cost plus basis.
This eliminates the necessity of investing
several hundrcd thousand dollars in a plant.
One of the greatest benefits to the Cniver-
sity will be the Standardization of all its
printed matter and books. They will be
appearance.
layed competition. The work will be in the
hands of master printers who will under
stand what Is wanted. and to whom faculty.
students and outside contributors can 60
with confidence and understanding.
Better still, this new addition to the re-
sources Of the University confers upon It
a distinction that comports with its size and
Importance as one of the worlds greatest
universities.
Solely as an advertisement its value is
unreasonable.
HARVARD, Yale, Princeton, Columbia
IL and Chicago in this country, and Ok
ford and Cambridge in England, have presses
of their own
The Scribncrs have been Interested in the
Princeton Press and Rockefeller has been the
bright angel of the Chicago University Press.
Oxford and Cambridge Presses date back for
years. -.
The University of Chicago Press in the
ten years of it's existence has published forty
| volumes Of scholarly books under the care Of
the university.
Its list now totals 800 publications Of
| various kinds in addition to thirteen periodi-
Gals; ooo Its Its business for one year exceeded
In a communication on the subject. n
member of its university expressed the view
| that three times the expenditure OF the
| money could not advertise the University Of
| Chicago more widely or favoraby.
The trustees of the University of Penn
sylvania having the new press in charge
| wisely view this question from the same
angle.
TNHE faculty, graduate and student pub
i lications of the University of Pennsyl-
vania number nineteen.
| In normal times 27O 900 copies Of these
| are published annually. at a cost of $40 .000
| There is also a varying amount expended
for learned works Of the faculty and stu
| dents.
Under the new ARRANGEMENT the number Of
tt
character of these publications will no longer
| be of the hybrid sort in Typography and
makeup; the whim of the job printer who
| undertook the work.
Of Pennsylvania Press will have a distinc-
| tive characteristic. 1t will bear the imprint
| of the University.
| There is but one exception 10 this general
order of things: the student papers will
continue publication outside as heretofore.
Ultimately, however, the University Press
will take in all publications.
| CHARLES II. CLARKE has been ap-
| Y pointed manager of the University Press
and printing adviser to the University. That
| is his official title.
| Mr.. Clarke is known to every master
printer in Philadelphia He has been at the
head of the printing department of the John
c. Winston Co. for twenty years; 49, w.,
versity and it's printing affairs for thirty
two years He is business manager of the
| Pennsylvania Gazette, the ofhcial weekly OF
the board of trustees.
| He is also business manager OF the Church
News of the Diocese OF Pennsylvania OF the
Protestant Episcopni Church; lie IL lounuel
and director of the Parish Messenger of thu
Church of the Saviour the unique maga
zine or lts klho IN th,s country. .., 4,
He has been directly connected with thu
printing work Of the University under three
provosts-Pepper, Harrison and Smith.
| lie is MEMBER OF the chion Leasue ah'
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