Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 130

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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Characteristics of Wish Fulfillment.

Wish fulfillment, usually symbolic, follows the lines of the pleasure prin- ciple. In neurotics, who are fixated upon low levels of infantile life, the pleasure "guiding lines" are there- fore of infantile nature. To the matter of infantilism we must next turn.

The two great dominant factors in child life are the father-imago and the mother-imago. The mother, in most cases. represents the Great Primordial Mother of Jung, to whom we return or regress when reality becomes too hard for us-a great restful refuge from the struggle of existence. The father image, on the other hand, is apt to represent a re- pressive and domineering factor in the life of the child. It is he who imago.

constrains and represses. From understood, is a primitive form of

these two imagos are derived the affection or love, hence the derivation of Narcism.

principles which are fundamental

"fictitious guiding lines" of the libido-the great Pleasure and Pain principles which underly all exist- ence. All adult life being permeated through with infantilism, we must look for its characteristics in every mature individual. For each of us, life is a struggle between the kindly haven of the maternal imago and the harsh repressiveness of the father imago. The struggle of existence represents, regressively the conflict with the struggle against the father. The rewards of society symbolize the rewards given by the mother to her little child All subsequent rewards and punishments are reversions to this infantile pleasure-pain constel- lation.

Hence all the characters of mental life are found in the study of myths. Indeed, psychoanalysis has taken all the old Greek myths as titles for various complexes. Thus the story of OEdipus furnishes the name and Gestalt for the OEdipus Complex. Electra's unhappy fate figures in Adler's Electra Complex. Narcism is named from the myth of Narcissus. reality. It is because each of these myths re- life of the child that they persist as ful escape the greatest myths that the world has ever seen.

presents an actual experience in the ample of the fairy-tale as a delight-

Each child, like OEdipus, falls in love with his own mother, or, like Electra, marries her father. Each of us, like Narcissus, at one time in our career, falls in love with him- self. These myths are not impos- sihle stories. They are symbolic re- presentations of experiences we all have had.

The elements of infantile life, which we must look for in myths and fairy tales are: the pleasure-pain in the universal language of symbol- principle, the OEdipus principle, the ism, which transcends the provincial- Conquering Hero principle, the prin- ities of nationality and language.

cipal of psychic re-birth, the principle of infantile reminiscences, etcetera ('inderella,

In the fairy tale of Cinderella we find all these elements embodied.

One of the dominant fantasies of all the libido's strivings is that of the Great Hero. The struggles of

The principle of Deliverance, or psychic re-birth, is sympolized by the fairy god-mother who fills all her wishes. All neurotics long and yearn for a time of deliverance, a time of cleansing re-birth. This normal complex is found exaggerated in hebephrenic patients as a desire for death, regression, and then re- birth

Infantile reminiscences are repre- sented by the mice and the mouse- trap which are turned into a coach with six coachmen. In child life, such transformations of inanimate or infra-human life into human life are frequent. The wish-fulfillment involved is quite obvious.

The end of Cinderella is another opportunity for analysis. The two sisters throw themselves upon their knees, begging pardon of the re-born Heroine. She becomes rich, beauti- ful, admired-a truly desired psychic transformation. She marries the prince who takes her out of poverty and repressions-a symbolic form of the liberation of the personality from the various harsh repressions of

The whole tale is an excellent ex-

from reality into the realms of wish-fulfilling fantasy, In the fairy-tale all wishes are fulfilled The degraded personality undergoes rebirth and enters upon a brilliant and carnivalesque society of illus- trious hearts. This escape and de- liverance is symptomatic of all neu- rotic desires. It follows closely the lines of wish-fulfillment laid down by the psychoanalytic school

It is of great appeal to all children of all countires because it speaks of the strivings of the libido, and speaks

Dream and Delusion.

Novels, as well as fairy tales and myths, being products of the imagin- ation, are characterized hy the same elements of wish-fulfillment. Freud himself has analyzed, in a book called "Dream and Delusion." the novel called "Gradiva," of William Jensen, a German romantic novelist. "Gradiva" tells the story of a

comprehend all paranoiacs to human existence is a habit-distortion of an impulse common to all of us. young archaelogist who hunted all Rank has shown that the myth of over the world for a fantasy-born the birth of the hero is the key-myth of all religious systems, religion be- ing a form of fairy tale also charac- terized by escape from reality. woman whom he called Gradiva. He finally found her, and recognized her as a playmate of his childhood. He In had been searching all over the world Cinderella, the Ego, the "Me," the for an infantile reminiscence. He Bound Prometheus, is represented hy recognized her always by a peculiar the repressed Cinderella. The re- beauty of carriage which character-

pressive forces symbolized by her ized her, and called her "Gradiva"

after "Mars Gradivus" or "Beautiful-

family are the repressive force we all have felt in childhood from our In-Walking" (Bertgang). He re- father-and represent the syndrome called her carriage upon the sight of of the constellations of the father an old Greek plaque which depicted Identification, it will be a woman walking exquisitely.

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Such is the place of psychological forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, fantasy in the realm of adult litera- ture.

Conclusion.

Psychology has much of signifi -! can only be magnified.

cance to tell us about the character of myths, fairy tales, and eveu adult novels They are all products of the imaginations - all fantasies. And fantasies, by the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis, are constructed along the lines of the Lustprinzeps.

The first profound study of fairy tales has been made by men like Ricklin, Rank, Freud and others of the psychoanalytic school. Many of these studies are still untrans- lated, and hence for us unobtainable. "Wunscherfullung und Symbolik im Marchen" by Riklin is a fine study still unobtainable. Abraham in his "Traum und Mythus" which has been translated as "Dream and Myth", pre- sents a consummate analysis of this field.

The conclusion for us, in the words of the German poet, is: In den Dichtern traumt die Menscheit- mankind dreams through its poets (as well as its story-tellers ).

GO TO THE SESQUI SOON!

Have you been to the Sesqui? If not, why not? Have you thought that the exposition would not meas- ure up to your anticipations ? Have you doubted that it is worth the time and the money required to go? If you have, put away all your mis- givings and go. You will be well rewarded.

"To go or not to go"-that was the question of every Normal School girl and man when a trip to the Soqui-Centennial, at Philadelphia, was being planned by the Industrial Arts Department,

Over one hundred girls and boys from Normal School decided to visit the exposition, and are now num- hered among the Sesqui's visitors.

The Sesqui is a part of the com- mon celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the sign-

ing of the Declaration of Independ- shop is there as well as an old black- ence. Although some of the foreign countries backed out of taking part in the celebration there is still au unbelievable amount to be seen.

The United States Government Building is a small university in it- self because of the educational value of its displays. The building covers about 812 acres of land and is 60 feet to the ceiling over the main aisle, so is one of the outstanding features of the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition. It would require more than a day to see all there is to see in this building, with its machinery in operation and its reproduction of )

etc. After viewing these exhibits, one's appreciation of the opportuni- ties and wealth of the United States

The Foreign exhibits in the Palace of Agriculture were very interesting indeed. Among the countries repre- sented were Czecho-Slovakia, which exhibited glassware, china, beads, silk laces and rugs; Japan, which showed lacquer ware. paper products, ivory work, green tea, etc .; Persia, in which place were found Oriental goods, rugs, shawls, perfumes, neck- laces, amher and numerous other ar- ticles; Spain, royal tapestries, an- tique and modern paintings and rugs, wrought-iron work, laces and silk; Tunisia, which was represented by a typical Tunisian Village with all the marked features and characteristics of those countries north of the Sa- hara, and the Indian building, which presents exhibits covering mauners, customs and manufactures of India

The Palace of Fine Arts consists of exhibits of sculpture and paint- ings in the United States and in for- eign countries. It has on its walls a great many of the prize-winning

pictures of the last ten years. In the Sculpture Section of

the United States will be found a room contain- ing a group of portrait heads and works by Charles Grafly; a room de- voted to the works of Albert Laessle. and another to the sculptural pro- ducts of Paul Manship.

In the International Section there are paintings, sculpture, and objects of art from France, Germany, Spain. Jugoslavia, Russia, Japan, Persia and Canada. There is one gallery con- taining many of the works of the late Auguste Rodin.

The Pennsylvania State Building is typically American and serves to memorialize an event of 150 years ago, as well as the present greatness of the State in industry, resources, culture, government, and art.

The most unique part of the en- tire exposition is a reproduction of old Market Street, Philadelphia, 1776 style. There are more than a dozen full-sized buildings, modeled after the originals. They are furnished too. Benjamin Franklin's print smith shop; the office of the Conti- nental Government's secretary of for- eign affairs, the town hall, Friend's Meeting House. a dame school, and the homes of some famous early Americans. The streets, sidewalks and street lamps are of colonial style.

These sights are only a few of the wonders to be seen at the Sesqui- Centennial Exposition, but these alone have served tc enrich the hearts and minds of the Towson Nor- mal School students who visited Philadelphia

Margaret Rohrer, Sr. 12.

THE HAND.

A hand lay in the gutter, palm down. It had been severed from the arm at the wrist, evidently crushed, for particles of splintered bone could be seen through the jagged edges of skin and flesh.

The waxy skin that covered it was coarse and horny, and must have been cast when alive, like the skin of a workman's hands. Deep seams divided the skin into numerous ir- regular patches The seams had been filled with mud and now the hand was covered with black lines criss-cross like the network of roads on a map.

It's long fingers were folded under in a clutching position as though they had endeavored to grasp some- thing. The third finger was gone; it had been lost a short time ago, for the scar was plainły discernable. The curved fingers had intercepted the muck of the gutter as it floated down with the water, and much of it had collected under the hand.

There was no blood about.

A passer-by stepped to the curb to cross the street. " he exclaimed, and stepped into the street, "a hand!"

He gazed at it in wonder and awe for a few moments. A hand-a human hand, mutilated and lying in the gutter. Where had it come

from ? He smiled and glanced about him. Another pedestrian saw him, and wondering at the grin, stepped over.

"What is it?" he asked.

"A hand! Somebody's hand here; must have been lost iu a fight or something." The other looked "Damn, it's ugly."

"Sure is" assented the first. Look how it's toru off. And the third finger is gone too. I don't see any blood, though."

"Washed away, I guess."

"I know, but there would be some in the street at that."

"Perhaps somebody threw it from a window."

"Can't say."

A third joined-then a fourth. Soon there was a crowd peering and questioning, jostling and shoving, all eager to see the object in the mud.

One woman fainted at the sight of the nightmare-evoking claw and thus added to the general excitement. Many people turned away and shud- dered in horror Others were in- clined to be humorous aud invented many pieces of wit centering about the dead hand. Still others, given to sentimentality, sorrowfully shook

their heads and pitied the poor wretch whose hand it had once been. And a few merely gazed without sen- timents of any sort, fascinated by the dirty hand as by a magnetizer,

(To be continued next month)

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Laugh It Off!

This notice was posted on the bul- letin board :- "Lost, a Human Me- chanism: If found, return to Mary Rhodes."

Marion, criticizing first her Geog- raphy Wind Map and then her size- "Oh my, I don't like my latitudes."

"Girls, I am returning these papers so you can see just where you are

Constable (looking down into the well)-"I knew there was a woman thick and where you are thin. All | at the bottom of this."

rights are reserved for Mr. Shaw).

"What's your topic for Health Ed. his wife where to get off is the con- ductor. term paper?"

"Teeth."

"Oh, we all have teeth."

Miss Keys-"What is the best way to prepare potatoes?" Jr .- "With their barks on."

Teacher (explaining tenses)-"If I said 'I had a car,' that would be past tense. Mary, if I said 'your father has a car,' what tense would that be?"

Mary-"Pretense."

In Health Ed. the other day the class was discussing the use of serum in the treatment of diphtheria.

Miss Steward-"Where does this serum come from?"

Student-"It's taken from the horse's blood and injected into us." Second Student-'-'That gives us more horsepower."

Mr. Shaw was seen talking with one of the boy's mothers.

Another mother-"There little boy with his mother."

To bring out the baby's wisdom teeth, let him chew on Daddy's Phi Betta Kappa Key.

The Caller (a young man)-"So Miss Ethel is your oldest sister. Who comes after her?"

Small Boy-"Nobody ain't come yet; but Pa says the first fellow who comes can have her."

"Oh, Doctor, what shall I do for Willie's ears; they stick out so?"

"Very simple, Madam; give him a radio for his birthday."

The latest song hit :- "She was just a dry goods dealer's daughter, but she had her notions."

Slightly Mixed.

Miss Medwedeff-"Miss Jones, tell us. just what is yeast."

Miss Jones (very confidentially ) - "Yeast is a tiny plant too naked to be seen with the small eye."

Professor (to student who has been late once more)-"When were you born ?"

Stude-"The second of April." Prof .- "Late again!"

There was a great confusion at Farmer Brown's home. Cries came for help from the well near by. The town constable was called to give aid to the sufferer.

Neighbors-"Oh, do hurry or it will be too late."

The only man who can really tell

Student, being arrested)-"But officer, I'm a student."

Officer-"Ignorance is no excuse."

Lady-"Why are you mailing those empty envelopes ?"

Gentleman-"I'm cutting classes in a correspondence course."

Anna-"What place does your boy friend hold on his family tree " Ruth-"I guess he's just the sap."

We were surprised to hear the other day that Mr. Mahaney had lost his Beard. We immediately pro- ceeded to search for this article, but found neither his moustache nor his history book

Sheik-"I guess you've been out with worse looking fellows than I am, haven't you?" (No answer). don't let your wife catch on.

"I say, I guess you've been out with worse looking fellows than I am,

goes a havein't you?"

She"I heard you the first time. I was just trying to think."

Miss McEachern (in her talk to the Miss McEachern (in assembly)- "Thursday night we are having a Juniors about Mothers' Week)- "Now be sure you all bring your pil- concert here and the pianist is play- lows and your mothers to sit on Fri-

ing on Chopin's own piano. It is the piano that he played ( meaning composed) his funeral dirge on."

Who Would Have Thought It?

Sue (after the girls on the sleep- ing porch had been discussing how many times they had been kissed)- "Well, for myself, boys don't kiss me until I'm engaged to them."

Elizabeth-"Well for land's sake, Sue. how many times have you been engaged ?"

First Co-ed (spending week-end in country)-"Oh, what pretty little chicklets!"

Second Co-ed (spying several small pigs)-"And what adorable little piglets!"

Farmer-"You're mistaken, young |lady; them's hamlets."

Miss Weyforth (in music class)- "What problem has arisen now that we never had before?" Student-"Triplets "

A heavily veiled young woman ad- dressed the clerk at the hosiery counter in a large down-town depart- ment store:

"Have you any flesh-colored stock- ings?" "Yes, madam," replied the clerk; "What color will you have pink, yellow, or black?"

William pointed to a preacher and asked his mother: "Mamma, who is that man?"

"Hush, darling, that's the gentle- man that married me." William ( perplexed ) "Then, what's Pa hanging around our house for all the time?"

"Dear Annie Laurie: I am in love with two men-one has money, the other is poor. Which one shall I marry ?"

Undecided-"Marry the poor one and send me the address of the other."

Johnny - flunked in seven quizzes, dad, and the professor said I was stupid " Dad-"Never mind, son; your daddy did the same thing fifty years ago."

If an artist were to paint a picture of a person skating, we suppose it would require a great many sittings.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but

"Is football your favorite game?" "No, quail on toast is mine; what's yours ?"

day night."

"If you don't think Tower Light jokes are funny, just burn a copy and listen to the fire roar."

It was a wet day, and as a pretty girl entered the crowded car a man rose to his feet.

"No, you must not give up your seat. I insist." said the young woman. "You may insist as much as you please, Miss." was the reply; "I'm getting out here."

Jonah (inside the whale) -"I wish I'd brought my camera along. No- body'll believe it."

Miss Steward-"Why do we call pasteurized milk pasteurized ?"

Student-"Because the cows feed lin the pasture."

Dec. 1926

TOWER - LIGHT

STATE TE .

BALHANDAL , WEILAND

Accept From Us This Merry Time, Greetings Warm For Auld Lang Syne.

TOWER LIGHT

Vol. 6-No. 3

DECEMBER, 1926

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

A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT FROM LIDA LEE TALL.

Heap on more wood,

The wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,

We'll keep our Christmas merry still .- Scott.

These lines of Scott's always stir in me some emotion which I call the Christmas spirit. Quite comparable to it are the emotions our Normal School campus stirs year by year- the carol singing in assembly; the carols ringing clear on the night air, when groups of students stroll across the campus; the lighted Christmas Tree; the scent of the pine in the hallways! This year the plans for the Old English Christmas Dinner, to be given in the dormitory the Tuesday before our holidays will mean a climax never reached before.

Delve deep into these traditions of the Normal-give your emotions full play with the charming associations, and let them grow into the warp and woof of your loyalty to Towson.

A Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!

Lida Lee Tall.

THE OLD YULE LOG WILL BURN AGAIN.

One of the loveliest customs of Merrie England will be revived again at Normal this Christmas. Great preparations are being made to cele- brate a real old English Christmas. The old English architecture of our dining hall will be quite in keeping with the feudal

gathering. The King and Queen will be here, sur- rounded by his lords and ladies of the court. At his feet will sit pages. An assembly of common people will gather to receive their Christmas blessing from their king. The merry- making will begin by the Ilghting of the Yule Log. This will be followed by a song. As the Wise Men bore gifts to the Christ Child, so will we bear gifts to those who have served us. From the boar's head to the plum pudding, the dinner will take us back to Old England in the days of Dickens. The humble servitors will voice their thanks by singing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,"

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while the common people are leaving OUR VOICES VOICE CHRISTMAS. the hall. Many treats will await us in the foyer after the dinner, as all Once more Christmas time has come, and once more the students at Normal have been imbued with the spirit of Christmas. This is the in- evitahle result of Miss McEachern's ability to give to the school the best carols and songs. sing "Masters In This Hall." The cutain will unroll upon a Christmas play. This will be followed by the singing of carols around the Christ_ mas tree, after which the Glee Club and a part of the orchestra will sing carols throughout the streets of Tow- son.

The closing event of the season is the program given by the Girls' and

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Men's Glee Clubs Tuesday at 3 o'clock, December 21, 1926. The

program is as follows:

1. Processional-Bethlehem, Gou- nod; Girls' Glee Club and orchestra. 2. While By My Sheep-17th Cen- tury: Glee Club and school.

3. The Christmas Story-accord- ing to St. Luke.

4. (a) Shepherd's Christmas Song -Austrian Folk Song.

(b) Harken Every True Believ- er .- Noel Bressau; Girls' Glee Club. 5. Ave Maria - Bach - Gounod ; Julius Hettleman.

6. (a) The Sleep of the Child Jesus-Old French. (b) A Joyful Christmas Song -Gevaert; Girls' Quartette.

7. Masters in

the

Hall-Old

French; Girls' Glee Club.

8. Boots and Saddles-English, 17th Century; Boys' Glee Club.

9. Jesus Bambino-You; Girls Glee Club and School.

10. (a) Carol of the Russian Chil- dren-Traditional.

(b) Everywhere Christmas To- night-Traditional; Girls' Quartette. 11. Let Our Gladness Know No End; Girls' Glee Club and School. 12. Christmas Dawn-March the Wise Men; Girls' Glee Club.

13. Silent Night; Glee Club and School.

The public is

invited .- Margaret Rohrer, Sr, 12.

A PRAYER.

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating con_ cernn and duties. Help Is to perform them with laughter and kind faees, let cheerfulness abound with industry.

Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and con- tent and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. Amen.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

FRANCE IN WINTER.

France in winter! What a pic- ture that bring's to one's mind. How different it must be from the sunny, balmy France of summer and autumn.

In approaching the northern coast one sees not the gay, green island of Alderney, with Its fields of young are large, round, iron stoves burning charcoal. There are several under each broad awning. The crowds pull up their chairs near the fire and order their vin blanc and vin rouge. It would not be Paris without these outdoor cafes, even in winter. They are an institution. wheat, its flowering hedge fences and the large vari-colored umbrellas along the strip of yellow sand bor- dering this gem of the ocean, but rather one sees a quiet, gray mound of earth rising above the cold, blue Atlantic. The fields are bare, the hedges are brown and tall trees lift To see and to know France in their bare arms up to a lowering sky. summer is to realize unimagined de-

And Normandy? It is always lights. Its fertile fields, its pictur- quiet, peaceful and picturesque. But esque villages, its historic cathedrals now we find the big blue wagons and crumbling chateaux give one al

drawn by large white horses no more feeling of being transported almost

into the realm of unreality. The feeling which always accompanies dreams which come true! But to know all one must heed the advice of all Frenchmen, which is: "You must see France in winter."

William Phipps. Seventh Grade Critic Teacher.

CHRISTMAS IN THE SOUTH.

A Southern Christmas is a thing as warm and sunny as our Southern climate. The Christmas spirit seems to be everywhere, and by Christmas Eve night excitement pervades the very air.

In my small southern home every- one is "down town" by nightfall, burdened with bulky packages. The streets are lined with Negroes, who peer eagerly into the gay windows and greet one another in loud and happy voices.

Later in the evening the fire- crackers and skyrockets are shot high into the air, and the sky is bright with their sparkles. Every now and then the noise quiets down and one hears the merry. carolers, who stop before some bright window

The Jardin de Luxembourg pre-Ito sing their good wishes.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 130

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