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Margaret:
the Grandmother:
Wait. I will read you one that I found today. It was my entrance examination. (She gets paper from |Mother:
desk.) ) Here it is. (Reads from pa- per ) There are questions in the vari- ous subjects. In arithmetic we had correct and rapid addition and writ- ten arithmetic to the end of vulgar fractions.
Margaret:
Grandmother, what is a vulgar fraction ? Common fractions are bad merry over the tea cups.
enough, but vulgar fractions- Grandmother:
Why, they are just the same as common fractions. (Continues read from paper.)
"In grammar we had definitions, easy sentences. In spelling we had Mother:
to write correctly three verses selec- ted from the New Testament. Some of the words we were required to spell were: Reconnoitre, arraign, ecstasy, idoisyncrasy, perspicacious, ecstasy, idiosyncrasy, perspicacious, synecdoche." Margaret :
1 am glad we don't have to spell words such as they. Mother:
Margaret, why were you so late? Margaret :
The Senior Class is preparing for their monthly dance, and I had to stay and plan for the evening's en- tertainment.
Grandmother:
We used to have monthly dances. too, but the one I best remember was the last one of the season. We danced those beautiful old fashioned steps of which you know nothing. We had a dancing master ot our school to perfect our skill in that line. The
Roger de Coverly.
a leading spirit in obtaining the ap- propriation from the Maryland State Legislature, that made possible the establishment of the school. He was Principal of the school from 1866 to 1890. It was the great desire of Dr. Newell that there be a dormitory in connection with the school, so that the county students would not have to board in the city. He was one of the leading educators of his day and many of the principles he advocated are only now being generally accept- ed in the schools.
Margaret:
Tell me something about Miss Richmond. of whom I have heard so much.
Grandmother:
I remember Miss Richmond well. I graduated in the same class with her. She had a very brilliant mind.
they not? belong? To which club did you Mary, was not Miss Richmond Prin- Mother:
cipal when you went to school? Mother:
Yes, from the time of her gradu- ation she climbed higher and higher. Her spirit was felt when as a student she entered the school. then later as an alumna. teacher, principal, mem- ber of the State Board and as a mem- ber of the Building Commission.
Oh, yes, I remember the Christmas wreaths that hung in Richmond Hall parlor, were given in memory of
not until Miss Tall became Principal | Miss Sara E. Richmond and very of the Normal School that the clubs soon we will be able to go there and were formed. But we had our good read the well known Harvard Clas- times, never fear. I was a Normal. sics which were once the private property of Miss Richmond. Once a month the Pests entertained the Normals or the Normals enter- Mother:
Margaret, tell us something about your buildings.
Our school, as you know, is sit- uated on a high hill in Towson, on a farm consisting of 82 acres. Our
If the girls had Domestic Science, [campus is very beautiful with the artistically arranged trees and
shrubbery that are beautiful at every season of the year. From every window in the building is revealed this picture painted by the brush of
I was reading in a book today and in it I found a most beautiful thought. "To you from failing hands we throw the torch. Be yours to hold it high." Do you think you are doing this, Margaret?
Margaret :
Yes, Grandmother, we are carry- ing the torch to hand down to those who come after us.
"Thus the old order changeth, Yielding place to new."
Frustrate Frostburg Frequently!
MORE TRUTH THAN FICTION
"So you're lost, little man? Why didn't you hang to your mother's skirt?"
Little Boy (sobbing)-"Well, I
-The Quill, Louisville, Ky
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Not when I went to school. You see, Margaret. I graduated the first year and the literary societies were not originated until the following year, 1867. Margaret:
That is interesting. Then they did exist when you went, Mother. Did
We did not have the smaller clubs in our societies, due to the small enrollment. I see though that the Normals still have the same colors, red and gold; but the Pest colors used to be pink and blue.
Margaret :
Yes. the Pest colors are now blue| Margaret: and gold.
It is this way, Margaret, it was
tained the Pests and everybody made
The Domestic Science Department Margaret:
of the school prepared the refresh- ments for these parties.
to Margaret :
what did the boys have?
They also were taught Domestic Science in an indirect way in chem- istry classes to show that chemistry lessons are practical. Prof. George nature. L. Smith, one of our most beloved Grandmother:
professors, had his classes make cakes and display them in the As- sembly Hall. To keep the boys from becoming too effeminate they were given lessons in military tactics. Margaret :
Since your classes were so small, Grandmother, how large was the faculty? Grandmother:
We had four teacherrs and Dr. Newell was Principal.
Margaret :
Do tell me about Dr. Newell. Grandmother:
( Dance)
We are having a Pest and Normal debate tomorrow, Mother. Would you and Grandmother care to go? Mother:
We would love to go. I well re- memher the competition between the two societies, which I understand is true today, is it not?
Margaret:
Yes, it is. Grandmother, did they have literary societies in your day? Grandmother:
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Grandmother, were your tests as hard as the tests we have today- You know we use such tests as Thorndike Tests.
Dr. Newell was born in Belfast, Ireland. He was educated in Trini- ty College. He came to Pittsburg to take an educational position and last dance that night was the Sir later came to Baltimore where he would, only I couldn't reach it." served in a similar capacity. He was
February, 1926
THE ORIOLE
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
( Rotary Club Address, Jan. 17, 1923 )
On the eve of the anniversary of,
Benjamin Franklin's birth I have been given ten minutes' time in which to outline the life cf this great American. All that can be ac- complished in this brief period is to refresh your minds with those events which are so familiar to every school boy of our land and further by bring- ing together a few of his trito quo- tations. revealing the character of the man.
Born in Boston on January 17th, a fish between two cats." Of a phy- 1706. he crowded into the S4 years sician. "God heals and the loctor of his life more of important events takes the fee."
than perhaps any American. Thrift is the word which characterizes his press he says: "I shall cheerfully con- sent to exchange my liberty of abus- ing for the privilege of not being abused myself." every action. We recall the story of his humble beginning, his objections to serving under his father as tallow candler and soap maker. the unhap- py apprenticeship in the printing Concerning the church we may quote: "If men are so wicked with office with his brother. his arriving in Philadelphia in a penniless state, the subsequent trip to England, where circumstances almost made As to education: "If a man emp- out it." him an instructor of swimming, and ties his purse into his head no one his return to this country to resume can take it from him."
his work as editor and publisher.
On finance: A few of his nuggets During his life time, Europe conced- are as follows: "If you would know ed liim to be America's greatest the value of money, go and try to Statesman and Diplomat, also her borrow some." "He that would have leading Scientist. So frequently is a short lent, let him borrow money Franklin quoted that a few of us to be repaid at Easter." "If a creditor recognize in our every day expres- hears your hammer at 5 A. M. or 9 sions that we are reiterating the P. M. he will extend your time six words coined by this famous Pholos- opher. As a literary man he is more widely quoted than any other individual. Here are a few of his most familiar sayings: months, but if he sees you at a billiard table or a tavern, when you should be at work he will call for his money tomorrow." "If you know how to spend less than you get you "Early to bed, early to rise makes have a philosopher's stone." When asked to express his views on the
a man healthy, wealthy and wise." "God helps those who help them- prevailing high rate of taxes he sur- seives."
"A place for everything, every- thing in its place."
"Never put off until tomorrow that which you can do today."
prised his hearers by stating that while government taxes were indeed high yet there were many others · which were much more grievous: "We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our
"Honesty is the best policy." "The morning hour has gold in its pride, and four times as much by our
mouth." folly." Adding that on these taxes "One today is worth two tomor- the commissioners could allow no rows."
"One should eat to live and not live to eat."
The high standard of the Code of Ethics which governed his life is ex- "Take care of the pence, and the emplified in the following paragraph pounds will take care of themselves." of a letter written to his intimate Less familiar though equally char- friend John Jay. The letter was writ- acteristic are the following: "It is hard for an empty bag to reer; for, though seventy-eight years
ten near the close of his stormy ca-'never speaks ill of anyone."
"Right you are! She never talks of age, he was at the time serving as of anyone but herself."-Pele Mele stand upright."
"Three may keep a secret if two United States Minister to France. of them are dead." "I have. as you observe, some "If you would have a faithful enemies in England, but they are my servant and one that you like, serve enemies as an American. I have also the Revolution, do you?"
two or three enemies in America who | yourself."
Diversified as was his training It are my enemies as a Minister, hut I Washington an' all them."
is not surprising that his writings thank God there are not In the whole "Perhaps you were a witness of the fall o fRome?" should cover practically the entire world any who are my enemies as a field of human endeavor. From the man, for by His grace, through a "Nossa, Ah din' exactly see it, but standpoint of present day husiness long life, I have heen able so to con- Ah recollect hearin' somethin' drop!" his views on certaln problems must duct myself that there does not exist
with considerable flonrish.
-Benjamin Franklin-Printer. IGNATIUS BJORLEE
Frustrate Frostburg Frequently!
SOME OF OUR EXCHANGES
The Green Stone, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
The Quill, Louisville, Ky. Washington Collegian. Chester-
Speaking of the freedom of the town. Md.
The Snapper, Millersville, Penn. Poly Press. Baltimore Md. The Whistle. Brunswick. Md. The Owl, Hurlock, Md.
The Maryland Bulletin. The Normal Trumpet, West Lib --
Th eCourant. Hyattsville, Md. The Chestertown Transcript.
February 4. 1926 My Dear Miss Kornblatt:
I am delighted to enclose the 250. words you asked for, to be published in the Oriole, and if you have the space in the headlines give whole school my sincere love. I couldn't get that into my article be- cause all my words got used up. And I certainly will criticise your paper, fearlessly and I hope helpfully; but that is an earnest task and I must give it a little thoughit. I started my own newspaper and ran It weekly for two years, when I was 11 years old. and I was the editor and printer for both the University of Southern California and the East Tennessee University of Chattanooga, when I was in school, so I know a little about that angle.
I think the article I am handing you is much better than anything else I could have written in the space, and hope it will at least give your readers a little laugh.
Sincerely, HENRY E. WARNER
Fracture Frostburg's Feelings!
HERSELF HER TOPIC
"She is really a nice girl: she
GOOD MEMORY
"So you remember way back to
"Yassa. De Revolution and Gi'nl
-West Point Pointer.
abatement.
be judged by conditions as they ex-la human being who can justly say, isted in his day. For instance, his Benjamin Franklin has wronged me. reference to commerce in the fol- This, my friend, is in old age a com- fortable reflection." lowing:
the matter of classification there is no doubt but that he would have written without the slightest hesitancy but
"There seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. First by war, this is robbery: Second by commerce, which is generally cheat- ing: Third by agriculture, which is the only honest way. Perhaps his allusion to a nation's commerce would also be rated by him as true of the trades people of his day.
Nor does he spare the professional men. Of lawyers he says: "A coun- tryman between two lawyers is like
religion, what would they be with-ferty. W. Va.
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THE ORIOLE
February, 1926
A RAINY DAY.
Rainy days are becoming popular! "How so?" you say. It is true that a rainy day sometimes spoils our plans; makes us carry umbrellas; takes the curl from our hair; wash- es the powder from our noses; ruins our clothes; makes us ride in warm street cars, when we would rather walk-in fact. heretofore, when old Sol hid from old Rain, we knew for sure that we "were in for" a dull day. However, the much discussed young folks of today, who fear nothing, and dare everything, find delight in a rainy day. Yes, they do, else why do they appear on the streets in great numbers with painted slickers and galoshes?
They actually wait for the first rainy day after receiving their new slickers. After all perhaps they like it no more than their ancestors, but are trying to brighten up the rest of the world with their "hright- er-than-the-sun"-colors.
If they continue to increase their efforts to cheer us up in "gloomy" weather. we shall all buy smoked glasses for use on rainy days .- M. Clishiam.
Y'S & WEAR 4'S OF SR. 15. 0
We wonder- Why Van Sant is called Kilpat- rick?
Why Babka is called Columbus? Why Derr gets so much mail?
Why Fulks is so studious?
Why Bennett is interested in wed- dings?
Where Cross gets his rosy cheeks Why Kelly is known as our Great American Educator?
Where Dorsey gets her curls? Where Sparks' diamond is?
Why Boulden is so petite?
Why Coggins and Bishop seem so interested in each other?
Why Williams eats so many buns? Why Winger is in the Glee Club? What Robertson would dowithout her sweater?
Why Lockard is a frequent visitor at the Infirmary ?
Why Riley goes to the Peabody so often?
Why Lloyd and Brightwell like to clance together?
Why Morris is such a "jester"?
Why Harkins
always drops a "blind" to the dances?
Why Friend dresses up so often here lately ?
Why Howard goes to "rec" every nite?
Why Durry wears a star on his sweat shirt?
Where Cullen buys her school-girl complexion ?
Why Custis goes to all the basket- ball games?
Why Senior 15 has so many feeds in Newell 224?
-. Bill & Jack.
QUEER NORTHERN FOLKS.
"While L was in Savannah some years ago,' writes T. M. B., "I stopped a colored man and inquired the time so as to regulate my watch. 'Does you mean de railroad or de Mediter- ranean time, sah?" the old fellow asked."
" 'The what? ? ' "
" 'De Mediterranean time, sah, which am de city time, de same as de sun.' " "' 'We call it meridian time up North.' "
" 'I reckon dat may be so, sah; de No'thern folks am a trifle quare in what dey call t'ings; dey have quare way, sah, dey shorely do.'" -Boston Transcript.
Fry Frostburg To Frazzle!
"How do you like your new hoss, dearies?" asked Mame of her friend Gertie, the stenog.
"Oh, so-so," was the reply. "But he seems to have a one-track mind." "How come?"
"He thinks ther's only one way to spell a word."-American Legion Weekly.
After the Game: And how are they going to get all the mud off their uniforms?
"What do you suppose they have a scrub team for?"-The Log.
STILL THE STYLE
It seems that bobbed hair is no longer only a topic of conversation, but it has also become a subject for poetry.
The following interests us:
Shingle bob, shingle bob,
Shingle all the way!
All the barber shops are full,
It's all the rage today.
Shingle bob, shingle hob,
Right up to the dome!
Ain't it grand. the more you cut, The less you have to comb." -The Purple Parrot.
JUST MATCHES
Teacher-"Willie, can you tell me how matches are made?"
Willie-"No Ma'am but I don't blame you for wanting to find out." Teacher-"Why Willie, what do yon mean?"
Willie-"Mother says you have been trying to make one for years." The Courant, Hyattsville, Md.
Father (over long distance) : "Hello. Jolin why didn't you make better grades?"
Walker: "Can't hear you, father." "I say, couldn't you make better grades ?"
"I can't hear you. father."
"I say, John do you need any money ?"
Yes sir, send me twenty dollars." -- The Snapper, Millersville Normal. Vagabond.
THE BUTTERFLY AND THE CATERPILLAR.
A lovely, golden butterfly one day alighted on the largest and most beautiful rose in the flower garden. At the same time a little ball of some- thing fuzzy was resting on one of the leaves of the same plant. The rose rentained silent to listen to this conversation :
"Why do you insist on coming here every day and sitting on the leaves of this beautiful rose? You know she doesn't want you near her!
Nothing but a crawling, creeping caterpillar, and you think you can decorate a flower as beautiful as this rose! Why don't you move on?"
"Indeed," said the indignant little caterpillar, stretching himself and lifting his head a trifle higher, "I don't deny that you are a beautiful creature. So you are-in fact, you are one of the most beautiful crea- tures I have seen lately! But what has beauty to do with one's import- ance in life? Just wait until this time next year. Then I, too, will be a soft, velvety creature like you, and you'll be. nothing but an old, ragged- winged butterfly scarcely able to move about.
"I'm not talking about next year," broke in the butterfly, frowning angrily. "Just look
at yourself now! Why, you can't even fly from flower to flower as I can; you have to creep slowly along the ground and it takes you just ages to get where you want to go. Watch how nicely I can fly." and the butterfly lifted his lovely wings, poised himself in the air and gracefully flitted away.
But just as he reached mid-air bang! something heavy came down over him! Hi wings would no long- er move; they could only flutter weakly, and then stopped altogether! "What has happened?" thought the poor butterfly; "liow will I ever get out of this?" But it was too late; he was already doomed to de- struction, for a net held in the hand of the Professor of Biology had caught him.
"I think I had rather be just a plain caterpillar," murmured the soft little ball of fur.
Moral-Pride goeth before a fall. -Elizabeth D. Hayes, Jr. 2.
INDEED
"What is more desired in an ac- cident than presence of mind?"
"Dunno."
"Absence of body."- The Courant, Hyattsville, Md.
Senior: "How do you like my room as a whole?"
Freshman: "As a hole it's fine, as room-not SO good."-Vassar
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THE ORIOLE
February, 1926
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB NEWS.
The last adventure of the Psycho- logy Club was a trip to the Shepard Prati Hospital. Imbued with a de- sire to explore that asylun. we started enthusiastically to walk that long stretch of beautiful road leading up to the institution. Arrived there, we found it to be a huge, brick build- ing. perched on the top of a hill, with a setting of sloping hills surround- ing it.
We were escorted to the lecture are possessed with cutting sarcasm and wit. They talk incessantly; the room. before which, however .. we explored several of the rooms, talk is natural, but it is too fluent. spotlessly clean. and the patients' lining room. equally immaculate. In the lecture room. we were given an excellent talk by Dr. Eleanor Saund- ers, probably the leading figure in that institution. The main substance of her talk was as follows:
Seventy-five per cent. of the per- sons in State hospitals are people with chronic complaints. These peo- ple are those who can no longer accommodate themselves to their outside environment. The purpose of the Shepard Pratt Hospital is pri- marily to try to lead the patients back to normal life through the ap- plication of psychological experimen- tation.
Dr. Saunders discussed the various types of patients housed in the asy- lum. She classified them as patients with functional diseases and those with organic complaints. All of these people have deviated from nor- mal life and are subject to fear re- Their personality makes for a cer- tain tendency of reaction-day dreaming. While we dream dreams and would be lost without them, yet actions. first, the fear of going to heights or depths, the fear of open- ing a door, the fear which causes trepidation and hesitation in crossing we come back when our work re- a street. There are some motive as- quires it; they. however, shift over | April.
sociations in such persons' minds which make them act so.
The complaint known as irritable weakness is manifested by the pa-that their minds are being read, and tient's constant exhaustion. We canthey attempt to read other people's
readily understand a person being healthfully fatigued, but to tire easily and to be in a perpetual state to queer ideas of dress and behavior. iFirst the dusk, a shadow creeping of exhaustion is the condition of such There is a marked deviation in their O'er the plain in silence sleeping. some ; Above the mountains blue with
people.
Another type are those who have the tendency to complaints are: those people have introspective makeups
in which their minds are entirely of illness, we find the organic dis- taken up with themselves, and their turbances which include those who thoughts are only subjective.
A deviation from normal is evident In the anxlety attacks. which are evidenced by a state of continuous anxiety. All of their waking mo- ments and sleeping moments taken up with fits of uneasiness.
Some patients are subject to par- tial reactions, ohsessive In character. At such times, the thoughts, usually of an unpleasant nature, recur con- greater chance to come back to nor- stantly in the mind. even against mal. The latter are plastic and can be helped to adjust themselves to the person's wishes.
Those people, who are a great de- outside environment, consequently.
they will give up an organic case in favor of a younger patient.
The problem. confronting the asy- thinking is normal in content and flum in regard to patients who finally context. but it shows itself in vari- ous peculiar reactions. Sometimes.
leave the asylum, was introduced. When a person comes to the hospital. his past illness is investigated and followed up. When he is able to re- turn to his original work, the insti- Its mani-Itution encourages his employer to take him back. They suggest some other occupation that the patient would like to de. and sometimes they must tell a patient that he cannot do a certain type of work.
She discussed the change of atti- tude of the public in their responsi- bility toward bringing in cases to asylums while they are new. Former- ly. there was a stigma attached to a case and it was kept a secret, the skeleton in the family closet.
new genetic type. He said that it was his work in the asylumi to ap- ply psychology to human behavior. giving us the ultimate motive of the place; the return of the patient to normal life. His last statement was to this effect. "Psychology should teach us to stop repressing ourselves and things around us.
We were then taken to the work rooms of the patients, where we ex- amined the weaving department and noted the really beautiful articles which they make from brass, hemp. wood. beads, etc. We were informed that the patients may buy the arti- cles they make, but for those which are not purchased, two sales are held yearly, in November and and in Altogether we had a trip rich
in value .- Yetta Brickman. Re- porter.
NIGHT
haze.
I. below. enchanted gaze:
Down, down, down does come this mist
Until the burdened earth it's kissed. And then the still bewitching night.
The moon, a lamp hung in the sky, The soft white clouds go drifting hy. Dr. Saunders discussed the type And if by chance they pause to stay of patient who could be helped to They obscure the "Milky Way;"
The gleaming stars are scattered wide
Like grains of sand washed by the tide.
Such glorious things the night does make
Which dawn does fade and morn does take. - F Meyer, Jr. 3.
viation from normal, have what is Iknown as a psychosis, which is a con- dition oï mental illness. Their
there is a state of prolonged elation. This elevation of mood continues in the presence of death or a situation equally grim and serious. festations are shown in increased ac- tivity of the patient. noisiness. de- structiveness. untidiness, and a sing- ular capacity for observation. They
Often patients fall into a stite of depression. They entertain ideas of self-destruction and settle down into slow activity. doing things b cause it is right to do it. but experiencing no pleasure in such tasks. This re- tardation of activity is marked by sparsity of speech, and lack of in-
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