Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 20

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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pleted and the children are very proud of them.

Of course, mistakes have been made; funny ones about which we have all laughed. For instance, in Miss Virginia E. Stone's name we have a figure "8" instead of "g". U's appear quite frequently where there should be an "n" and "d's" take the place of "b's". These have only served to sharpen the sense of sight to a better recognition of the different letters.

You will probably be surprised to learn that members of the editorial staff of The Elementary Monthly are a bit superstitious, but such 18 the case. They hold as a token of good luck, as their four-leaf clover, the brief message sent to them by Miss Stone. She has called it "Good Luck to the Elementary Monthly," and it certainly is a means of in- spiration.

Sarah Payne, Sr. I.

Some of the students walking along the road one day saw a guide post that read: "This will take you to Baltimore."

Again the music started and this time it continued until the clock procialmed the hour of eleven, when "Home, Sweet Home" was played and the happy five hundred left the scene of galety, wishing that Hal- lowe'en came more After sitting on the sign for two than once a hours they said, "I wonder when it's gonna start."

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! ___ AT TOWSON DALM. MAL 4, MARYLAND

Live To Your Utmost And Your Best

THE ORIOLE

A Genius Creates, Tal- ent Merely Copies.

Vol. 2-No. 4

DECEMBER, 1922

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

GOV. ALBERT C. RITCHIE'S SPEECH TO THE STUDENTS OF THE MARYLAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,

In introducing the Governor to the student body, Miss Tall remarked that the only preparation we had been able to make was taking stock of conditions in and about Normal School; whether they were such as would please the Governor, and whether they were such as to please ourselves.

Governor Ritchie was greeted en- thusiastically. The group before him were people who admired the sterling characteristics which have so often been seen in the public life of our Governor.

"My friends, I appreciate the op- portunity afforded to address you. You know when I came Into this room a rather familiar sight met me. The manner in which you are arranged makes me feel that we are attending a political convention."

The Governor paid tribute to Miss Mary Risteau, and voiced the opin- ion that the endeavors of Miss Ris- teau represented the type of politi- cal endeavor in which schools should engage. To Miss Risteau, a Balti- more teacher, he attributed the suc- cess of the passage of the Equal Rights Bill.

I think that this very fine student body is a tribute to the public sentI- ment of Maryland; to have better teachers. It gives me pleasure to pay tribute to the splendid loyalty and talent represented in this gath- ering and to Miss Tall for the gra- ciousness for which she is so well known.

I am interested in just what your view point may be with respect to the profession you have elected to follow.

To some, teaching is a means of making a livelihood, just like other. lines of business, but when you men- tion the teaching profession, I would like to think that you regard it not only as a means of earning a liveli- hood, but that you feel toward your profession a love and responsible at- titude and realize the seriousness of your obligation to the State and the citizens of the State."

The Governor expressed the opin- ion that from the teaching force the State realizes a benefit second to none. That heretofore, has not given freely and adequately the necessary support modern edu- cation demands in furthering the op-

A STUDENT'S DREAM GE THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

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facilities, and this phase of State ad- ministration is one of the most im- portant obligations which the State government has to deal with.

Personally, he seemed confident that there would be a more harmon- ious realization of the State's finan- cial obligation as well as the per- sonal obligation. of teachers to the State.

"Some people," the Governor said, "are apt to regard government as a (business organization, the sole pur- pose of which is enforcement of laws, and the thing in which it shows greatest interest is taxes."

"National administration, State administration and City administra- tion, we look on as great business agencies, they have their business aspects, but there is the greatest difference between government and business. Business deals with prop- erty rights, government deals with human rights. In the course of

Maryland, and see that men digging out coal run great danger. You can go into the important railroad work shops and see men stripped naked to the waist, working in boiler rooms. The strength and security of the State is affected by the man- ner in which the work is done, as well as the safety of the men who are doing that kind of work. State government must never let property rights conflict with human rights."

The Governor referred to the many agencies of State government that dealt with problems of human rights. He specially emphasized the Depart- ment of Health. He expressed the opinion that in so far as the State recognized and fulfilled its obliga- tions to the citizens of the State in just so large a measure would the citizens of the State realize and ful- fill their obligations to the State. He said the State can never hope to be stronger than the strength of its citizens.

Governor Ritchie felt that the work of teachers was of paramount importance. The public school was the only absolutely vital factor to the welfare of the State. In order to realize the fullest development of the children of today, who become the citizens of tomorrow, they must be capably taught not only the fun- damentals of education, but there must be inculcated in children ideals of honesty, fairness towards all, and the desire to give one hundred per cent. efficiency in whatever the un- dertaking may be. Of great impor- tance in developing this attitude is the personality of the teacher. Teaching will then not only be a means of livelihood, but it will be- come something sacred. It will be- come a profession.

MABEL A. PIELERT.

THE TEACHER.

(Margaret Weant.)

events business and government The teacher is at all times a being of unlimited influence. She deals more directly with a larger group of very young people than almost any other professional person. She di- come into confilet, and when prop- erty rights which are the basis for business come into conflict with hu- man interests, then the property rights have to give way under the rects in big and little situations; she human rights, so that the basis of leads in times of schoolroom peace government may not be imperiled or and arbitrates in times of childish endangered : for .hampered.

Es- wars; she sympathizes with failure congratulates in success; she

sentially the duty of the govern- or ment is to see that the human rights heartily co-operates in all phases of are protected. You reallze the work. She is the most dominant

the State necessity of this the more you come personality in the life of every child in contact with that class of people who comes within her care. Upon who carry the bulk of the load of her leadership and direction depend human activities and endeavors. You the future happiness and welfare of portunities for proper educationalcan go into the mines of Western the world.

THE ORIOLE

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SOME APPRECIATIONS.

113 E. Washington St., Hagerstown, Md. November 28, 1922.

My dear Miss Tall:

Your kind invitation to visit my beloved Alma Mater on December the ninth, was received today. To my deep regret,; I believe it is al- most impossible for me to be pres- ent on that day, as a very important previous engagement prevents. Nev- ertheless, I shall be with you in spirit, for I know there is a very delightful surprise in store for those of my classmates who can attend. It will be a day like the majority of them at dear "ole" Normal-a day of pleasure as well as enlighten- ment.

received my first copy H just of the "Oriole" today. Really, Miss Tall, words can not express my feel- ing as I read the words of that lit- tle messenger. For about three- quarters of an hour I was trans- ferred from Hagerstown to Normal. Nothing could have brought me back, either. until I had read the last word. The "Oriole" is all right! May every copy bring me as much enjoyment a's this copy and possibly more, if such a thing could really be!

I am teaching in a very desirable school, only two blocks from home. Everything is moving along very nicely. We are planning for a big day tomorrow-our Thanksgiving program. I am simply in love with nearly everyone of my youngsters. All of the girls that I have heard from seem very happy about their schools.

Again, I must tell you how very sorry I am that I can not accept your Invitation to our "home-com ing," if I may so term it. May it be just one "grand and glorious" day for all present! May I also wish you, in closing, a very happy Thanks- giving with "odles" of turkey and pumpkin pie.

Very sincerely yours, MARGUERITE V. STONER.

2909 W. North Ave., Baltimore, Md.

Dear Miss Tall:

First, let me apologize for my de- lay in answering your Invitation, but with the rush of changing one's residence, a holiday, and the end of the month, I find myself wishing that Father Time had made the days just twenty-four hours longer.

I think the home-coming you have planned has brightened up life a hit, for me at least, because I cer- tainly do want to see you and all of last year's class too, so I'll be there on Saturday, December 9, at least for part of the day.

I think our County is having a teacher's meeting on that day, and if so, I'll only he able to make the

evening entertainment, but if not I'll see you all earlier in the day.

I have thirty report cards smiling at me from the other side of my desk so I think I had better attend to them and finish out my line when I see you. Sincerely, MIRIAM A. SHAWN.

Brunswick, Md., November 27, 1922 My dear Miss Tall:

Your much appreciated invitation to the Home Coming for the Class of '22 was just received.

Pleasant memories are still vivid and you may be sure it will afford me great pleasure to attend the Home Coming on the date mentioned. It seems to me that such a day as the one you have planned will cer- tainly be most interesting and pro- fitable for us all.

If the latch string is still in its place you may count me one ready to join in all the pleasures of the day.

Very sincerely, PAULINE CADLE.

Hanover, Md., November 28, 1922.

Miss Lida Lee Tall,

Maryland 'State Normal, My dear Miss Tall:

It is difficult to imagine the feel- ing of joy with which I read your plans for the "Home Coming." It will indeed be a home coming for me and I feel sure that my feeling is' representative of the sentiment of the whole Class of '22.

Unless something unforseen oc- curs, nothing will prevent me from being present at Normal on Decem- ber ninth.

I feel that 'I must express my gratitude for having been graduated - from an institution that not only puts one in a position to graduate, but backs one up after work is be- gun in the field.

Sincerely, DORIS OWENS.

Long Green, Md. November 29, 1922. My dear Miss Tall:

Your letter has just arrived and I am certainly glad to hear of the plans for a Home Coming Day for '22. I makes me feel (and I am sure all of '22 will also) that we are still very intimately and closely connected with Normal regardless of the distance that we may be from her. We will all be ready for the day, I am sure. I am looking for- ward eagerly for the ninth and I hope to be among those present. It will certainly feel good to be back at Normal once more.

Sincerely yours, ETHEL G. CARTER.

THE ORIOLE

A REALISTIC TALE.

Last year I loved to sit on the window-seat in Room 14, and picture my school to be. Always, the pic- ture was the same-a large, red brick building, spacious halls, at- tractive rooms with tables and chairs. Cupboards were most com- plete with piles of colored paper, scissors, crayons and costumes. But my picture has changed. In its place there is a little two-room gray stone school, with an old wooden bel- fry and a rusty bell, which has not been rung for years. The spacious hall is a little boxed in vestibule. The attractive tables and chairs are old, rickety, well cut up desks. Where is my fascinating cupboard? In the front of the room stands a little three by four bookcase and occupy- ing the top shelf is a little "stuck- up" bottle of mucilage. On the next shelf is a spool of brown cord accompanied by four pairs of loose wabbly scissors. In the front, and to the left of my room stands the furnace-an old coal stove, which has to be fed "every hour on the hour."

Last, year I would have said "them days have gone forever." No, here I am teaching in the school in which the lessons were taught to the tune of the hickory stick, and I, under the same conditions must try to teach present day methods. So I will state my first problem or diffi- culty-CARRYING OUT MY PLANS WITH LIMITED MATERIALS.

Frantically I worked for the first three weeks of school, teaching three grades and trying to keep all well occupied and interested. How was I to keep one group busy with seat work while working with two reci- tation periods? While working and gaining with one class the others finished in five minutes my labor- iously planned seat work. At such times, how I longed for Normal! While there, if the earth began to tremble and crumble under my feet, there was always one "Stone" which saved my life, "Miss Virginia E."

After returning home, the process of planning began. From attic to cellar I searched for pictures, ma- terials and ideas. Something differ- ent, something original, was my idea of good seat work. Therefore I worked laboriously and late into the night. I have then a second big problem-LACK OF KNOWLEDGE IN MANAGING MY TIME. Had I had at Normal more experience in planning for a whole day, with a whole grade or grades and with all subjects I feel that I would have been greatly benefited.

In the recitation period there came continually the question of "How Much?" "How much of a subject should be taken in one grade? How

much should be taken in a daily les- son ?" These questions may have been answered in the Baltimore County Course. But how often I had to stop my planning to make a study of my Course. And this

brings me to my third problem- LACK OF THOROUGH ACQUAIN- TANCE WITH THE BALTIMORE COUNTY COURSE.

What was the result of these dif- ficulties? Time was lost while the teacher experimented.

Will the 1923 graduate enter into her work in a more efficient way if she meets these experiences of which I have spoken in her student teach- ing?

MILDRED L. BUCKLEY.

A BRIEF SURVEY OF CURRENT EVENTS.

We often hear people say "What is the use of studying current events, they are so uninteresting, I would rather read a good story." People who say that have never tried very hard to become interested. They pick up a magazine or paper and read for a while with their mind on something else and then expect to get information out of what they are attempting to read. Current events are educational because they seem to be a means to an end in studying history. We appreciate the past more if we can connect it with what is happening at present. The read- ing of current events make us more intelligent and broadminded and give us a new attitude towards other nations. I think that one of the most important values of current events is the fact that we are better fitted for citizenship.

The following are some present day problems which concern all of us and are well worth reading and understanding:

A-International News:

Turko-Grecian War. Settlement of the Allied Debt.

The League of Nations.

Lausanne Conference.

Immigration Restriction.

Business men and Internation- alism.

Fall of Lloyd George Government. Facisti government in Italy.

Irish Freedom. Red Cross Movement.

German Financial Future.

B-National News.

Farm Loans. Prohibition. The Coal Problem. Tariff Act. Impeachment of Attorney General Daugherty.

Soldiers' Bonus Bill. Outcome of the recent election. Ship Subsidy Bill. Chicago Race Riot. Clemenceau's Plea. The Philippine Trouble.

Educational Bill. 1923 Budget. Supreme Court and the Japanese Question.

Forest Fires.

New Constitutional Amendment. Punishment of Crime.

C-Local Affairs: Educational Bill. Maryland School Laws. Street Car Fares. D-General News:

Sculpture by Photography. Battle with the Colorado River. Social Unrest. The Klu Klux Klan.

Socialism. How many of these subjects can you converse upon intelligently? MAE SCHANZ, Sr. 6.

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DECEMBER, 1922.

GREETINGS- "'RICHMOND HALL."

Each month Miss Tall has a spec- ial message for everybody, which she sends in a special way-through the "Oriole." This time she warns you. "Watch the bulletin board in the hall for an entirely new event."

The plans for the new dormitory unit are nearly completed. Soon will appear the photograph for the new building. The blue prints are now on Miss Tall's desk awaiting the criticism of the faculty and dor- mitory directors for the final prints. As soon as copies are received, they will be placed so that all students may see them.

The new unit will be named "Richmond Hall," in honor of Miss Sarah E. Richmond, former princi- pal and teacher. The new hall will match Newell Hall in architecture. It will extend up the hill to the Ad- ministration Building level, joining Newell Hall through the bay window at the South end of the main cor- ridor.

In the new dormitory there will be a large room, a commons or liv- ing room to accommodate two hun- dred students for social, reading or get-together purposes. It will have a large, open fire place in which real logs can be burned. Sleepy-heads, listen! Richmond Hall will have a sleeping porch. There will be sin- gle rooms and many double rooms. The double rooms will hold only two students. The nose of a third one can't be crowded into one of these rooms planned for two. Won't you like that?

Mr. Wilson Smith, of Smith & May, architects, is intelligently seek- ing structural details for comfort and better living. One hundred and twenty-five can be housed in this new building. Where would you suggest they should be drawn from? Towson ? Administration Building? We are looking forward to Christ- mas, 1924, when the bullding is to be finished. Watch the Bulletin board. We think you all will want to live In Richmond Hall.

Shall our slogan be "Seven Hun- dred Students in 1923-1924?" HAZEL WRIGHT.

THE HOME-COMING OF THE CLASS OF 1922.

An old fashioned experience meet- ing was held in the Music Room on December 9 as a part of the pro- gram of the Home Coming of the Class of '22. In this meeting, which was attended by about fifty of last year's Seniors, they talked most frankly of the joys and the sorrows which they had met' during their first year of teaching.

welcome by Miss Lida Lee Tall, which made all the old girls feel just as if they were back home home again, Miss Virginia Stone discussed the changes which had

taken place in the Elementary School, and Mr. John Dunkle fol- lowed with an earnest plea for frank criticisms of the work of the Nor- mal School, criticisms which would help the faculty to meet more ade- quately the needs of the present student body.

the one she was teaching this ses- sion. She urged that the elemen- tary school give more definite and varied places for seat work and that the proper authorities be made to see the importance of providing pa- per, scissors and various other kinds of equipment necessary for a modern school room.

Mr. Dunkle's request for brief re- ports from many of the other girls present met with a most hearty re- sponse, and for nearly an hour one girl after another told how she had met and solved or failed to solve her problems, and how, day by day, she was realizing the help her training at the Normal School had been in making her an efficient worker in her chosen field.

E. TIMBERLAKE.

Little Boy (after an epidemic of chicken pox), rushed down stairs one morning very much excited and said: "Oh, daddy, I must have the chicken pox, I found a feather in the bed."

Doctor: Deep breathing, you un- derstand, destroys germs. .

Patient: But, doctor, how can I force them to breathe deeply?

"Ah, my hoy, I owe a great deal to that woman."

"Is she your mother?" "Oh, no; my landlady."

THE PLACE OF BOOKS AS A MEANS OF EDUCATION.

Books have three purposes, the first of which is pleasure. Books develop an imagination, and as we grow older this imagination grows also, and helps us live through the story with its characters. It is our aim as teachers to develop this imagination with children and give to them the gift which we ourselves enjoy. The reading of good books

After a most cordial address of is one of the best ways to spend lei- sure time. Children read the books that are primarily of interest. It is our aim to develop this interest along the right path, so as to make of it an asset where in some cases it might have been a hindrance.

A second purpose is enlighten- ment. First, hooks are read as sub- ject matter. They give the child a hroader view of what children in all lands have been Books

doing. broaden the minds of children and make them able to grasp the ideas included within the page. "Our

The first speaker, Miss Evelyn Peacock, known and loved as Presi- dent of the Student Council of last democracy rests upon the basis of an intelligent citizenship which requires a reading and thinking people, who inform themselves regarding the year, in a very thoughtful discussion of her problems pleaded for a more varied experience in teaching. Mildred Buckley, like Hamlet of old, asked her audience to look upon this picture and on this, as she painted in vivid colors the school she was Miss civic problems and decide their course after careful consideration of the issue involved." Books help form a contrast between present day activities of people and those of yes- dreaming of before graduation and Iterday, and the preceding centuries.

The third purpose is that of record.

To those who have studied and gone over the libraries of schools, there seems to be a large proportion of dead and unused books of doubt- ful quality. This problem was taken over by the American Library Com- mittee to decide upon books that should be in the Elementary School Library. They judged them as books that would (1) allow for and meet appropriately the child's na- ture and develop instructive inter- ests and good taste.

These books should fit the pres- ent stage of the child's development. To do this there would be special books for each grade. The commis- sion decided upon a minimum sum of money to spend in each school and worked out appropriate lists.

In most all of the States, the town schools have library facilities, but few of the rural schools have. New England has provided for this hand !- cap in this way: the town libraries furnish books to the rural commun- Ities by means of autos fitted up with books. This is a real branch library.

Let us, as teachers, if proper 11- brary facilities have not been includ- ed in our future schools, endeavor to the best of our ability to bring about a change, and give to the chil- dren the advantages of being "lovers of good books."

NELLIE COOK, Sr. I.

THE ORIOLE

THE WESTERN SHORE.

There is a land where all is fair, Where fruits and flowers grow, In great profusion, and the air Is pure as driven snow.

There old Cacoctin's rugged steeps by the looks on their faces. Soco- at the summer hotel. Mr. Fauxpas, Stand close to Frederick town; low, is a good-looking man and a who was an onlooker, turned to the stranger by his side and asked: criminal. H. G. Wells is a little man While to the West Antietams creeps

Through verdant meadows down. of wizened countenance, but one of the greatest men of our age.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 20

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