Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 123

Author: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Publication date: 1922-1927
Publisher: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Number of Pages: 1024

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By having a term of student-teaching we get an idea of the curriculum of the elementary school. It has been at least six years since we were in the grades and inany, many changes have taken place in the schools during that time. Not omy nave the courses of study changed, but the methods are very much differ- ent than formerly. It is true that we have courses in methods here in the Normal School, but we are not sure they will function until we have seen them tried. Remember the adage, "Seeing is believing."

Student-teaching should make one open-minded. I venture to say that a person without any experience would try to force his ideas upon the children. We see so many boys and girls during the twelve weeks that we realize they have worthwhile ideas, as well as we, which we should take into consideration. We must remember that although we go into the schools to teach we continue to learn while we are teaching.

Student-teaching has many values of which we should be conscious. We gain experience on which to begin real teaching, we get a definite idea as to the elementary school curriculum, and we should be made open-minded by it.

M. GRACE LYONS, Senior '14.

Historic Spots in Baltimore County

1. Forney's Tavern at Reisterstown. It was a jolly tavern of olden days, not only serving travelers from Philadelphia but being a popular resort of gay folk. Betsy Patterson made merry here on one occasion.

2. Clynmalira Manor and My Lady's Manor were deeded to Charles Carroll in 1695 and 1705. There is a stone marking the western boundary on the farm of Mr. Curry near Corbett. David Stewart, Aquilla Anderson and William Slade were among the first settlers. Two of Stewart's daughters are buried on what is now Linden Hope Farm. owned by H. R. Hutchins, and their gravestones show the date of their death as 1789.

3. St. James' Church on My Lady's Manor. It was built in 1752. Here are buried the Slades, the Stewarts and the Andersons. During the Revolution the church was used as an improvised powder magazine for one year and an armed garrison was stationed here. An old school-St. James' Academy-occu- pied one corner of the churchyard and the bricks of which it was built are now in the belfry of the church. There are a number of graves of Revolutionary soldiers here.

4. Soldier's Delight Hundred. It was one of the earliest settled tracts of land and at the present day all that retains the name of Soldier's Delight is a tract of land near Owings Mills.

5. Fort Garrison, built in 1693, is still standing in the town of Garrison It is the oldest permanent fort in Maryland.

6. The Green Springs Home. built 1774, is near Chattolanee Station. Here are the original rooms, one containing niches for statuary. There is also an old daguerreotype of the first lady who came from England.

7. Old Sater's Church. Henry Sater, who was a devout Christian man, held prayer meetings in the wilderness of what is now Green Spring Valley. Here we find Old Sater's Church, built in 1742, in honor of him. He lies buried under the part of the church over which the pulpit stands. This was the first Baptist church in Maryland.

8. On the beautiful estate of Trentham, built 1746, near Garrison, is an old stone bathhouse, octagonal in shape, where the Craddocks bathed many years ago. Two mahogany bathtubs still are to be seen there. The house near it is also standing.

9. "The Elms" on the Reisterstown Road, owned and occupied now by the Misses Gray, was the former home of the son of Francis Scott Key and here the author of our national song spent a great deal of his time.

10. Montrose, about three miles north of Reisterstown, is the home of Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore, who married Jerome Bonaparte and whom Napoleon would not allow to enter France. Among other shrubbery is a yew tree planted by Jerome Bonaparte and said to have been brought by him from France.

11. The Confederate Soldiers' Home in Pikesville was the United States arsenal during the Civil War. The old powder magazine is to be seen and there is a relic room where are gathered many things belonging to the heroes who wore the gray.

EVELYN MINNICH, Senior '11.

Nina

By EVERETT MACGOWAN, Sp. Senior, 1926.

E found her at the top of an abandoned outhouse, one of a group that surrounded this old Russian mansion. Bare of any furniture, save an iron cot, this bleak, cold room had been Nina's refuge for months. It was now November, and wintry winds were blowing, bringing snow and a sense of desolation. Nina responded to our knock by a scarcely audible murmur, then shrank back into a corner as we entered. At our invitation to her to make her home with us, she stared at us pitifully, wonderingly, for a moment, then making a deep curtesy to my mother, she shyly smiled her gratitude and overwhelming relief.

Nina was without doubt the shyest, most silent little creature I have ever known. Sometimes her silences seemed to imply that to her most Americans had nothing to say, but insisted on saying it. She was as mysterious to us as we were to her. It was not until long afterward that we learned her pathetic story and were able to understand somewhat the harsh, bitter, arro- gant streak in her character.

Her story is a trite one. I have heard so many similar, so many much worse. Her great-grandfather, a political emigré from Italy in the 60's, fled to Russia and married into an old Moscow family. Nina's father rose to be a Brigadier-General with the Imperial Forces. His daughters were educated at the Marie Alexandrovna Institute for the Daughters of the Military at Petrograd. Here Nina was taught to be a lady. So thoroughly was she versed in the rudiments of this art that, in spite of everything she suffered, she has remained what she was meant to be-a lady.

Russian girls know nothing of the social freedom we enjoy, and yet the well-to-do Russian family of pre-war days was held together very loosely. The children were left to the careless, though usually tender devotion of tutors, nurses and servants. Their moral and spiritual training was often totally neglected. Their mental path was smoothed for them; their school tasks done for them if they desired it; they were treated as children until they graduated at eighteen or nineteen years. They always wore severely plain, dark uniforms to school and theatre ; little white aprons were seen only on "dress" occasions. A "party" dress without sleeves was unheard of ; such a treat was reserved until after marriage.

Nina told us that up to the day she left Petrograd, at the age of twenty- one, she had never crossed the street without holding the hand of her mother, governess or sister. The one art which was not neglected was the ability to speak foreign languages. In this Nina shone. Her command of French and English was remarkable and to hear her speak them was delightful.

In the summer of 1919, Nina and her sister Sonia, four years younger, were on the old family estate in the province of Saratof. Her mother was in Switzerland, her father at the front, absorbed in military duties. Igor, her younger brother, had just joined the White army. Ile never saw his parents again. When rumors began to sift through that the Red army was heading South, pillaging, killing, destroying. General D)- wrote to his children to remain on the estate with their faithful old nurse until their mother should arrive. Imagine their growing fear and terror as railway communications became daily less secure. Suddenly, an unforeseen calamity occurred. Their nurse died, leaving them surrounded by bewildered, ignorant peasantry, whose faith in their masters was being rapidly shaken. For the first time in her life. Nina was forced to think. Panic stricken, she and Sonia donned soldiers' clothes, cut off their long hair and, taking a few treasures, began the lung, lonely, hopeless trek across the Urals, away from the path of the Reds.

Of course, she expected to return in a few months at most ; everyone did. So began the journeyings of hundreds of thousands of frightened, helpless refugees, neither knowing nor caring what their destination might be. Some- times their train would be switched for weeks on to a siding, and the pas- sengers from four cars ·be herded like cattle into one. Sometimes they were parcelled off and allotted a barrack. a baggage car or stable in which they waited, uncomplaining, for the news of deliverance that never came. It was common to see the young folks go on ahead, while their brave parents will- ingly returned to ultimate starvation or death.

Thus Nina reached Ekaterinburg, where another tragedy occurred. Sonia became lost and could not be found when the opportunity for release came. Nina was taken under the protection of some charitable French officers and, more desolate than ever, continued eastward towards an unknown destination. Months later she found herself in Omsk, where she was adopted by the American Red Cross. In Nina's own words, "the Americans have saved my life for over three years. I will always be indebted to them, but they are a strange people. They have no souls. I cannot and do not like them, although 1 have tried to." In Omsk she contracted severe rheumatism, suffering a great deal. Two and a half years later she arrived in Vladivostok, one of Mother Allen's band of orphans. Should we condemn her for refusing to be further transported to Petrograd with the 800 Russian children who were returned to their grateful parents? Half-way around the world they went, at the expense of the American Red Cross. Nina's father and mother both died mourning the loss of their dear ones.

Happily, Nina found her brother at this last outpost of civilization. Nina is cruel now and bitter at life. And her laughter is harsh and taunting as she recalls the mocking answer she gave to a shy, ardent young English sub- altern on his way back to India to rejoin his regiment.

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The Delta Beta Delta Sorority was the first permanent organization of its kind in the Normal School. It originated in Washington College in 1876 and was brought over to the old Normal School in. the city in 1910 and later out to Towson, where it has been in existence ever since.

The chief aims of the Sorority are to promote the spirit of comradeship among the students and to serve as an inspiration to them both in their work and play.

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This picture will introduce you to the Nu Sigs. The Nu Sigs are just a jolly bunch, as their picture proves. Our Sorority binds us together in friendship that means work and love for dear old Normal and our chosen profession.

Do Dreams Come True?

HEN Towson was known as Towson Towne, and when there was 110 trolley line from Baltimore to Towson Towne, and when the Maryland State Normal School was not conceived of, the grounds that now are covered with spacious buildings were then nothing but lands that were tilled by old Mr. Jacobson. I said that the Maryland State Normal School had not been conceived of, but I may say that old Mr. Jacobson did have a vision of his hill being capped with a great building. He could see girls in fluffy hoop skirts strolling upon his property. He always wanted his dream to come true. Yet he never lived to realize his vision.

In 1909 the Maryland State Normal School, at Lafayette Square, was entirely too small to accommodate the students who wished to be enrolled there. The matter was taken up by the State Board of Education. After the pre- liminaries of the affair were settled the site that was chosen for the new school would have gladdened old Mr. Jacobson's heart, had he known it, for it was none other than his hill.

Could Mr. Jacobson look down now and see his beloved hill, he would see a very different view from that of which he had dreamed.

The Maryland State Normal School is made up of five buildings: the Administration Building. Newell and Richmond Halls, the Power House, and, last but not least, Miss Tall's home.

At York Road there is a curved, stone driveway, dotted here and there along the side with lights and bits of shrubbery, that leads up the hill and past the Administration Building. We look at this building and see that it is of Middle English architecture and constructed of dull red brick. Here are located the administrative offices, recitation rooms and laboratories, the auditorium, the library and reading rooms, the practice school, the home economics department, the cafeteria for day students and the school store.

We leave the Administration Building and walk down the hill. We next come to Richmond Hall. a new dormitory that was added in 1924. There are four floors in the main part of Richmond Hall and six in what is known as the tower. This hall is joined to Newell Hall by an arch.

On down the lighted driveway we stroll and reach Newell Hall. On each end of this dormitory there is a wing and in each corner of the wing there is a door. In the center of the building is the main entrance. Directly in front of Newell Hall there is a patch of green, filled with ornamental trees and shrubbery. Among these are benches where the students sit, either to meditate or to enjoy the beautiful outdoors.

Down by Newell Hall we go. around the corner. Just back of the dormitory is the Power House. Here is where we get our heat, light and water. The gymnasium and laundry are in this building.

We turn and look upon Miss Tall's home, a dwelling that is just a little old-fashioned looking with its white paint and green shutters. It reminds one of an old Southern plantation home with its wide veranda. The cindered drive- way with its border of stately trees makes us think that any moment a lovely girl in hoop skirts may appear.

Yes, old Mr. Jacobson would be very proud of his hill could he see it now. MYRTLE CULLEN, Senior '15.

Reminiscence of Normal Days

HE was just a little lady with silvery hair and a sweet face, a face that had been wreathed in smiles very often.

Today, as the first buds of spring were peeping through and the grass had become like a great green carpet over her lawn, she sat by her window watching the robins as they hopped about and dreaming of another spring so long ago.

That spring, how sweet and all too brief it had been! She remembered her little room in Richmond Hall with its dainty draperies and soft lights. How, on Friday evenings, when work was done. the girls would congregate with their "ukes" and sing the popular songs of the day. And the feasts they used to have. such delicious things they used to eat-when lights were "out."

She saw the beautiful campus stretching away, touched with flowers of white and gold, the school colors, too; strange she hadn't thought of that before. And the great trees that protected them so kindly on the warm June days-when work was forgotten.

She saw the big building on the hill, where all her knowledge of lesson plans, child's interests, etc., was obtained and, thinking thus, she almost heard the old clock strike nine and saw the girls racing from the "dorms."

Yes, they were the happy days! Days of sunshine and shadow, but as she leaned drowsily back in her chair I caught her quoting the words of our beloved Longfellow :

"Life is checkered, shade and sunshine."

JANE POWELL, Senior '6.

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PUBLICITY.

"If publicity made a millionaire out of chewing gum, what a prestige might be built for education if we could but show our people that 'the flavor lasts',"

TOWER LIGHT

Vol. 6 -- No. 1

OCTOBER, 1926

Published Monthly by Students of Maryland State Normal School, Tuwson, Md.

AN APPRECIATION OF NORMAL'S BEAUTY.

Anna R. Eigner, Sr. 8.

In many books which you have read there are passages devoted to the description of beautiful build- ings. There is an interesting one which I recall from my Junior course in Geography; a description of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice. One of the students had given a report on Italy in which she mentioned the' noted Italian buildings, numbered among which was this famous ca- thedral. It was described as having peaceful surroundings of well-cut lawns and gravel walks, beautiful arches over the entrances, images adorning the walls and great spires towering over all. There have been ! thousands of people who have passed within sight of this cathedral dur- ing the centuries of its existence. There are idlers lounging about, tradesmen putting their wares on its very steps, and beggars basking in the sunlight. Not one of them lifts his eyes to the beautiful cathedral; not one face is brightened by it. Many others do feel the influence of its stateliness and beanty.

Our attitude toward Normal re- sembles that of these Italians. We all profess to admire beautiful buildings, yet often, when they are familiar to ns, we take them for granted and, like the Venetians, forget to appre- ciate them. Our own Normal School at Towson is, in many respects, one of the best and most attractive of all Maryland's school buildings. Sit- uated on historic York Road, top- ping a grassy slope, interspersed with gravel walks, which are bor- dered with shrubbery, stand the Ad- ministration and Dormitory Build- ings. To me they embody the ideals of the school. Therefore, it is fitting that we appreciate their beauty, gaze at them often and let the peaceful- ness, the dignity and the beauty en- ter into our daily lives.

OUR BEAUTIFUL RICHMOND HALL.

FRIENDLINESS.

may or may not be the spirit of our school. I hope it is. Do the Seniors feel friendly to the Juniors? Do the Juniors sense the friendly atmos- phere the minute they cross our threshold ?

Two years ago our first grade modeled a dairy after they had visit- ed one in the Green Spring Valley. They called their dairy, "The Friend- ly Dairy." Thus, they added the word "friendly" to their vocabulary, and for sometime the new word gave the character to their environment. They spoke of their parents as "Our friendly parents,"

and of their teachers as '.Our friendly teachers," and of their classmates as "Our friendly classmates." They beamed with delight at the use of the word.

In one of the hotels in Europe where ; pianist, in a concert on November

I stopped this past summer. there hung on the wall a greeting. Trans- lated it means this:

"If you are friendly to this house, speak about it tc

dent how to meet the difficulties in a situation such as we have here at

We are at the beginning of a year. (Normal. One of the old hymns has Friendliness is a charm word. It it: "Throw out the Life Line." That

is what friendliness in a school like this can mean. Our friendly faculty! Our friendly classmates! The friend- ly Seniors! The friendly Juniors! They are all potent in the life of a real school.

LIDA LEE TALL.

GIRLS' GLEE CLUB ATTRACTIONS

The Girl's Glee Club sponsors a number of musical activities through- out the year. .

In addition to the Knabe Ampico concert which was given recently, the Glee Club will present Mr. Sigurd Nilssen, basso, in a concert on Wed- nesday evening, November 3rd; and Mr. Manrice Dumesnil, the French

eleventh.

Mr. Dumesnil, who will give a Chopin Debussy program, is bring- Ing Chopin's piano to the Normal School. This is said to he the piano upon which Chopin composed some of his preludes and his funeral march. Mr. Dumesnil will play the Chopin numbers on Chopin's piano. The piano is loaned by a French Art Society for Mr. Dumesnil's tour, and is insured for fifty thusand dollars

Memories of school days are among our most cherished possessions, and these memories always centre about others; a place. When we leave dear old If you are not friendly, tell it to us." Normal, and go out into the world scattering in all directions, let us Each member of the student body can become a bumper or a shock ab- have had such a great love for our Alma Mater that our minds and af- sorber to ease the burden of some fections will return to her in spirit, other student. Make the way easy; even though we ourselves do not. I break the shocks; show a new stu -- Margaret Rohrer, Sr. 12.

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TOWER LIGHT

October, 1926

OUR ALUMNI CONTRIBUTE.

Doubs, Md.,

Dear Miss Munn :-

I felt as if I had lost an old friend when I opened my "Oriole" and found it in its new dress and boast- ing a new name. After I had read it, I decided it must still be the "Oriole" at heart.

I started last month to write and tell you how much good that little paper does me. Each month, when it comes, I feel as though I have had a trip back to dear old M. S. N. S. Somehow we seem so far away, ex- cept for the link that the "Oriole" makes.

May the "Tower Light" burn brightly and always keep alive the song of the "Oriole."

Sincerely,

E. Katherine Gibson.

TEACHERS.

Thank God for teachers! Teachers of children,

Wee children

With souls, and eager eyes and true ANOTHER ONE OF '23 MARRIED. hearts;

Rich children, poor ones; American children or foreign born-

Yet children all, bearing the gifts of the Magi.

Here's Gold-faith and trust in this- "My Teacher."

There's Frankincense - love, and glowing eyes

That prove it, if one is worthy a child heart which reckons all, nor is deceived.

This-all this,

If one is a teacher-

And believes;

And I would believe-aye fervently, In children, in teachers, in teaching. What a world this would be with- Teaching, a science, a task, with out children! A dismal, uninterest- ing world indeed. Children are

facts to teach.

Teaching-a privilege, a

gift, with children to learn!

With Angelo Patri I look ahead

a thousand years, and I see not ships, help children remain just children!

nor soldiers, neither cities nor wealth, but children-laughing, shouting children, and I put my hand in theirs, and smiling, dream of sun- shine, and endless happy days.

For I am a teacher!

Betty Bowman, '22.

THE LISTENING POST.

WHAT OF OUR ALUMNI?

The wedding of Miss Madeline Willson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Carroll Willson, of Rock Hall, Maryland, and Mr. Joseph H. Gray, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, took place on Saturday, September the eigh- teenth at St. Paul's Protestant Epis- copal Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John W. White in the presence of a few rela- tives and close friends.

The bride graduated from the

Maryland State Normal School at Towson and taught school in Annapo- lis during the past four years.

Mr. Gray is a graduate of Cornell University and is in business in New York City. After a motor trip through New York State and New England Mr. and Mrs. Gray will make their home in Elizabeth, New Jer- sey. Miss Willson was one of the Class of '23 .- Chestertown cript.

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Alexander Graham announce the marriage of their daughter Eugenia Hollowell, to Mr. Thomas Newsom Potts, Jr., on Tuesday, the fifth of October, nine- teen hundred and twenty-six, at Sal- isbury, Maryland.

WHY I WANT TO TEACH.

I want to teach because I can give most. and serve best in this capacity. Teaching is a revelation; always something new: I

want to teach hecause I find children inspiring, or- iginal, ingenious; they educate me.

blessed amazing, delightful, carefree crea- tures. Best of all. they are sincere. A child tells the truth because he has not learned to lie. May God always

Rose L. Kornblatt. Class of '26.

PRACTICAL VALUE OF PRACTICE TEACHING.

The two-years' course at the Mary- land State Normal School is divided into six terms. One term of the

WHAT IS YOUR FIFTH TALENT? Senior year is spent in the actual teaching of children in neighboring

Perhaps your fifth and unknown schools

talent is writing. Have you ever i thought of it in that light? Why course which students consider the not use just a part of one of your tal- hardest. but is the one in which the ents-"Time"-and write for your greatest help for facing the real magazine-The Tower Light? Col- situations is acquired. Such an opportunity affords a.

leagues, if you have not discovered your fifth talent, experiment. Who complete change hecause the chief knows but what you may have a hid- subject is girls and boys rather than den talent for writing !- Grace Whit- hooks, a piece of work difficult yet. son. Sr. 8.

patience, resourcefulness, tact and persistence.

The stored-up subject matter and the plans and methods accumulated during your Junior year are of no value unless they can be used in stimulating and satisfying the intel- lectual curiosities of the children un- der your charge. One day a boy

why France asked helped the Thirteen American Colonies during the Revolutionary War Having been used to answering such questions while in class, a student teacher is anxious to answer it, but quickly realizes that she has learned that knowledge searched for is retained longer than that poured in, so she must tell him only where he can find the information he desires.

It is difficult to describe the feel- ings of one who has always looked at a class from the pupils' or the students' angle, and who now for the first time stands facing the class. With all self-confidence gone, with

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 123

Author: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.) Publication date: 1922-1927 Publisher: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.) Number of Pages: 1024

Author: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Publication date: 1922-1927
Publisher: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Number of Pages: 1024