Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 129

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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After all, money is the necessary thing to keep up our Athletic Asso- ciation. If you have not paid your dues, won't you please do so, just as soon as possible?

Evelyn Wieder.

GIRLS' ATHLETIC NEWS.

rivalry with our interclass and in- tersection teams.

There are three divisions of our present system this term: advanced hockey. beginners' hockey, and games. At the beginning of the year we were allowed to select that in which we were most interested.

We are now running a tournament in hockey and have organized a first, second, third and fourth team within the different groups that take hockey. This tournament will last for two weeks During this interval the regular classes are not held, but all students must report to the games and play in at least two out of three.

Saturday, November 13, there was a game between the Pests and Nor- mals. Normals won 3 to 1. At a later date there will be a game be- tween the Juniors and seniors.

Helen Nicodemus.

TENNIS! TENNIS!

"If you want to play a game,

Play a game that has great fame, Play a game of tennis."

Tennis for girls here at school has a very prosperous future. The fair lassies may be seen with their rac- quets at any time of the day. If the interest that is displayed now con- tinues to increase, the Athletic As- sociation will have to make more courts. This would indeed be a great pleasure for them.

An open tennis tournament is now on. It began November 6th and is scheduled to run until November 23rd. There are twelve contestants in the tournament, who are: Grist, Gough, France, Reily,, Dickey, Shull, Grimes, Sphritz, Kemmet, Niclos, Miller.

I feel sure that the results will bring forth a competitor for the title that Helen Wills now holds.

With such a splendid beginning of tennis so early in the year, I think it will make the old saying: "First impressions are lasting," come true We are, however, planning for a big spring season. The question is, what will the spring bring forth in tennis? Louise Manuel, Sr. 12.

GIRLS' HOCKEY, DID YOU SAY?

Yes, this is an interesting topic, and it is especially so at the Mary- land State Normal School beeanse the girls are just in the midst of a very promising season

The girls' athletic system has been School spirit is heing kept alive by having teams picked from all changed from that of last year. We do not play teams of other schools, | classes. During class periods, and but find lots of fun, school spirit andat after-school classes, the physical

instructors are coaching these teams, and a tournament is to be played among the sections. There will be a final game between the Juniors and the Seniors to decide the champion- ship of the school.

Who will win? That is the ques- tion. There is splendid material in both classes, and this material is being used to good advantage.

The games are being arranged and sponsored by the Athletic Association of the school .- Mary Wherrette.

OUR SOCCER TEAM.

Normal's soccer team is enjoying one of its best seasons. Although we have tied our last four games, we have yet to lose a contest. Our games and the scores to date are:

2 Towson 1.

2 Franklin 1

1 Catonsville 0.

1 Towson 0.

2 Navy Plebes 1.

0 Forest Park 0. 0 Forest Park 0.

1 Westminster 1.

2 Barton 2.

3 Frostburg 3.

The Frostburg trip was a great success from the team's viewpoint. We enjoyed ourselves immensely and arrived in Barton about 7.30 P. M. Thursday. Coach Shanks ordered everyone to bed early in order that we be in best condition for the Bar- ton game the next day.

Practice Friday morning was at- tended with much enthusiasm that undoubtedly lasted until after the game. In that game we partly avenged last year's defeat by battling the Barton team to a two to two tie. Immediately after the game, we left for Frostburg.

Most of the boys spent the evening seeing all and buying part of Frost- burg. Mahaney, being afraid of the Frostburg girls, retired quite early.

Finally, game time Saturday ar- rived. Mueller passed to Mahaney and the battle was on. Up and down the field the ball soared with no ap- preciable advantage for either team. Suddenly, with little warning, the ball was centered before the Normal goal, and a wild cheering announced a goal for Frostburg. Were we dis- couraged ? I should say not. Within five minutes the score was tied by a well directed boot from Ed Mueller's educated toe. The half ended with the score tied 1 to 1.

The second half had barely started when Ted Lawlis made his contribu- tion to the scoring sheet and ad- vanced Normal to a 2· to 1 position. The game progressed rapidly with

Frostburg fighting determinedly,

when Normal incurred a penalty In a heated scrimmage before her goal. Frostburg succeeded in her try and thereby tied the score, 2 to 2. The teams took their positions and kicked off, and within three minutes Frost-

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burg had scored her third goal. Things seemed dark for Normal, but the old fighting spirit was still there. The best we could hope for was a tie score, and we got it. Three minutes before the end of the game a fonl' sports. You should have been with us on initiation night if you doubt our word.

was called against Frostburg and a free kick was awarded Normal. Everyone held his breath as Capt. Since our first meeting we have Mahaney sent the leather spinning had many hikes which have been

toward the goal. The Frostburg quite delightful. We are looking

goal tender made a valiant effort to forward to a prosperous and save the ball, but Normal was not successful year, so keep your eyes to be denied; the score was tied and open as to the whys and whereabouts the game saved.

The only cloud to spoil our pleas- ures was due to our leaving Frost- burg Sunday without Seiverts, who had been painfully injured in the early minutes of Saturday's game. 1

Friday, November 12, we play Frostburg on North Campus, and if the predictions of the team mean anything, the game will be well worth seeing -Harry T. Murphy.

Y. W. C. A. NEWS.

The Young Women's Christian As- sociation of the M. S. N. S. was among the first organizations to get under way this year.

Almost the first thing that con- fronted our new Juniors were the affiliation cards, and by Sunday morning every Junior knew where she could find her own church.

On Sunday evening the Y. W. C. A. held its first vesper services. Miss Tall was the speaker for the occasion. We felt sure that everyone profited by Miss Tall's talk.

The Y. W. C. A. holds its vesper services every Sunday evening. We have been quite fortunate; we have had many fine speakers, one of whom was Miss Agnes Snyder.

We are quite proud of our coming program, which is as follows:

Nov. 14-Miss Hall.

Nov. 21-Musical.

Dec 5-Goncher or Johns Hopkins president.

Dec. 19-Xmas carols and stories. Every Wednesday morning the Y. W. C. A. holds chapel services which have been most successful, and which promise much for the future.

The Y. W. C. A. has been active. We have sent members to other Y. W. C. A. conferences and have given a tea for all the local pastors.

At present our big membership drive is on. Don't you want to be a member? Lanra Bollman, Sr. 11.

CAMP FIRE NEWS.

The Lileta Camp Fire Organiza- tion of the M. S. N. S. held its first meeting on September 28. An elec- tion of officers was held, the result being:

Elizabeth Poole, president.

Laura Bollman, secretary.

Viola Hatter, treasurer.

We are very sorry to lose Miss Woolsey, our former guardian, but we are very glad to have as her snc- cessor, Miss McBride. Our new Juniors are real

of the Camp Fire Girls.

Laura Ballman, Sr. 11.

GRANDMOTHER'S PATCHWORK QUILT.

Mary Woodward Norman, Sr. 3.

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Dorothy, who lived in a little cottage on a great, big moun- tain with her grandmother, who was very, very kind to her.

In front of the cottage there was a little garden, and here grandmother raised many pretty flowers. People sometimes came to the great big mountain because. you see, it was very beautiful, and they liked to look at it, and the people who came to see the mountain always stopped at the little cottage and bought some of grandmother's pretty flowers.

Sometimes Dorothy would help grandmother pull the ugly weeds ont of the garden.

In the warm afternoons, grand- mother would sit in the doorway of the little cottage. with Dorothy at her feet, and wait for people to huy her flowers.

It was the evenings just before bed-time that Dorothy loved She would sit on grandmother's lap and listen to the most wonderful stories. There was one story that Dorothy loved to hear again and again, and that was the story of grandmother's patchwork quilt.

When the fire was burning mer- rily, grandmother would take Dor- othy on her lap and tell about this wonderful patchwork quilt. "It was just like a blanket, warm and large," grandmother would say, "and it was made of many kinds of silk, and many different colors. I began this lovely quilt of colors when I was a young girl, and after it was finished everyone admired it and loved it. But when you were very small, Dor- othy, I had to sell the lovely patch- work quilt, because we were very, very poor." And grandmother would sigh, and sometimes cry, to think that she had lost her lovely patch- work quilt.

One day, early in the morning, Dorothy took a little basket and started off into the woods to pick some berries. She hunted and

hunted, but she could not find any berries, so she kept walking farther

and farther up the mountain. Soon she grew very tired, so she sat down on a hig rock to rest. Now, from this rock you could look far down into the valley, and what she saw made her gasp with pleasure.

Dorothy ran back to the little cot- tage as fast as she could go, and cried "I've found it! I've found it." "What?" cried grandmother. "What have you found?"

"Come, I'll show you," cried Dor- othy; so together they went up the great, big mountain until they came to the big rock, and then they looked down into the valley, far below.

"Look," cried Dorothy, "look! I've found your lovely patchwork quilt." And when grandmother looked down into the valley, she knew that she had found a quilt-but such a quilt!

For the wonderful patchwork quilt, which lay far below in the val- ley, had been made for grandmother and Dorothy by "Mother Nature," and in making it, "Mother Nature" had used all those things dear to her: the bright green fields of grass; the silver streams, the dark green-leaved trees, and the yellow roads to make this-the loveliest of patchwork quilts.

A CRITICISM OF A DEMONSTRA- TION LESSON.

Junior Fourteen ohserved in the Campus Sixth Grade room during a literary period. Miss Vaughan and the children were reading together "TheLife of St. Francis" by Miss Jewett.

Biography is snited to the age and interests of these children, because of its concreteness, idealism and its interesting relation to history and geography.

A member of the class gave a brief synopsis of what had been read be- fore. This served not only as a re- view for his class, but also linked ns up with the day's lesson.

Then Miss Vaughan fed these beauty-craving minds with some of the most exquisite readings from "The Life of St. Francis." She had the power to awaken and direct the children's appreciation of good literature, by her own joyous re- sponse to beanty. Strayer says "The fundamental qualification for the teacher is the power to appreciate: she must enjoy to the full that which she hopes to make appear beautiful in the eyes of the pupils." We felt that appreciation could easily be, with this class, a matter of contagion.

Miss Vanghan had carefully pre- pared the lesson and was able to skip from one part of the story to another, leaving out the less important part. and still making the story coherent and clear. This is advisable when the story is lengthy, because yonng children will lose interest if the read-

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ing is continued for a long time But 'it's a piano. Fooled again, I'll bet. | his bootlegger a lot. He used to do in this story no one showed any lack You know what a piano is. Modu- that you know; he was so patriotic, though, that he drank only Scotch whiskey. Well, maybe he did in- dulge in rye once in a while, but that's named after a Scotch river (Comin' thru the Rye), so he was patriotic there too. But this is not the biography of Robert Burns, but of another great man. of interest. During her reading Miss late from C to G, that's right. I can Vaughan interrupted herself several always recognize C-it comes before times to call the children's attention to the beautiful expressions used, and also for judgment of the con- tents of the story. She wished to impress upon the children the beauty of the model expressions.

To add variety to the lesson and to give the children an opportunity for expression members of the grade were asked to tell other stories of the Saint's life. None were urged,

but all were invited. This was again in accordance with Strayer's princi- ples: "Children should not be forced to give expression to feelings within the facts.

them." Nevertheless, the children were allowed to have an active part in the recitation apparently without their knowing it. I was born in the merrie month of May, when flowers are singing and birds are blooming; you've heard the expression: those blooming hirds Stormzard says, "There should be Blooming birds are those like the an air of informality about a class| red-red robin and the bye-bye black - room." Miss Vaughan seemed more hird, and perhaps the follow-the- swallow. What follows the swal- low? Peristalsis, of course; ask Mrs. Masland.

We considered the demonstration a most successful one, because it seemed that appreciation of good literature was heing instilled in the hearts and minds of the children .- Junior 14

AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

By Arthur Lichtenstein, Sr. 8.

Well, that's when I was born. I When I was first approached on the subject of don't recall much about the event it- an article for the Tower Light, I was "stuck." But I happened to be reading the American Magazine a few days later-you know, the one in which all the hig self, except that I didn't have a sil- ver spoon. in my mouth Or, if ) did, it was such a small one, that, true to the instinct of manipulation, I swallowed it. My digestion has butter-and-egg men write their auto-|never been the same. The same as biographies and tell how they became | what, you may ask. Ah, that is the rich and famous, though unable to; question.

read or write. I never did believe that stuff, myself, but after reading these autobiographies, I am con- vinced that they certainly don't know how to write. Maybe they can read -a little.

As I was saying, I was reading the magazine aforementioned, when an inspiration struck me athwart the! 80, in my second childhood, in fact. prow-cr-hrow. I! I would do the same thing. Perhaps the story of my trials and success would serve as teenth birthday. What a surprise,

an inspiration to the Normal School students, and the many others who go to the Normal School. In the words of the Bible-or is it some book of Shakespeare's-perhaps they would "go thou and do otherwise." So I took my typewriter In hand (a figure of speech; it's not a portable ) -by the way, riddle: What has ivory keys which you strike and they give out sounds? Answer next weck All right, I won't tease you any longer;

two black keys; or is it three? I'm all mixed up again, but I tell you. If you really want to know, ask Miss Weyforth or any of the music teach- ers. If they can't tell you, I guess nobody can, not even Miss Tall.

But this will never do. I started to tell how I was inspired to write this story of my life, but it looks as if this will never turn out to be a story of my life. I never was much

of a story-teller. Naughty, naughty, that was a story then; I wonder if you recognized it ? But let's get to

To proceed: Having reached my nineteenth birthday and still lacking a good education, I decided to go to the Maryland State Normal School at Towson and learn smething. I wasn't particular what it should be, which later proved fortunate. . .

I am still a student (?) at this school and perhaps will be the rest of my life, or until the next war. Then, if I am young enough to be eligible, and have nothing against me, I'll go serve my country. That is my lifelong ambition, but I won't fight in any war if they nse this poison gas. I can't stand Limburger cheese either, and I don't think it's fair.

To sum up, my favorite breakfast food is oatmeal; I prefer my eggs without the shells, my favorite drink is soda-water (not like the kind Mr. Burns preferred) and my favorite writer is Immanuel Kant. That is for light reading; for deeper stuff, I prefer Caruso. Not Caruso, the

Caruso. I always thought I'd like to live on a desert island-if I could come home over the week-ends

For further information, write the editor, or you may write direct to me, care of C. Coolidge, Washington, D. 0 That my secretary, who handles all my affairs. For twenty- five cents in stamps, I will send you an autographed picture. Please specify whose picture you would pre- fer.

SENIOR CLASS PLANS.

The Senior Class is very, very busy with its mid-term activities. They are fairly seething with energy. This is the time of the year when our plans are being made and only time will tell how these schemes are going to unfold. The Tower Light is our first and most important thought. We want an annual, one that will be a true reflection of our school and of our class. But before our Annual can be launched, we must first show that we can and will support The Tower Light After we have proved that, our plans decidedly include a good year book.

The Class Gift Committee is also bristling with plans. Our gift to our school, the very last opportunity we have of letting hier know just what these two years have meant to us must be such a gift with such a spirit back of it, that even decades from now the influence of the Class of

you may exclaim. Well, life is full of surprises. Didn't the great Scotch poet and cigar manufacturer say, "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley " He must have been a sailor; he used the term aft and that's a nautical word. I didn't say naughty word, that's something else again. Many nautical words are naughty, I will admit, but none of the kind Bobby Burns used. Except maybe when he had been patronizing 1927 will be felt through that gift.

As I had begun to tell, I was born

like a companion to the children than a teacher, because of relaxed position, easy manner, simple ques- tions and suggestions. Moreover, the little narrators were at their ease in May. What year, I don't exactly because Miss Vaughan allowed them to sit down by her and talk in a natural manner. remember, but you could look it up in the Hagerstown almanac. It was the year it was so much hotter in August than in January. No, not 1776; I'll tell Miss Eckford on you. Anybody knows that was the date of singer-he's dead; I mean Robinson the Civil War., or was it the War of 1812? No, it couldn't have been the

War of 1812, because the War of 1812 must have been somewhere around 1812. It was the Civil War, I thought so all the time.

In the course of time, I reached my seventh birthday. This having been accomplished, in the next ten years I passed my 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th birthdays. At the end of this period I was about 18 years of age. Mentally, I was about 75 or The next year came a momentous event in my life; I reached by nine-

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Our class banner is in the process

of being designed and made, and when it arrives, a finished pro- duct, we are planning a fitting cele- bration for such an important event. The Senior Class also wants to raise its scholarship standards and really put 1927 on the Honor Roll.

But, above all, we want to have and keep high ideals. Always be- fore us we see these questions: "Is the Maryland State Normal School any better for our being here? Have we received more than we have given, or have we truthfully not garet Haines. Sr. II.

WHO'S WHO AT M. S. N. S.

We're going to try to introduce to you some of our celebrities, who walk the halls or play center on the stage at Normal. You'll probably know the people of whom we're talking, but perhaps we can give you some points of interest which will concern you in relation to them.

First on our stage is Elizabeth France, alias "Sally," president of the General Student Council. When we think of Elizabeth our minds' eye instantly pictures the daily as- sembly with her standing before us, making her earnest plea for the Student Council or arousing our en- thusiasm for our

coming "Sing Song." But who is it that's 100% for Normal School? Who is it that is raising the standards of our Stu- dent Cooperative Government from the Valleys to the Heights, as well

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as more than holding her own in her classes? Why, Elizabeth France, I Safety should say.

Branching off from the General Student Council we bring before you the steadfast, earnest face of the president of the Day Student Council, and incidentally a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Fraternity. Mil- dred Herman has, during the few weeks since the opening of school raised the standard of the Day Stu- dent Council to a height which it has never reached before. Just watch Mildred's capable methods of hand-

one of the reasons why our Normal School ranks above the average. (To be continued next month )

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FAIRY TALES AND MYTHS.

By Irving Van. Sollins. Maryland State Normal School 1926.

Wish Fulfillment and Symbolism.

All phantasy products, such as the dream, the daydream, the myth and the fairy tales, are chiefly character- ized by the wish-fulfillment elements they embody.

Wish-fulfillment is a Freudian jerm designating the pleasurable hedonic tone of all products of the imagination. The guiding principle of life, laid down by the psychoan- alyists, is the pleasure-pain principle, or Lustprinzeps. It is the guiding line of all mental life.

The dream is the best-known example of wish-fulfillment. Prof. Dr Sigmund Freud, in his Traum- deuting (Dream Psychology ) has elaborated the wish-fulfilling phan- tasy as the fundamental interpreta- tion of dream life. Day dreams, like night-time dreams, are characterized by the same principle.

The myth and the fairy tale are folk-expressions of deep-seated wish- fulfillments. "The myth is a folk dream which contains in a cryptic symbolic language an expression of the unconscious wish-excitations and fulfillment-hallucinations of the folk- mind." ("The Meaning of the Dream Symbolism," Wilhelm Stekel, Vienna).

Myths contain all the symbolic ele- ments characterizing individuals' dreams and fantasies. Otto Rank, in his "Myth of the Birth of the Hero" has pointed out the similarity be- tween the individual and the social workings of the psyche. Dreams, myths, fairy and traditional stories present the same kind of psychic structure.

To understand the psychological nature of myths and fairy tales, then. we must investigate the nature of wish-fulfillment and symbolism. In these things is an explanation of the psychological attractiveness of all these things.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 129

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