Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 19

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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Invitations were

the beginning of the party the chil- dren were seated on the floor while they sang a Hallowe'en song and listened to a story. Then the chil- dren played games out doors. Soon every one was invited in to have re- freshments. We all had a lovely time at this party. Don't you wish you could have been there?

I suppose you saw the health play given by the lower grades, under the direction of Miss Carey. Miss Carey came to us from a child's health organization, and planned a play with the children, which would initiate an interest in health educa- tion. In the play the children sang songs which told of health rules to he oheved every day. The first grade children cleverly represented little children going to bed early with windows open. The second grade children drank milk and the third grade said they ate oatmeal everyday. The fourth grade repre- sented school children, while the fifth grade represented the vegeta- ble men. The children had very lit- ile work on this play, in fact, only about three ten minute rehearsals. Doesn't it seem interesting that the children gain more £ knowledge of the health rules from this form of play activity than reading facts from books?

on differences in skill, attitudes, ideals and the physical characteris- that? tics of the child. It is the business of the school and the home to lead to a steady growth along all of these For example, the salutation of the flag should become to children a ceremony in honor of some worthy citizen of our country, Another trousers are too tight;

was that all children should know

THE ORIOLE

THE PHENOMENON OF LIGHT.

It seems as though it is the gen- eral tendency for all of us to dis- regard the common, every day es- sentials that lie about us so abun- dantly. Among these is light.

Did you ever stop to think how wonderfully all-powerful it is? you have not, then let me tell you something of its properties.

Light passes at an incredibly high rate of speed, about one hundred and eighty six thousand, three hun- dred and thirty seven miles per sec- ond. This speed seems so great that one would naturally think light would penetrate to any distance in practically no time. However, as an example of the immensity of our uni-

verse, let me cite you the star Polaris, which is so far away that it takes more than forty-two years for its light to reach us. Light travels about five trillion, eight hun- dred eighty billion, two hundred twenty-two million, eight hundred twenty-eight thousand, seven hun- dred and fifty six miles in the period of a year. Remember that it would take an automobile about forty bil- lion, eight hundred and three mil- lion, four hundred eleven thousand, six hundred eighty six days to make such a trip. Compare this to a transcontinental tour and think how lonely Polaris, two hundred forty- nine trillion, six hundred fifteen billion, four hundred fifty-nine mil- lion, eighty thousand, seven hundred and nineteen miles away in the heavens. It may emphasize the greatness of these figures if I add that it would take an average per- son over two hundred twelve mil- lion, six hundred thirty-six thousand, three hundred and six days, to count that far.

Most of us understand the phe-

of an object is every color but the color which we see, but few of ils have ever realized that there are col- ors which we cannot see. Reds, so red that they are hot, and blues so blue that they are germicidical, are strangers to most of us, yet it is known that such colors exist.

prived of that thing.

Consider a lightless earth, no beautiful colors, no warm sunshine, no vegetation, no air, no beautiful sunsets, no anything. Never ending nights, nights hundreds of times blacker than any we know, frozen atmosphere, frozen oceans, the con- tinents barren walls of frigid sand, intense cold everywhere, cold so If great that even alcohol would be- come a taffy, would characterize this world of ours.

Suppose tonight the sun would be extinguished !

Charles Renn.

BALTIMORE AS IT IS AND WAS.

To Senior III fell the honor of giving the geography discussion dur- ing assembly, and well did they merit it.

The subject, "The City Of Balti- more," was treated from the stand- point of industry, commerce, site, zone, beauty and growth.

The site of Baltimore, with its ad- vantages and disadvantages, was presented by Lolita Gillespie.

The present site grew out of two distinct former sites, Bush River in Harford County and Joppa. The City enjoys the advantage of a good harbor, easily dredged hecause of a loose sandy soil, and miles of water- front along the Patapsco. Extension of the City is difficult by reason of the surrounding hills, waterways and marshes.

Hazel Wright told of commercial Baltimore, with its numerous rail- roads draining the winter wheat belt, and having direct connection with New York. Baltimore owes its commercial start to tobacco. It is now the gateway to the wheat and cotton belts; a market for the coal of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Western Maryland, and the iron ore from the Lake Region.

The earth is about twenty-five thousand miles in circumference. If a man and light were to have a race the light would circle the earth one hundred and fifty times before the runner had traveled one hundred yards. If the man were handed a hot-dog sandwich every time that the light passed, the man would have to lay off for a three hour lunch period in order to eat them. Light in 1788, the largest copper refining moves pretty lively after all, doesn't it?

The zoning of Baltimore was il- nomenon of color, and that a color lustrated by Olive Caulk.

Of Baltimore, the beautiful, An- nette Twilly told us in her vivid de- scription of the residential section and parks; and of a plan for a park system connected by a boulevard such as one sees in Paris.

Ethel Brinsfield spoke of the rapid growth in population.

Much about historical Baltimore :

It seems as though we don't ap -; preciate a thing until we are de- was learned from the speech of Sid- world until ney Nyberg, who honored us at Mon- ! up."

day's Assembly. Among other things, he said that, in 1820, Balti- more was the metropolis of the na- tion, and had an enormous trade with China and Japan.

During the CivilWar the position of Baltimore could be likened to that of Belgium in the World War in that her neutrality was violated by Northern troops, and the "battle of Pratt Street" was fought. Lincoln said the troops could neither fly over Baltimore nor creep under, and hence the "invasion." - Maryland then determined to secede, but was prevented from doing so by the troops under General Butler, who, under cover of night and a violent rain storm, captured the leaders and imprisoned them in Fort Warren, at Boston, till the end of the war. Among the captured was S. Teakle Wallis, who, during his incarcera- tion, wrote many war poems.

H. Birmingham.

2500 B. C.

One may hesitate at and ponder over the truth of the old saying, "There is nothing new under the sun," but we have certainly proved this many times in our Junior His- tory Class.

Let me explain. We have been studying about ancient history, even as far back as three thousand years before Christ. By way of example, the other day, being interested in the subject, we looked up some in- formation concerning the civiliza- tion of the Cretans, a people who lived on the island of Crete, about twenty-five hundred years before Christ, and we were surprised to find that a very high state of civil- ization existed at that time.

They excelled, especially, in ar- chitecture. It was the palace ,of Cnossus that interested us most This palace was almost a town, dec- orated with magnificent pottery. The richest decoration of Cretan

The rapid growth of industrial Baltimore, according to Katherine Betts, is due to its location, direct rooms consisted in elaborate mural lines of communication, proximity to raw material and abundance of labor. Among its 123 different in- dustries may be mentioned, flour mills, as early as 1774, glass works paintings placed between formal borders. In these paintings, pic- tures of ladies, with belt-shaped skirts, with flounces and ruffles, elaborate embroidery, and fancy golden ornaments, contrasted with plant in the United States, canning factories and sugar refineries. the soft, white, simple garments of the men. We can imagine the pic- turesque scenes in the halls of the palaces when the larger lamps were lighted, sending a fitful glare through the columned chambers and lighting up the gayly colored cos- tumes of lords and ladies, listening to sea tales or the adventures of the bull chase.

Miriam Cronhardt.

"Things don't

turn up in this

somebody turns them

THE ORIOLE

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(10)

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Dealer In Fancy and Staple Groceries, Flour And Feed

York Road Towson, Md. (10)

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THE OCCASIONAL SPEECH.

(Before the Pestalozzi Public Speaking Club, Nov. 9, 1922.)

Friends: You must excuse me, as chairman of this meeting, for as- suming first place on the speakers' program for today; but, I consider it a pardonable situation, because of the logical relation of my report to the talks which are to follow.

Let me define first, or limit, if you please, the occasional speech. It is a speech for an occasion, but is opposite in character to a sermon, a lawyer's speech to court or jury, to the speech of a member of a deliber-

of the following types: the personal, which coincides with the personal beginning; the summary; the horta- tory, which expounds the future pos- sibilities of the subject; the quota- tion or allusion, which gives the speaker a height of emotion to which he may fly, whereas alone, he could not approach with his meagre soul's emotion, this rhetorical splendor, and emotional peak to which some fellow-author may carry him.

The essentials of style are brief- ly: clarity, adaptability of speaker, to audience and occasion, and sin- cerity.

The delivery is important because ative assembly, or to the lyceum lec- of the physical effect upon the audi- ture. It is limited and inspired by ence. A well-pitched voice is pleas- the occasion, that is "the speech ex- ing; a good medium, between a low, ists because of the occasion, not the quick, conversational voice, and a occasion because of the speech."

shouting auctioneer's tone, results in

Next, let us justify this speech for a tone loud enough for the audience, the occasion. Many, many types of and a rate slow enough for easy an occasion give rise to the speech comprehension. Natural ,distinct

inspired by that occasion. Among enunciation is essential to the hear- the more common of these are: the er's auditory satisfaction. Gestures, welcome or farewell speech; presen- movements and poise as details of tation or acceptance; giving or re- general posture are important means sponding to toasts, dedications, and by which the audience gains general a speech in behalf of a cause. The impressions.

talks following this will be of this These points are valuable for con- latter type. Many, many types of sideration for those who are begin- people representing many walks of ning to study the art of public speak- life, in fact every educated person ing. They give us needed theoretical may at one time or another be called knowledge, along with our practice. upon for such a speech. And, every If we learn to accept and appreciate educated person should be able to every opportunity for public speak- perform creditably before a moder- ing we will further ourselves by the ate sized audience.

practice method; and if we learn to requirements are usually considered respect to time, place, circumstances For the occasional speaker, these plan a speech for any occasion, with essential; a general education, for a and our own abilities, we will cer- hackground; more or less practice tainly be able and worthy public in the art of speaking, and a knowl- speakers.

Maxwell ' R. Sacra.

IT'S TIME TO BUY YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS.

Watch for new designs in the show case, and make your selection early. All cards, with envelopes, are only 5 cents each. The money goes to- ward the extra $175.00 needed for- the curtains. You see, it's this way: $100.00 a piece was pledged for each curtain, but in order to accept the best bid we had to pay $1,375.00 instead of $1,200.00. Wo want the money you spend for Chirstmas cards and you want our cards, so let's get together.

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Deposits the audience shall carry away. It may be classed in general, under one

For the speech itself these re- quirements must hold the role of minimum essentials: good begin- ning, obvious structure, logical pro- gress, and a satisfying culmination.

The introduction is important be- cause of the value of the first im- pression. If the first impression is good, it may cover much poorly done thereafter. If it is poor, much good may be wasted in reversing the im- pression. Many types of beginnings are employed. Chief among them are these: Personal beginning, which must be happily chosen between the extremes of humility and self- praise; the anecdote, which must be chosen for its easily understood comedy. as well as its hearing upon the theme; the Illustration, made my comparison or allusion; the gen- eral introduction, which compares the usual occasion with the specific one at hand.

The conclusion is likewise impor- tant, because it determines both the attitude and the information which

THE ORIOLE

A RED LETTER DAY AT M. S. N. S.

It was a red letter day at the Normal School when the velour cur- tains for the windows in the Audi- torium were formally presented.

The need for them was felt seri- How large a part did the library play in our life in October? During that month students used the li- brary 10,000 times, and 4,496 books were circulated, a record exceeding that of all previous months. ously last year when an attempt was made to show pictures in the hall, and the Class of '22 responded to this need by leaving as a gift to this school, some money to start a cur- tain fund. To this class and to Miss Greenlaw, the presenta and future students of the State Normal School, owe a great deal, for they started the movement which enabled us to obtain within a year, a very expen- sive, but a much needed piece of equipment. The present senior class agreed to follow, suit, jand broke here for organization and story-tell- away from tradition by giving its ing. Arrangements have been made so as to give the elementary school children opportunity to come here to read and study. The first and second grades have spent some very happy afternoon hours listening to stories told around the open fires. gift to the school when the need was felt, not at the end of the Sen- ior year. The faculty became very much interested in the matter and not wanting to let the students get ahead of them in such a big propo- sition, they too, made a contribution. When the Alumni Association was asked to co-operate, it responded heartily, and Miss Martha Richmond gave a whole curtain in memory of her sister, Miss Sarah E, Richmond, who was, for a time, the principal of this school, and who always gave her ardent support to the institu- tion.

Representatives the various groups spoke in the assembly which was given over to the presentation of the curtains, Miss Robinson speaking for the Class of '22; Miss Lynch for the present Senior class; Miss Richmond for her interest in the matter; Miss Tall for the Fac- ulty, and Dr. Fawcett for the Alumni Association.

Songs and cheers made the pro- gram lively and the spirit exhibited by the student body was sufficient to convince any one that the efforts which were put into this project were fully appreciated by those who are now enjoying the results of those efforts.

ALUMNI IN ST. MARY'S COUNTY.

Janet Duke, Assistant, Two Room School, Clements, Md.

Virginia Fowler, Assistant, Two Room School, Mechanicsville, Md. Harriet Reeder, Assistant, Three Room School, Hollywood, Md.

"Madam, there's a man at the door with a package for you."

"What is it, Bridget?"

"It's fish, mum, an' it's marked C. O. D." "Tell him to take it back, I or- dered trout."

LITERARY NEWS.

As most of us are so busy with the daily routine of Normal that we are prone to overlook things of im- portance in our very midst, it is well to face a few statistics at times.

Aside from the regular work car- ried on in the library, we are in- debted to the librarians for much extra-routine work. Since school first assembled thirty classes in "The Use of the Library" have been con- ducted. The story-teiling group of the Pestalozzi Literary Society meet

Miss Osborn is going to open this field of work to us prospective teach- ers for practice. school classes have been so sched- uled as to afford opportunity for story telling by Normal students. Any volunteers who wish to put into practical use that phase of their Eng- lish course which deals with this subject will find their services glad- ly accepted by Miss Osborn.

C. R.

WE WONDER

If the Juniors know what "School spirit" means?

Why the Seniors have found it im- possible to study history unless they have a "Beard"?

Why we are still dancing to a victrola ?

Why the Juniors aren't making a friend of our Oriole?

Why the Seniors take so much in- terest in Principles of Education ? Why Owen Thomas likes "Rain"? Why lambs are so plentiful at M. Phone, Towson 554.

S. N. S .?

Why Minnie and Donald are al- ways conversing about Red and Green lights?

Why Peggy Owens likes the piece called "The Old Hampstead"?

If the word tag doesn't seem a little over-worked after its strenu- ous week?

Where the Baltimore American gets all its news?

Why Seniors are so musical? Why Menaris France looks so lonesome this year? Why Sr. V appreciates Mr. Quil- len ?

Why the "Pests" are so happy? Betty Worthington.

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THE ORIOLE

IMPRESSIONS CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS.

Margaret Hubbard, Sr. IlI.

"There, the period is up!" "What do we have next?" whispered an anxious Senior to the next. "Physi- cal Education," was the reply. A smile beamed upon each face. Why? Because we like Physical Education. Fun and sport are combined with work in this subject. "We will tell yon about our work," said one of the girls.

This latter part of this term we have been writing schoolroom and playground games for the primary grades. We not only wrote these original games, but we directed them and had the games acted by the pu- pils in our sections. Suggestions and criticisms were made by our classmates. By doing constructive work of this type we receive the benefit of planning our work and of originality.

Another phase of our Physical Education work for this term has been that of reading different arti- cles; for example: "What Teachers Ought To Know About The Physical Growth Of Children."

That teachers should know and recognize the

fact that physical growth is the chief business of child- hood and youth. Growth must pre- cede development. The stunted body will dwarf the mind, and the Incom- pletely grown and developed organ is a seat of weakness.

All the parts of the body do not develop with equal rapidity at the same time. First, the vital organs then grow and develop, the heavy muscles of trunk and legs eome. The sense organe and centers of perception in the brain are at the same time developing fast.

- If three-fourths of a child's time were spent in the open air, he would store up health and vitality of mind and body. A child between the ages of eleven and fourteen should be given as much exercise a8 possible.

Attention to physical health should not be relaxed during the first year in high school. An ex- cellent training in civic virtues is in group games, with their team play and lessons of obedience to disci- pline for the honor of class or school.

An important part of the curricu- lum of our colleges is the indus- trial and economic training. Our boys and girls are emphatically in- tent today on a life which shall in- clude, but go far beyond getting a living.

Church and school are being called upon today to give an account of their stewardship. Men are asking impossible things of religion, tomor- row they will demand the impossi-

ble from the school. Men are throw- ing aside old systems, methods, and habits. They are ready to be led into something higher and better. It is the student or students of child- hood and youth who will lead this forward march.

Two girls looked at their watches. "Goodness, we have talked too long!" "I know," replied the other, "but we forgot to tell about our final paper we have to write."

"Oh," replied the other Senior, "we wil itell them about that later."

HALLOWE'EN AT NORMAL SCHOOL.

Have you ever seen a place where ballet dancers, fairies, clowns, street cleaners, ghosts, witches, and vari- ous other types of beings met for recreation ? Such was our Auditor- ium on the night of October the

thirty-first when the Seniors enter- tained the Juniors and the Faculty with a little mask party.

The hall Itself was sufficient to re- mind any one of Hallowe'en, with- out even a glance at the numerous of almost every subject taught in maskers, for there on the stage was a miniature field of corn and pump- the grade. kins and all about were autumn leaves. Some of the problems that the children have had to solve, have To stand at the door and been difficult. Details of business watch those coming in was an op- management, mechanical problems portunity not to be missed, for there of handling a job printing press, one saw to the best advantage, the problems of accurate measurement, originality and artistic beauty of the all have come up as the paper grew. various costumes. When all had ar- We feel that the November issue, rived and the crowd had passed into the first one, will be a great step the Auditorium, it was a glorious toward the final success of our pro- sight which one looked in upon from ject. Two sheets have been com-

the doors at the head of the hall. The crowd appeared as a moving sea of color, in a bockground of colors just as varied and brilliant.

The first event was a race among the members of the faculty to see which could chew up a string the fastest in order to get a marshmal- low and Mr. Dunkle was the winner. A grand march followed and the judges were set to the difficult task of choosing the best costumes, which they finally accomplished by decid- ing upon Ruth Cole and Marion ¡Ogle, Dancing was next on the pro- gram and now fairies danced with ghosts, street cleaners with ballet dancers and various other strangely matched couples were to be seen on the floor. All of a sudden the danc- ing was called to a halt and the dancers were invited to refresh themselves with things appropriate to the occasion; cider, ginger cakes, pumpkin pie, apples, mints and peanuts.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL- UPPER GRADES.

For the past two months we have been somewhat handicapped in our work because we had to settle down to work all over again after the va- cation. However, the time has come when the majority of smaller details have become habitual and we can put our whole attention upon more important things. With the coming |of November, the upper grades have been able to accomplish work that has really been worth while.

As an especially good example of what has been done we consider the newspaper being published by the Seventh grade a thing worthy of mention. Several of the important principles of modern education have been involved; the idea that we learn to do best by doing and that we work best in a real situation, when a real problem presents itself. The paper was started in connection with composition work, but as it went forward it easily became a part

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 19

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