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A "ROMANTIC SITUATION" AT THE SCHOOL DANCE. By Pearl Mohacy.
sible epidemics may be avoided. from the physical from the physical examinations on ! the Junior Class: Of 306 Juniors, 223, or 70 per cent. are essentially us always, or at least most always. ! normal, and 78 students, or 25 per (That isn't too egotistical, is it?)
cent. have defects which can very easily be remedied. Four have been recommended to have their tonsils removed; these girls have enlarged, diseased tonsils and suffer from fre- quent colds or occasional attacks of tonsilitis.
There are 68 girls who have de -! the various Baltimore clinics.
cayed teeth. Some of these have al- ready come to the infirmary, com- plaining of toothache. Others are
more or less unconscious of their bad teeth
dental care without practicing it
examinations of themselves.
Forty-one Juniors are suffering from eye-strain, and have been re- commended to have their eyes exam- ined by a
good oculist. No one should let expense interfere with any of these corrective measures, for, in the first place, the benefits derived from proper treatment are worth far more than the expense involved, and secondly, the girls can have these de- fects corrected at nominal rates in
Last year 70 per cent. of the stu- dents responded to these recom- mendations. and 30 per cent. did not. Is there any reason why there should not be 100 per cent. corrections this year? The students will be checked
It does seem that girls who have intelligence enough to be in Normal up frequently, to see how they are School, and incentive enough to take responding. It is possible that these up the career of teaching, should be correctives will be required before sensible enough to care for their a girl can graduate from this school. teeth. A great many diseases are This year an attempt will be made to do more than has been done in attributed to "local infections" and teeth are favorite seats for such in -¡ past years for those girls who are greatly over or underweight. It is hoped that the girls will co-operate in a plan for special diet tables in the dining room.
More frequent baths (i. e. daily
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baths). nse of deodorants, and mod- eration in the nse of cosmetics were stressed. The common occurrence of onychophagy (pronounced o-nik-of'? a-je: the morbid habit of biting the nails), was deplored.
Why not have a class 100 per cent. perfect by the end of the year or sooner?
H. W. Reitsma, M. D.
JUNIOR MOTHERS' WEEK-END.
"Isn't it wonderful? I wish I were a Junior. Miss Sperry, why didn't yon do it last year?" Thus spake many of the Seniors over the week-end of Friday, November the fifthi, for the new dining room and foyer accommodations and the gen- erosity of the Seniors in sharing their
rooms enabled us to make real for the first time the visit of the Junior mothers to the Normal School. Just think of it! Eighty county mothers, some of whom were former Maryland State Normal School grad-
uates, were with their daughters over Friday and Saturday and Sun- day and ate and slept and played with them. Twenty city mothers joined them for dinner Friday and the con- ference on Saturday.
The festivities opened with a din- her for mothers and daughters and faculty in the Newell Hall main din- ing room. There was a welcome sign over the door, candles and chrys- anthemums on the tables and the orchestra played in the balcony. Din- ner was followed by an informal meeting of mothers and tenchers, and a sing song such as we have every Wednesday night in the foyer.
"The gods were good throughout," and the sun shone brightly on Satur- day morning when the girls tucked their mothers in for a drive into Bal- timore and around Loch Raven.
At 2:00 P. M. the mothers met for a conference with the advisers and Miss Tall. The daughters joined
them for tea.
The musical selections
rendered hy Miss Aist and Miss Holmes added much to the occasion, as did Miss McEachern's untiring contributions throughout the week- end.
On Saturday evening, under Miss Cobb's direction, the mothers were entertained in the Assembly Hall by Junior talent, the Boys' Glee Club, a Dutch dance, a movie and charades.
Sunday was a quiet day, with op- portunity for church in the morning, the mothers leaving soon after din- ner.
Ruth Sperry. Dormitory Director.
STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT THE MARYLAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, TOWSON, 1926-27.
Juniors
Seniors
County :
Women
Men
Women
Men
Allegany .
6
0
7
0
Anne Arundel
7
0
7
1
Baltimore
30
7
35
2
Calvert
3
0
4
0
Caroline
7
1
14
0
Carroll
14
4
18
1
Cecil .
9
0
7
0
Charles
8
1
5
1
Dorchester
8
0
5
0
Frederick
25
4
23
1
Garrett
0
0
2
2
Harford
12
0
12
2
Howard
9
0
2
Kent.
5
0
5
Montgomery
8
0
20
Prince George
8
0
9
Queen Anne
7
0
11
0
St. Mary
0
0
3
0
Somerset
1
0
4
0
Talbot
7
1
7
0
Washington
15
1
18
2
Wicomico
2
0
8
0
Worcester
6
0
7
0
197
19
232
13
Other States
7
0
6
1
City
100
12
154
9
Total
304
31
392
23
Total Students Enrolled
. 750
Total Juniors
335
Total Seniors
415
Total Men
54
Total Women
696
Total City
279
Total County
471
KNOW MISS HALL.
When asked to interview Miss Hall for the "Tower Light" I felt a keen sense of pleasure, and lost no time in making a "date." Miss Hall and I were already acquainted in connection with the Normal Literary Society. of which she is the loyal adviser. and consequently I lacked the nsual feeling of trepidation which is said to accompany interviewers
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Miss Hall's home is in Richmond, Virginia, and so she is, geographi- callv. our near neighbor. She first
graduated from Washington Normal School, in Washington, D. C. Later she received her B. S. and A. M. de- grees from Teachers' College, Colnm- hia University. Miss Hall might be likened to a "teacher traveling sales- man," for she has samples of teach- ing from the first on np through graduate work. Quite a record for one person, I should say-
In reply to the question as to how
"I heard that this was a wonderful, progressive place. Here real prob- lems of education were being dis- cussed. Here was a live faculty. I . come and find it all true In addi- tion to the faculty, there is a most charming group of students, wide awake and alert in class-room work, of charming personality, and delight- ful as friends."
As I think of Miss Hall, this thought unconsciously comes to my mind: "To know her is to love her!" Will yon not know and love her, as those of us who know her, do ?- Hazel Gambrill. Sr. 9.
MISS COOK VISITS M. S. N. S.
The faculty and students of M. S. N. S. extended a hearty welcome to one of our best beloved of last year's faculty, who spent a few days with us the first week in November-Miss Marion I. Cook.
It was good to have Miss Cook she happened to become a member of with us again-if only for a short our faculty, I feel that to prevent au time-and we wish her much suc- injustice' I must quote Miss Hall's cess during her year of study in New words verbatim:
York.
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204
19
238
14
2
0
1
0
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A LITTLE SISTER.
(Miss Eckford Interviewed).
Doesn't she resemble Miss Eck- ford. I bet she's Miss Eckford's sister! Yes! Miss Eugenia is our own Miss Eckford's little sister. what a charming sister she is! I came in upon Miss Eckford while she was having her lunch. "Big Sis" was there too. Thanks to "Big Sis," "Kenneth S. Cunningham, a mem ber of the group, says: gained much that was of the greatest value to me, many suggestion which I may some day be able to translate into I found out that Miss Eugenia was a sweet, darling, little girl, who grew up into a charming young lady. Miss Eckford hails from Mississippi a place which it is quite apparent, practice; but that which I shall most she's crazy about. carefully carry back with me to my
Finally Miss Eugenia said: "Ser- own country is a recollection of the a thick wedge of cake. iously now, what do you want me to general atmosphere of the school tell you?"
I told her to tell me anything she wished, especially something pertain- ing to her own school career Miss Eckford got her A. B. at the Missis- sippi State College. She proudly told me that the college was the first woman's college in the United States. After graduation Miss Eck- ford did the inevitable-she decided to go to Columbia and then to teach. She received her Master's Degree in Art on
June 9, 1924. On the eleventh of June, Miss Eckford was teaching in North Carolina College. To use her own words: "I started teaching a class of women who were old enough to be my mother, and I tried to make them think that I had been teaching all my life. I surely was dignified."
She went on to say that her first year at college, teaching, she lost a good bit of her stiff dignity and be- came natural again. Yes, Miss Eck- ford is very, very natural and full of life. She told me about the way the Seniors at the college made her feel. She said that it didn't take her long to realize that it was useless to stand on her dignity with Seniors Miss Eckford happened to be just two or three years older than those college students. She taught them for two years, summer and winter.
I asked her why she had come East. The immediate answer was: "Because of Mary."
Now that's a real sisterly love, isn't it? Miss Eckford said that she was becoming better acquainted with us and liked it here very much. She likes teaching "just heaps."
After talking to Miss Eckford I There is a whisper, a rush, and a can readily see why "Big Sis" said thud-the door swings open with a that "Little Sis" grew up to be a charming young lady. splintering crash and a whirlwind of children dance out. Down the steps -Sadye Hendler, Sr. IX. they come, one at a time, two at a time, three at a time, whirling, turn- INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE PEOPLE WRITE TO US. ing and twirling. Lunch boxes clat, ter, books fall rippling and finttering to the ground, pencil boxes spill Dr. Del Manzo, director of the In- hordes of clattering pencils that go ternational Institute, some of whose bounding along the concrete. There members visited us recently, in a is a scurry to gather them up. The letter to Miss Tall, expressed himself hunt follows through a forest of as follows: moving chubby legs, and there is
"The students were delighted with your institution, and you should know that a number of women repre- senting countries where women do not have the opportunity to rise as they do in the United States, stated My, that they were more than encouraged and inspired by finding so able a principal at the head of Towson in the person of a woman-yourself.
and the unqualified willingness of everyone to assist me in every way.' "
NILSSEN CONCERT A GENUINE TREAT.
Mr. Nilssen's concert on the even- ing of the 3rd was the second one that he has given at the Maryland State Normal School. He was greeted on this occasion by a large and appreciative 'audience who warmly applauded his varied pro- gram.
Mr. Nilssen possesses a bass voice of pleasing quality which he nses well throughout a wide range. His program included old English songs, classics, Norwegian and Russian songs, Negro spirituals and a group of present-day concert favorites in English. The Norwegian group was delightful, singing them as he did with a genuine appreciation of their simplicity. The majority of the audience seemed to derive most pleasure from the Negro spirituals, applanding long and loudly, although some would no doubt feel that the Russian songs were more satisfying.
Miss McEachern was at the piano, playing the often difficult accompani- ments with a fine appreciation of their value in the musical result to be achieved.
E. P.
IN WHICH A TTRAVELER, LATE ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, PAUSES TO DRINK AT THE SCHOOL PUMP.
bumping, pushing and tumbling. Little girls scream, boys stamp and shout. The big girls hold more se- curely the books in their arms.
A little chap in a brown sweater struggles to throw the strap of his bag about his neck and shoulders. He is having a hard time of it, for his hands bulge and bristle with pencils and marbles. A tiny girl pauses, and throwing her hair back with a toss of her head, begins to gather it in long braids. A few paces safely away from the jostling and shoving a wee tot is prying the lid from his dinner pail. It falls tinkling to the ground, but he saved from the rnins A moment more and his face is lost, sunk deep in the cake. Little sister holds fast to big sister's skirt and pulls her cap down close over her eyes Big sis- ter makes a face at one of the big boys who hrushes by. He sticks his hands in his pockets and slouches whistling down the road.
A final crash and clatter and the eddy, moving on, loses itself-home- ward bound.
CHAS. R. RENN, Class of '24.
PSYCHOLOGY CHANGES.
The members of the Psychology Committee believe it to be best for the students to have all the courses in a this subject as preparation for teaching, therefore the following re- organization has been effected and will be tried out
this year. No course will be given in the Senior vear. Instead, there are three terms in the Junior year-two hours weekly The terms are designated -Psychology I, Il and III. Psy- chology I, which is given the first term of the Junior year, emphasizes a personal psychology-a project in the development of one's own mind- which will function directly in the student's life and character. The second term's work deals with the psychology of the learning process. This is mainly a laboratory course, and simple experiments are worked out by the students in order to un- derstand the specific task of teaching and of guiding the development of the mental life of growing children.
Psychology III is concerned with the Psychology of childhood. This term's work aims to describe the normal tendencies of children of school age, and to account for the typical behavior of childhood, fol- lowing this up with practical sug- gestions for training. There will be opportunities for individual observa- tion of children in the Campus School, Montebello and in some cases the homes of students where there are young children. These cases will be brought to the class for discussion
N. Birdsong, Chairman Psychology Committee.
November, 1926.
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TOWER LICHT
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BY THE STUDENTS OF THE MARY- LAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
Student Editors
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ADELE FLOOK
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Advertising Managers
Price :- One Dollar Fifty Cents For
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Ten Copies.
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Single Issues Fifteen Cents,
NOVEMBER, 1926
Editorialo®
OUR PAPER.
Sybil Lavin, Sr. Special.
Students, students, you talk about your high school papers; let's talk about our Normal School paper now. Some say they do not like our paper. They are the ones who have talked behind our backs; but even so, such news comes to the surface, and here is what we have heard:
First, the news: Įt
isn't what you want. By the way, do you ac- tually know what you want? Do you want the latest creations from Paris? Do you want the type of news the "West Virginia Moonshine" offers? Would you like to have Mr. Garland, the Post reporter, write us And by the way, students, a teach- er must make use of her reasoning powers, so you might as well begin here, and tell me the answer to the following problem: If, in a- high school. there are twenty-five hundred students. and two thousand are sub- scribers to the paper, why should the a few snappy stories? Sad to state, students. people of the above type are paid highly for their work, and the Tower Light does not aid toward fill- ing in the lines on the checks either. And so, if you want what you want, you surely should know what it is. Could you not take us into your con-| paper not be the same price in a Nor- fidence? Won't you take your pen in hand. and let us have your contri- hundred fifty students and three hun- hution ?
Next, the cover: The argument for this reminds me of the conversa- tion I once over-heard. Two men were discussing their ideas of ideal dwelling places. The younger man told the older, that, if once he could live within range of beautiful moun- tains. where, all day long, he could sit and gaze at God's wonderful work he would never
ask for another thing. Before he had finished his and so, if you want the Year Book,
very beautiful description, his fellow man answered: "Yes, buddy, scenery to the Tower Light.
is all right. but you can't make a liv- ing off of that."
Won't you let us hear from you soon? If you have not subscribed, So. after all, students-does the the year is yet young.
cover count so very much? ] must
REMEMBER, IF YOU CAN'T BE
ALL ABOARD, JUNIORS!
Each new student of the Maryland State Normal School naturally passes through two contrasting periods of mental attitude-that of a spectator and that of a participant The first attitude, that of a spectator, extends over a comparatively short space of time. In this role of onlooker, the student observes keenly and perhaps severely, all the while carefully cata- loging his decisions. He is sure to make decisions concerning the ma- terial or concrete part of his school life that affect his daily pleasures. Ultimately he decides whether or not his instructors, his courses, his schoolmates, and his equipment are as he would like them to be. And all the while throughout his search- ings, the student consciously or un- consciously looks for another less concrete but equally important con- stituent of his new Alma Mater. He searches for School Spirit.
Is his search a difficult one? Must he strive hard to find evidence of School Spirit? Not
at Normal. Since the first days of school he must have been aware of the vital current which underlies the support given all the activities-clubs, athletics, pro- ductions-and which fairly carries him along with its zest. Surely each new student will grant that this is true, because the Seniors make it so.
And now the time has certainly come when all Juniors must put aside that mental attitude of a spec- tator and assume the new attitude- that of the participant. In the role
of the participant we must realize that next year there will be new stu- dents who, just as we, will search for. that intangible thing called School Spirit; we must realize that if thev are to find it, we must sustain it now. Is not this sustenance a chal- lenge to the present Junior Class. Helen Nicols, Junior IV.
ONE OF OURS.
Elizabeth McCann, a graduate of 1924, who is working at Madras, South India, to educate Indian boys and girls, has announced her engage- ment to Walter Mueller, of Chicago, World Service Secretary from India.
EXCHANGES.
It is worth noting the great lati- tude over which The Tower Light shines Our exchange list has grown since last year, and we now mail a Tower Light monthly to schools of many types throughout the United States.
A green but ambitious young man entered a store in Annapolis and in- quired of the proprietor, "Can you
admit that a heavier cover, heauti- A BOOSTER, DON'T BE A KNOCK- direct me to the place where Rich- fully illustrated, means quite a bit ER. ard Carvel made his home?"
to me, when sending it off to a col- lege chum-but after all, money doesn't grow on trees, for if this were true, instead of accepting your money for the Tower Light, you could prob- ably donate some to the "Little Egyptian Snow Diggers," and still De receiving our paper. And, if you will look into the matter, and make our next issue a one hundred per cent school paper, that is, that all sections subscribe one hundred per cent., we will do our best to make ends meet.
And last, but assuredly not least- the price. Some have the same old come-back-their high school paper. Won't you please bear in mind that your high school days are over, and that you are now attending a profes- sional school, where everything must he in accordance with the teaching profession ?
mal School. where there are seven dred subscribers? Please bring your answer before the Tower Light board, and I grant you, you will be well rewarded.
Just as a conclusion, I might let von in on a secret. If you refuse to buy the Tower Light, do you think it advisable for us to try to "make" you subscrihe to the Year Book? The secret is, that we do not intend making you, as you are past that age, you better show us, by subscribing
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November, 1926.
MEMORIES OF THE CAMPUS TREES
By an Alumnus-Charles E. Renn, N. Y. C., Columbia University. It is traditional that all good alumni boast of the prowesses of their former schools or colleges. Any sincerity-1 feel that there is usually a great deal-must spring from some seed that has dropped into the little patch of more or less fertile ground that we choose to call Memory.
In an astonishingly short time af- ter graduation, even before-the countless thousands of tiny impres- sions-"things that one just never could forget," have lost their defini- tion and have melted down into little rounded prominences in a more or less rosy matrix. I hope that it will not be distracting to suggest that these conglomerated memories strongly resemble vegetable soup. In it one sees here a drowned bean, a floating shred of spinach, or there a waterlogged carrot-all vague re- minders of historic repasts. The figure renders itself useful in that the broth is usually of such trans- lucence that only by stirring do we really become acquainted with our meal.
But as I was saying, having given vent to my feelings regarding some of my past Tuesday dinners, one finds the things stowed away upstairs get- ting rather faded and dusty after a little time. The other day rummaging abont I pulled out from beneath a whole pile of dances, friendships, and batreds, that had been stored in the cranial attic, a memory that seems never to have attracted my at- tention before-a memory of Normal School's trees.
I never knew that there were so many trees on the Towson campus till a group of us were assigned to make maps of the local flora. It seems to me that I had little difficulty in distinguishing between the firs and the maples, that I could recog- nize the apple trees in the Autumn, that locusts were qualified by their thorns, and that the trees that drooped like veiled mourners on the back campus were weeping willows. My map was not exactly pronounced authoritative.
Those same willows many times formed the background for individ- ual camera portraits of the men who, at that time, slept-at intervals, in the barrack. The girls had a way of posing in their white dresses be- fore the dark evergreens upon the front campus, subjects for the kodaks in the hands of their boy friends from back home, St. Johns, U. of M. or other points where boys were more plentiful. 1 might digress so far as to say that on these days we chaps were usually relegated to the banks along York Road, where we would
gather under a tree and watch the stream of cars that clattered by.
When Spring came she gathered armfuls of her most lovely blossoms and dumped them, a kaledioscope of verdure, down upon the campus about Miss Tall's
house. When subtle Winter crept upon us, he whisked diamond dust into the hardy firs and threw capes of fabrics about the shivering limbs of the other trees There were times when he cased each slender twig with dazz- ling crystal that slid tinkling to the ground in the warmth of mid-day.
There were none who appreciated the trees as much as those ardent ones who found the security of a foliage screen ample protection from the maternal espionage that seemed to radiate from Newell Hall. At that time (shall I say "even" at that time) the system had acquired pene- trating efficiency.
The trees at Normal are cheerful trees. They inspire. confidence. What secrets they have heard whis- pered to them they have kept. They have seen Normal grow and have grown and branched with it, sending their roots deeper into the earth and their branches higher into the blue- Let us stop here. I don't feel that I could go further without sermon- izing-a disastrous thing. My best wishes to all who find the trees at Normal their friends.
IMPRESSIONS.
The excursion of our students to the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition is now a memory. To write about one's impressions is a matter of walking around the gallery of the mind and pausing before this and that picture to admire, to enjoy and to treasure the experiences that each portrays Of course, one cannot say just where one picture begins and the other ends. Unlike a palace of fine arts where each picture hangs neatly in its frame the pictures of the mind overlap, crowd behind each other and even shine through the transparent forms of those in front.
An enormous bell grows larger and larger until one is swept away with it leaving but a broad yellow expanse, empty save for some pink and yellow knobs that swell and disappear 1h bewildering confusion. Through the pink and yellow expanse of the bell, transparent, now, and fading, comes the vision of long narrow prisms,
buff, orange and yellow. A tower pushes its imposing form ont of the corner and stands, beautiful, for some reason that one can never grasp. The broad, smooth expanse draws itself together, here land there, wrinkling into a design or ornament. Many faces scatter them- selves before the picture and sweep in on one, like an overwhelming flood of driftwood. The gate regis- ters number 2,576,394.
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