Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 144

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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Adele Flook.

SOCIAL GOSSIP.

Curiosity caused many students, on February 15th, to stray from their usual courses to conveniently gaze into their vacant mail boxes in search of nothing at all. Thanks to the and error.

placement of these treasure chests, from them once can obtain a clear view of Richmond Hall parlor. The parlor was being decorated most at- tractively, for, as we discovered, a staff valentine party. Some students enjoyed dressing the parlor in its loveliest gown for the great occas- ion. The students especially found great pleasure in "stringing the celebrities of our school a line." These lines led the guests a merry chase for their partners. Among the guests were Mrs. Keech, Mrs. Sammis, Miss Andres, Dr. Baker and Dr. Burdick. Refreshments were served by Miss Rudd, aided by a committee. Now I'm not the old Dutch clock in "The Duel," but don't fancy l exaggerate because I got my news from Miss Riley's slate.

A room of fluttering hearts-of lovely ladies-of many dancing fig- ures amid a few card champions! You may recognize this broken Eng- lish as a means of describing our dance of February 19th. We wish to pay tribute to Miss Tall, who so kindly gave the Valentine dance to the Seniors. It was a lovely dance! Many students deemed it the best dance of the season. The social dancing was made more interesting by the introduction of many special features. There was a grand march and a Paul Jones. Everyone par- ticipated in

the Lucky Number Dance. In this dance each couple received a number; when the or- chestra ceased playing its gay tunes everyone stood motionless and lis- tened for his number; the unlucky ones became observers while the lucky couples danced with additional pleasure in their feeling of victory. The couples continued until but one lone couple remained on the floor. This couple was not crowned with a wreath of laurel, but they received something more practical, more use- ful, something of which they were more appreciative-a balloon ta

amuse them in idle moments.

My account would be incomplete without thanking Miss Roach for being responsible for those most en. joyable dances, "The Minuet" and "The Band Box Dance." The danc- ers in this case proved to be some of Miss Dowell's promising Fifth Graders.

"On with the dance! Let joy be jing?"

unconfined ;

No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet."

As quoted from Byron, this was the spirit of the Sigma Alpha Fra- ternity. Their buffet supper of March 5th was followed by a dance. Old fraternity brothers greeted new brothers, and there was a real fam- ily reunion. The "Frisco Five" is a fine orchestra, but, as yet, they have been unsuccessful as musicians playing in the dark. Yes, brothers, one method of learning is by trial

Ellen M .Clark.

OUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.

"Deck the halls with green crepe paper,

Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la;

Watch the girls that dance and caper, Tra-la-la-la-la_la-la-la-la."

What- Another month of birth- days? Yes, and this time St. Patrick himself presided. And best of all, we had Miss Tall with us.

The girls, in white, received green aprons and green bows, and the boys, looking more charming than we have

ever seen them, in their green feathered bonnets, green neckties and pipes which could hardly be seen, marched around while Wash- ing Lee Swing was being played.

There was one among us whose birthday we especially honored be- cause she has done, and still is doing so very much to make our school life happier. Of course, you know whom I mean-"dear Miss McEachern."

Then there was a surprise for us- Kitty Miller, in her green apron and cap, sang an Irish song, and Charlotte Harn, Eleanora Bowling, Kitty Miller and Mary Keech danced an Irish jig. We enjoyed this immensely, but the sad part of all. was yet to come. All

those who did not have birthdays in March were requested to leave. We do not know what took place, but I know the cake was all gone the next morning. (Perhaps the members of the "rogues' gallery" ate it.

LAUGH WITH JUNIOR NINE.

Streaker (giving a report in H. E.) -"Clothes of today are more sani- tary than they were years ago. For one thing, the skirts do not sweep the floor."

Miss Keys-"No, not hy a long ways,"

Miss Hall-"Now girls, after to- day's lesson, how many of you are going to say 'drug' for dragged? Miss Stup, are you?"

Alice-"Not unless I'm going to the drug store."

Miss Blood-"What man is going to the North Pole?" Lucille-"Byrd."

Miss Blood-"Yes, how is he go-

Lucille-"Fly, isn't he?"

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March, 1927.

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WHY I THINK MY EDUCATION HAS BEEN A FAILURE.

By Chas. Renn II. Alumuns of '24. "Young men and women," says the college bulletin on my desk, "realize more than ever before the full value of a general education."

This, as the opening paragraph, led me to read the dissertation that formed the first few pages of the jagged heights of an intelligent con- versation; my feet would be blistered by the burning sands of a simple chat. Some day my best friend will find that I cannot name all of the Presidents of the United States in order and that I am not familiar with the family secrets of the Wong dy- nasty. Then he will turn upon me with his face black with scorn and say, "To think that I have been ac- quainted with such ignorance!" pamphlet and planted the seeds of my present introversively gloomy state of mind. I learned. as I had long suspected, that the young man who started in life without having breathed deeply of the atmosphere of campus life and without the benedic- tion of a diploma had as much chance of becoming a successful social leader as the modern individual has of escaping pyorrhea. I gathered. that all life was one continuons battle Of political science I found I was innocent. Since the days when I and that only those whose hearts were strong, whose ideals were high, fervently recited from the little red history I had believed that all men were created as alike as two peas and that the Monroe Doctrine was a gift of God Himself. Now I am laughed at from.every editorial page. The light hurts my eyes and I feel that I

and whose hands were ready could reasonably entertain hopes of coming out unpunctured. Not only was it necessary for one to possess a goodly array of perfect viscera and a list of alibis that would shame a Sunday School teacher; but one had to come shall never be able to put np a pre- armed to the fray! One needed a sentable scrap with

the forces of tough shield of Latin, a brittle hel- darkness.

met of mathematics, burnished armor of natural science. an unyielding lance of classic literature, kneeboots reddened eyes, "I shall at least stand of medieval history. a broadsword of a chance." But no! I have climbed

political science and about two hun- only the outside ridge of hills. the dred pounds of miscellaneous cutlery. mountains are miles away, there are At first, as I read the description jungles to penetrate. The paths are of the young knight prepared to narrow and winding, the light is dim,

grapple with the shady powers of Ig- my echoes will deceive me. I do not norance, I felt the glow of pride that know enough physiological terms to passes from the scalp to the sole bewilder a third grade youngster. For years I have been biting into wormy apples and have never felt

when one steps into the street in a cool, new snit. In a few moments, having examined more minntely my the sympathy for the cute little lar- personal armament, I was plunged vae that lay cuddled in the core that in gloom.

I should have felt, as a lover of na- ture. Since the sixth grade I have thought that moths flew toward the light simply because the light at-

spots. Two hundred years ago the gentlemen of the Eng- tracted them. Imagine my surprise lish courts entertained with original to find doctors' dissertations written compositions in Latin. I could no upon so obvious a phenomena. I more recite "Twinkle, Twinkle Little learned that these gay little moths Star" in Latin than I could sing "Maryland My Maryland"

had nervous systems which. when in Can- diagrammed on paper, looked like the tonese. If Saint Peter should test upper Mississippi

Valley. 1 have my eligibility for entrance to the since come to understand that my celestial campus by asking me to original observations upon the pe- read three paragraphs of high school culiar gelatinous homogeneity of Caesar, I should be condemned to squash-ed moths were all wrong: that they possessed internal convolutions

everlasting blister. Because of my myself off from the subtleties of the complexities of a plumbing system.

wilful ignorance of Latin I had shut and concavities that approach the I tremble with fear lest my barber shall find what a dolt I am. Un- doubtedly he will make merry quips in Latin with the other barbers be- hind my scarlet face.

Muses and the exactness of the sci_ ences. I now blame my poor spell- ing for it. Who would have thought that a thing so ancient could hurt so much. The gloom hung heavy, heavy about my bowed head, there was "Thunder on the Left."

The other day I had lunch with a hook-keeper. Over the coffee hc said to me, "X is a perfect ignor-

My footwear was of deplorably fragile stuff. Certainly it could amus. Ile still thinks that the never carry me over the rocky and molecular weight of serum globulin

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"In the biologic sciences," I thought, sitting np and wiping my

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March, 1927.

is ahout eighty thousand."

"You don't tell me," said I. "The idiot. How could he be such a dumb-bell ?"

"Yes." continued the book_keeper, "I asked him the past Wednesday evening hy way of jest if the echino- derms and the hemichordates of the chordate series had free swimming cilliated larvae and the dunce said that he didn't know."

"Imagine such ignorance," said I, stirring my coffee furioso, "but after all, life is so short, perhaps we have been hasty in condemning X." I

The book-keeper glanced across the table at me and I scalded my Dulcinea --

throat with boiling coffee.

Heavy, blue, soggy clouds gather on the horizon. I collect my rusty Singing doubtful dulcet lies hardware. 1 heave great sighs. reach for my biology text to find "Foolish man. be wise!" what an echinoderm is.

CAN YOU IMAGINE

Weeder dressed in fairy clothes? Miss Spitzer playing basket ball? A row of Stutz cars in front of Newell Hall?

Margaret Rohrer skipping assembly? Pauline Stephens corresponding with a Sultan of Persia? Bill Mahoney writing an editorial? Mrs. Masland with poor posture? Miss Brown not being distressed to death over her student teachers? Foxy Van Sant in a fight? Miss O'Neil without a smile? Chester Davis not talking to girls? Miss Prickett not saying "Well"? Swartz being 4 feet tall? Mrs. McCord not being in a hurry? Waltz riding in a certain Dodge coupe ?

Dickey not on an athletic team?

Little Gus being lost in New York? Our fraternity hoys expecting the or- chestra to play in the dark? Irene Young not being a modern Shylock ? Ellen Clark being ambitious?

Margaret Haines without her nour_ ishment ?

Lida without "on account of"?

Sally France broadcasting "Moon- light and Roses" over Station W. E. A. F .?

Miss Roach being out of Miss Riley's room?

Miss Sperry not attending breakfast?

HIGHLIGHTS OF SR. 9.

Isn't Ace a trump? Jeannette says so ?

I wish Miss Lusby would give the class the benefit of her recipe for keeping that schoolgirl complexion. O, for the bluffy powers of-Sally! Don't you think it's time for Bessie to stop cheating the barber? Won't someone ask Miss Graff's hairdresser's address (and price ) ? Well, anyway, soon we all will be resting in Potter's Field after this pottery-making course in I. A. Mary Joe Stack, Sr. IX.

A SERIES OF FIVE POEMS TO THE PRINCESS ANINA. (By I. V. S.) SUN SCENE

Molten gold And a clot of blood The sun This day. Rinsing the sky Bathing the trees Dennding the earth To its latent beauty.

DULCINEA ( I)

The longing in your lovely languid eyes

I Warning yet enchanting me-

(11 )

Dulcinea- The crooning of your soulful sobbing song

This shall weaken me ere long Fold me deep in arms of loye- "Do not be too strong!"

FOLLY OF LOVE.

"La folie d'amour est entree dans le monde."-Anatole France. (I) Even unto folly do you love. Man-fool

The wind visioned this to me

Look on

This is for you to see. (II) A tree embossed upon the moon Has beauty

Yet need not love.

A tree stark naked, grim-

In its curtsy to the breeze

Has reason

Yet need not love.

A tree leaved in a film of green

Sighing shelter to the birds Has pity

Yet need not love.

(III )

Man-fool

Gawk astride two legs Look on

This is for you to see.

Even unto folly must you love.

QUESTION. (I)

One moment of beauty One moment happy -- Warm, deep, understanding, Passionate this moment.

(II)

Could I have held you In my arms this moment And loved ? Awake my life anew?

(III )

But is one moment's joy And forever after pain Enough to reawaken life So long has dormant lain?

Why do you hrood My dear? When Your lips are food For honey bees ?

(1I) Why do you fear- Must you groan? Of doubt stand clear And cease questioning. You alone Cannot love.

GLITTERING GOLD.

As the dew that clings to the rose at dawn,

And glitters, gem-like, in the sun, Whose many sparkling points of light

Are gone ere the morn is done; So o'er the span of years we sail In our glittering sail-ships of gold, We think that the sparkle will carry us on.

That our fame the sparkle will hold.

And yet, 'tis not the glistening dew, But the rose itself that we love, 'Tis the rose which clings in the dark of the night

While the rays of the sun are no longer above

It's only ourselves that honestly count

Not the glory, the gilt, nor the wealth, The own individual self! MARION L. BLOSS, Jr. 7.

A WORTHY PROJECT.

THE WEEKLY REPORTER:

A Journal Of Literature, Art And School News Events. Published By Grade Five-B Of The Govans School Every Week.

Editorial Staff :

Peter Eugene Costello . Editor Joseph Costello Assistant Reporters of The Weekly Reporter: School News-Helen Bennet, Virginia Zink.

Class News- Edwin Geigan.

Literature

and

Art -- Robert

Harner.

POETRY.

When the sun is setting Far below the hills

The birds seem to sing With soft and happy thrills.

Then comes nesting time, Then all is still;

Then from afar cross the meadow comes The call from the whipporwill,

Far away comes the call from his mate, Then all is still. Eugene Costello.

She was only a taxi-driver's daugh- Iter, but you ought to meter.

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March, 1927.

STUDENT TEACHING.

Of the six terms spent at Normal School. a student has two terms in which he gets a taste of teaching. The first opportunity comes in the Junior year in the course known as Participation. This course is only one day a week. In Participation little teaching is done but the stu- dent gets a broader view of the du- ties of the teacher. The second op- portunity a student has to teach is in the Senior year (Student Teaching), which is the work of an entire term. This means that every day for twelve weeks we teach or rather, attempt to teach.

The student teaching term is di- vided into two parts each consisting of six weeks. Only six weks are spent at a center. The reason for this is that it gives the student a chance to get a look at two city schools and therefore she gets a broader view of education in the ele- mentary schools of this city.

You can't appreciate Student Teaching until you have had the pleasant experience yourself. Of course it's like everything else in this world, anything that's worth while and you want, you have to work hard for.

You feel rather queer when you walk into a classroom for the first time and know that you are to do part of the teaching, to guide and de- velop these little people morally as well as mentally, to mold and shape human minds, personalities, and souls. But yet, you have some con- fidence in yourself.

It is left to your practice teacher to decide when your teaching shall be- gin. Some teachers let you observe the first week, others let you teach the second day. I had the pleasure of teaching the second day. I was pet- rified when my teacher told me to have a Nature Study lesson on wild flowers. What knowledge did I have of wild flowers? All I could think of were a few technical names from my course in biology at high school, such as some parts of a flower; leaves, pistil, stamens, etc. Did wild flowers have these parts?

Just what were some kinds of wild flowers? Well, you can guess what I did that afternoon when I went home. I went on a search through the woods for some wild flowers. I picked what I thought were some wild flowers, but I knew the name of only one- the golden- rod. I might add the month was September. I decided then and there I would attempt to teach a lesson on the goldenrod. I gathered enough goldenrod for forty children. That night I wrote my lesson plan. The meaning of a lesson plan can easily be expressed in one sentence, but only the students from the Maryland State Normal School know the phy- siral and mental activity involved.

The next morning going to school I looked like a walking woods. The schedule read: Nature Study, 9.10. My. I was so excited, but I forgot myself completely when I faced forty bright little faces. As I was new to them and they were new to me, there was a mutual interest. But after the lesson when the practice teacher said to me, "that wasn't half bad." I didn't know how to feel, but she smiled when she said it, so I supposed for a first lesson it was passable. When once the ice is broken you never mind getting be- fore a class no matter how large or how small.

Your knowledge of the technique of teaching grows as you observe your practice teacher and you your- self have more experience at teach- ing. You enjoy your Student Teach- ing more and more as the days pass and by the time the first six weeks are over you don't possibly see how you can leave your first center be- cause the first class seems to make the deepest impression on you. But you soon become used to your second class and like it almost as much as the first one.

The first six weeks seem to be more or less a learning period and the second six weeks you are trained to some degree and you are expected to put into practice the knowledge you have gained from your first six weeks of experience.

The teaching profession is like any other profession in that this training period is the most practical part of our course at Normal School.

(One of the speeches given at the Eastern High School of Baltimore City in the enrollment campaign.)

AUDREY DEPPENBROCK, '27.

CLASS NEWS.

On January 6, 1927, we had a meeting and decided to publish a weekly paper. We elected an editor and an assistant. Eugene Costello was selected as the editor, and Jos- eph Costello as the assistant. The editor is in charge of everything that goes on in our paper. The class is going to write poetry, compositions and stories. The class elected four reporters, one to write the class news, one to write the school news, and one to collect literature. Edwin Geigan was elected reporter to write the class news; Rohert Harner was elected to collect literature; Helen Bennet and Virginia Zink were elected to collect the school news. After the reporters have collected one week's literature, it goes in the Weekly Reporter. Mr. Sollins has planned to have the class literature printed and put into a separate book. The class has decided to call this book "The Weekly Reporter."

The Editorial Of This Week:

As chief editor of The Weekly Re- porter, I welcome all our reporters and thank them for the articles con- tributed to our pages. We pledge ourselves to the best interest of this school news and invite all to make this the snappiest and most instruc- tive of all school papers by assisting our staff. Let us include as much instructive information as possible along with class news. All must show a great interest in our paper and have pride in its growth. We will comment on the worth of all news and expect great competition for the place of reporter-in-chief, which title will be given our best re- porter.

P. E. C.

NOTICE.

If you see anything important in the newspapers that would be inter- esting for our weekly magazine, bring what you found interesting and hand it to one of our reporters.

J. C.

As I look out the window What do I hear?

I hear a band of robins

Flutter overhead. They're going South! They're going South!

O what a sorrow

We shall miss them tomorrow.

O what a sorrow

All the birds are going tomorrow;

O what a sorrow. Lee Wallis.

"Oh sun! O sun! so high in the bright blue sky, '

Why are you so lovely, O sun?" Said the sun to me, "The time is nigh When I must go to light the other side of the sky."

Wilson Cocks.

As I look out the window I see the birds fly high-

They fly in groups of five ---- They fly so high in the sky that

They look like a little eye in the sky. David Weinstein.

On The Beach.

Strolling slowly down the beach On a summer's day

I saw some little children there In the sand at play.

I chanced to spy one little tot

Trying a boat to sail

With string attached he sent her out When suddenly there came a gale.

"My boat, my boat," he loudly cried, Then to the water's edge he ran; A dash. a splash, a long drawn sigh, The boat was saved and laid upon the sand.

Edwina Rose.

TOWER- LIGHT

STATE 1.

APRIL, 1927.

TOWER LIGHT

Vol. 6 --- No. 7

APRIL, 1927

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

TENTATIVE STUDENT COUNCIL are confronted with, or policies in

PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR.

The officers of the Student Council have not had time to formulate new policies, due to our inability to get together, but we do have general principles and duties that should be known to all.

Our first steps in the exercise of

our duties next year will be directed tween student and faculty under the to the incoming Juniors. Under all circumstances, we will do every- thing in our power to make them feel Carroll S. Rankin. welcome and at home. It is our de- sire to acquaint them with the Stu- dent's Association for Cooperative CAMPUS DAY. Government so that they will under_ stand our position and lend us their aid. The needs of such an organiz- ation will be shown them at an early opportunity. We shall explain the origin and growth of the organiza- tion, its aims, standards, and what it should do for the student. It would be well also to bring home to the Juniors the unique value and purpose of a Normal School. Emphasis should be placed at the start on the importance of good scholarship and high standards of conduct.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 144

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