Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 40

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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On Wednesday evening, October 3, we entertained our sister section, Jr. III, on a hike to Stevenson's woods. There were about fifty stu- dents present and two faculty mem- bers, Miss Van Bibber and Mlss Sammis. The truck driver for the school very kindly took the "eats" out and also an advance delegation to prepare "the fatted calf."

Ahout 5.30 the main body arrived, tired and hungry, and after very few preliminaries "fell to." There was a blazing fire to roast the hot dogs and marshmallows. We had apples, potato chips and coffee (?). Two very ambitious young ladies walked about a mile for water for the cof- fee, but when they got back there was no water in the can. They had not reckoned on the bottom of the pail being like a sieve. However, they had exercise, which is always welcome.

When every one had eaten all that was possible, we all gathered around the fire and made the woods ring with songs, old and new.

About 8.30 we hiked back along old York road, gleaming In the moonlight, till old Normal appeared once more to our eyes. It was an evening of pleasure to all.

Miss Carley-Beg pardon, but what is your name?

Lillian Lloyd-There's my signa- ture. Miss Carley-That's what aroused my curlosity.

Consult an Optometrist, the Eyesight our school life, and it can give us untold pleasure.

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THE ORIOLE

JOTTINGS FROM OUR PRIN- CIPAL.

By a Cub Reporter.

Miss Tall had been prepared for my visit, and after greetings were passed on, we got down "to busi- ness."

"Well, well, what shall I say?" asked Miss Tall, after we had both settled ourselves in the large and cheerful office which she occupies.

"Anything, Miss Tall," I replied, as 1 watched a smile play around her lips, and finally burst forth into a happy laugh.

"First of all," she began, "1 want the students here to know that I really and truly am interested in everything that goes on in ours school. If we want to begin where we left off, we'll have to begin with June, won't we?"

"What has this summer done for us?"

And I tried to think what it had done, but just couldn't seem to get anywhere. Miss Tall continued:

"Shall we call the incidents of the summer, 'Summer jottings, or jot- tings of the Summer?' "

So here they are "Jottings of the Summer" just as Miss Tall saw them, and wants us to see them.

"JOTTINGS OF THE SUMMER, 1923."

"We held the regular summer ses- sion this year and at the close, the graduating class had a commence- ment, which was very much their own. Miss Gorsuch led the singing, the Class made a very attractive pic- ture in their simple white dresses. After the Commencement exercises a special supper was given in the grduates' honor at the Dormitory."

Mr. Cook, in his address to the graduating class, which included seventeen irregular seniors of last year's class, said that he thought that the term "Irregular Senior" was a synonym for the "finest type of business person with whom he had ever come in contact." He thinks that any person who has enough business foresight to give up his position in order to broaden and stabilize his education, and thereby gain an increase in his salary, with a first grade certificate, when he takes up his old position, is, in the highest sense, worthy of the title he has so kindly given them.

Miss Tall sailed for Paris, France, on the 9th day of August. Her trip was, in a certain sense, a "flying one." Her ship docked at Havre. and she spent the nine days before tention.

salling for home, in Paris. Among the things which her trip accom- The man who would succeed is plished for her was a sharpening of the man who is never discouraged the impresslons she received from by failures. He turns his failures her first visit, twelve years ago. to good account by studying and

Another thing. Her trip has analyzing them.

made her decide that all her winter reading will be on books of Paris.

Upon her return, on the 6th of September, she was plunged into the work of reopening our school for the fall session.

Another jot of interest which we see every day, is the beginning of the construction work on the Sarah E. Richmond Dormitory. If all goes well, we will see the completion of this building about April the first, of this school year ..

This brings us up to the opening of our school.

"What are your impressions of us?" 1 asked Miss Tall.

"The finest spirit I have ever felt in the four openings since I have been here," was her reply.

She continued, "Organizations are stronger and more perfect, there is little homesickness which I believe is due to strength in the juniors. The seniors have done a wonderful piece of work. Last year's idea of "Each day we begin life over again, mistakes of yesterday, are merely used to point out the path of a new day," has carried itself over into this year's work in a most delightful manner."

"The enrollment among the men is the one thing which stands out most clearly. There has been a steady increase - last year 34, this year 44. I am very proud of our men students, and hope that this in- crease will mean greater things for our school."

Our life here at school goes on every day, each day means a new be- ginning. The mistakes of yesterday only tend to make us more prepared to attack the problems of the new day.

Our Principal has set up high ideals for us. Let us live up to them!

MARY THOMAS, Sr. VI.

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'Tis easy to love your neighbor as yourself if she's pretty enough.

To flirt is attention without in-

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THE ORIOLE

Page 4-Girls' Edition

THE ORIOLE

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

BY THE STUDENTS OF THE MARY- LAND STATE NORMAAL SCHOOL, TOWSON, MD.

Business Manager, SAM'L C. TROUPE Advertising Mgrs. PAUL HOFFMASTER NAOMI HARSH

MARGARET REILLY

Circulation Mgrs. MARY THOMAS LAVINIA MOORE

PRICE: One Dollar For Ten Copies.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1923

WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT IN OUR NEW FACULTY.

EUGENE BISHOP - History and Principles of Education.

Mr. Bishop comes to us from Ne- braska. His first bit of education was gotten in a rural school where he went until he completed the eighth grade. He received his high school and preparatory training ati Hastings College Academy, from which place he entered York Col- lege (Nebraska ) receiving his di- ploma in 1911. He immediately en- tered the field of education, teach- ing first in a high school at Kansas City ( Kansas); then teaching in Ne- braska Military Academy, at Lin- coln. Nebraska. He did some post graduate work at Nebraska Wesley- an University, but business seemed to attract so he left school work for business. However, business bowed to its master -Mars-so Mr. Bishop turned back again to education-and

uniform, helped train Uncle Sam's Sammies. After the war he could not return to the old life of busi- ness, so he entered Columbia Uni- versity in February, 1921, for work on his Ph. D. He majored in Edu- cational Sociology, and expects to take his examination for this degree this winter.

Mr. Bishop is married and has three children. lle said concerning us: "I like Normal very much. One notices particularly the physical en- vironment-for it is lovely. They say that in the West the people are more congenial, more co-operative than in the East. These people here however, seem to be a direct con- tradiction."

ALLAN HULSIZER, A. M .- Rural Life Course, Director of Practice in Rural Schools.

Mr. Hulsizer, unlike many of our faculty, comes from a neighboring State, New Jersey. Ile was born in Flemington, N. J., where he attend- ed elementary and high schools. He prepared for Harvard at Maryville in 1917. She received her Master's College, near Knoxville, Tenn. . He Degree from Columbia in 19.23. She

¡entered Harvard, where he majored [ taught three years in Mt. Vernon High School (Mt. Vernon), Wash- ington, and two years in Alabama State College for Women, where she was head of the department of Household Economics. in rural economics and agriculture. Between his freshman and sopho- more years he taught three years, and between his junior and senior years, he experimented one and a half years in war service. While in "Although the work is of a dif- ferent sort from any that } have ever done, } know that I'm going to like M. S. N. S. very much, indeed." MISS HARTMAN .- English. college he taught Americanization classes in Cambridge. After the conclusion of his college course he spent one year on a ranch in Can- ada. He then began to teach again -spending one year in a rural school, and one year as principal of a consolidated school. He then entered

Columbia University for work on his Normal School and after finishing 'Master's Degree. During his work at Columbia, he was director of ex- tra curricula activities in the Junior High School division of Peekskill Military Academy. He received his Master's Degree from Columbia last June.

Mr. Hulsizer is, as yet, unmarried. He too, gives us favorable criticism when he says: "I like Normal very much and I'm quite crazy about Maryland, for it is such beautiful country."

EDNA E. MCEACHERN .- A. M.

Miss McEachern is a far West- erner, for she comes from the State of Washington. She attended high school in her home town, Lowe, and graduated from Whitman Col- lege (in Washington) and did some work at the University of Washing- ton (Seattle). She received her M. A. degree from Columbia University. Since then she has supervised music in the West, and led community a singing in settlement in the

Bronx.

This

past

summer

she

taught in summer school at William and Mary's College (Virginia).

She says concerning Normal: "I think the school spirit here is splen did. I'm in love with it already. There's a lovely crowd of progres- sive boys and girls."

SADIE FITZGERALD. A. M.

Training Teacher. Normal Ele- mentary, Fourth Grade.

Miss Fitzgerald was born in Col- lingswood. New Jersey, where she attended high school. She graduat- ed from New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, after which she taught in New Jersey for five years. She received her B. S. and a diploma for elementary supervision from Co- lumbia in 1922, and her M. A. from Columbia in 1923.

She taught In the Model School in the University of West Virginia in 1922, and the New York State Normal Demonstration in 1921. MISS JONES .- Home Economics.

Miss Jones is also a "foreigner," for she comes from Spokane, Wash- Ington. She went to high school in Mt. Vernon, Washington, and grad- uated from the University of Wash- ington, receiving her B. S. degrees

Miss Hartman was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., where she attended public and high school. After high school, she entered the Philadelphia her work there, she entered and graduated from Bryn Mawr College, receiving her A. B. She taught Eng- lish first in the Baldwin School, then in the Velton School (N. Y.) She was assistant director at the Winsor School, Boston. She then had a small school for younger children at Merion, Pa. She has served on sev- eral boards, doing research work for the Bureau of Educational Experi- ments in New York; being a mem- ber of Academic Committee of Bryn Mawr College, and being examiner in English for the Experiment Board of Head-Mistresses Association. She has studied at Columbia University. lacking hut four points toward her Master's degree.

Miss Hartman has written two books, "The Child and His School", and "Home and Community Life." She is now at work on another, which will probably be forthcoming this summer.

She said: "I have simply been amazed at the kind of work done here, and the remarkable school spirit of the students. I was great- ly impressed by the one minute speeches of the other afternoon." MISS SPERRY-Social Director of Newell Hall.

Miss Sperry attended school jat Northfield Seminary, then attended Teachers' College, Columbia, from where she graduated. She has been director of the Boarding Depart- ment of Berea College, Berea, Ken- tucky.

Miss Sperry has told us several times in intimate talks just what she thinks of Normal. We have yet never been able to show our admir- ation for her. So, come on! Let's give her a rising vote! Thank you. DR. BURDICK-Resident Physician.

Dr. Burdick was born in New- port, R. I., but became a Marylander by moving to Baltimore at the age of fourteen. She graduated from Western High School, and Mt. Holyoke College. She entered Johns Hopkins and graduated from the medical department. She dld her interning in New York Infirmary for Women and Children, East. Eide, New York City. She tells us;

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THE ORIOLE

OUR STORE.

Direct to the basement, Says a sign on the door. Will take you straight to The Normal School Store.

And there, back of the counter Smiling, dainty and small, Stands the storekeeper, Miss Cora Tall.

At one glance the buyer Sees much that he wants, But, oh! lack of money, nis memory haunts.

Candy, cakes, peanuts, Your hunger satisfies; Ink, pencils and paints, For Miss Snyder, you buy.

The bloomers and middies, For Gym you can use. And then you can purchase Some white tennis shoes.

Of course, you write home To your folks some time, And we sell postal cards Ten for a dime.

When pictures you paste, Or letters you write, If you come to our store, We can fix you up right.

So here goes a cheer For the "Convenient Store" We have told you some, Put please learn more.

Hip, hurrah! Sis, boom, ah! Normal School Store, Rah! Rah! Rah! ALINE MITCHELL, Sr. VI.

A GEOGRAPHY CLASS REVERIE.

bungalow-just alive with romance -to my enchanted eyes. 1 see just below a farmhouse nestling down in a hollow surrounded by well-planned and symmetrical fields. 1 have a glimpse of a railroad track which might carry one right into "Win- dowland."

1 can hear through my open win- dow, the merry laughter of children at play, the cheery chirp of crickets, the busy hum of the mower and the shrill whistle of the train. (I can near-as in a distance-more about Japanese earthquakes and their causes. )

I can even get a whiff of the in- vigorating "hill air" and my hair is blown in my face by the fall breeze. Oh, the loveliness of my "Win- dowland!" I wonder if I can find it -ever-and if I should find it-1 wonder if it will be true, and yet- realities are so far and so different from mental pictures.

ESTHER McDOWELL, Sr. 6.

He has achieved success who has |lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect jof intelligent men, and the love of little children; who has left the world better than he found it, wheth- er by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration ; whose memory a benediction.

Life is short, avoid causing yawns.

My idea of the intellectual per- son is one whose mind is alive to ideas; who is interested in politics, religion, science, history, literature; ho knows enough to wish to know more, and to listen if he cannot talk .- a person who is not at the mercy of a new book, leading article,

The world is full of willing peo-

Motorists can be divided into two

by a mention of Japan's coast line -and every time ] look from this window, I am thrilled by the beauty of you always play against the same which I see beyond me. antagonist, and you know every

I see hills on all sides, hills, won- stroke and counter-stroke.

derful hills, which are covered with trees that have not as yet been robbed of their summer dress. see far away on one of those glorious hills, a palatial mansion, while on

It is really the errors of a man another hill nearby, there is a wee that make him lovable.

WHY WILLIE PEAR HAS A FUNNY SHAPE.

Once there was a little red apple. This little apple lived next door to a little yellow pear.

The little red apple was named Jack Apple. Now Jack Apple and Willie Pear were great friends.

' hey walked together and talked together.

They went to the circus together. They went to the seashore to-

gether.

One day in the summer Jack Ap- ple and Willie Pear decided to go to the seashore.

"We will go in bathing," said Jack Apple. "That will be fun," said Willie Pear. So off they went.

When they got to the seashore, they put on their bathing suits. Jack Apple had a yellow bathing suit with green stripes.

Willie Pear had a red bathing suit with yellow stripes.

Then they ran down to the water. Thev jumped in and ran all

around.

They were having a fine time.

"Help!" cried Jack Apple, "I'm sinking."

"I will save you," shouted Willie Pear.

He rushed into the water, but a big wave had taken Jack Apple far away.

Tt. was a bad wave that had taken Jack Apple away.

It never brought Jack Apple home again.

Willie Pear was so sad that he sat down and cried.

He cried and cried and cried.

He cried so long that his heart began to melt.

Tt ran down in his shoes.

He grew larger at the bottom and smaller at the top.

Humor is the antiseptic of life.

Do you mean to say you shave vourself all the time? asked the barber. Well, hardly, said the customer. I stop occasionally for meals!

Give your tongue more holidays than your head.

The man who can't make a mis- take, can't make anything.

What is a great cathedral but the religious emotion expressed in stone.

Why, yes indeed, we fully ( ?) un- derstand the causes of earthquakes; we more than comprehend the situa- or the chatter of an irresponsible Ever since then Willie Pear's peo- tion in Japan; we can tell you the outsider-a person who is not in- ple have always been larger at the number of miles between the North- sular, narrow minded, or contemp- bottom than at the top. ernmost and Southernmost parts of tuous. ALINE MITCHELL. Japan.

Oh, dear! Why can't we study the geography of the "window- ple; some willing to work and the lands" instead of studying the Japan rest willing to let them.

situation. Why, I'm not caring-I mean-my emotions are not stirred; my aesthetic sense is not awakened classes, the quick and the dead.

The game of love is monotonous

To add a Library to a house is to I give that house a soul.

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THE ORIOLE

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOURS? telling, and bobbing for apples and

Hurlock, Md., Oct. 15, 1923.

"The Oriole,"

M. S. N. S.,

Towson, Ald.

Dear Little Bird:

Enclosed, please find a dollar, for which pay I hope you will fly to me ' his year. Very sincerely,

ETHEL BRINSFIELD.

PRINCE JACK O' LANTERN.

One Hallowe'en, Thomas and Thomas' big sister, Dorthea, were lig'iting candles in many, many Jack o' Lanterns, all around the big din- ing-room. Dorothea was going to have a Hallowe'en party and all the So Thomas felt quite at home

long afternoon, she and Jacky had alone there in the half darkness. He been hollowing out big cucumbers sat down on the stool and began to and pumpkins, and cutting funny look into the eyes of Prince Jack o' "Oh, I want to see them, if you eyes and noses and mouths and ears. Lantern, when something queer hap-|will promise to take me back home They fastened candle holders and pened.

candles inside, and now were light- ing +hem.

Then the clock struck eight, everything was ready for the party and a troop of boys and girls began to arrive. In one corner of the din- ing room in a tent made of an In- dian blanket sat a gypsy girl telling

So they went away in three hops. fortunes; in another corner was a In the first hop they were in the large tub of water with red Baldwin middle of the alley back of the apples, bobbing about, waiting for some one to pull them out with a careful bite. house, with a black cat perching on the fence watching them with her great yellow eyes and a big full Soon the fun began, with fortune moon shining down. The second hop landed them outside the town in a narrow little lane, where an owl THE STEBBINS-ANDERSON COAL & LUMBER CO. was calling: "To whit, to whoo." The third hop brought them to a small clearing a mile beyond the

Dealers in Coal, Lumber, Hardware, town, where oak trees grew all Builders' Supplies. around this little grassy knoll, and tangles of honeysuckle screened it

Towson, Md. Riderwood, Md. from the road.

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Aim -- SERVICE Motto -- QUALITY Headquarters for school supplies since 1904.

Agents for Kodaks and Waterman's

Fountain Pens

Towson,

Maryland (10)

Established 1873

A. H. FETTING MANUFACTUR- a dark blue suit, walking up and ING JEWELRY CO.

down the bridge of a big ship. There was a man steering at the wheel, and another in the lookout's nest, and sailors walking around, coiling ropes, and washing down the clean white decks.

And as

Thomas was looking through his spy glass at an ice berg in the distance, the first mate came up and said' "Eight bells, sir."

The little silver bell sound came ringing againfi and whist; There asylum.

Thomas was back again under the hazel bush, with the taste of sassa- tras in his mouth.

Then Prince Jack o' Lantern said: "Drink the dew out of this acorn cup, which is fairy wine, and you may see anyting you want to see."

"Oh, wait a minute," said Thomas, "is it true that there are fairy cir- cles in the woods where the fairy queen rides about with her train, and that if any one steps into that fairy circle he must go away and live with the little people?"

"Yes," said Prince Jack o' Lan- tern, "something like that happens, but it need not worry you so long as you hold fast to my hand. On Hallowe'en, if it is moonlight, not only the fairies march, but there is a real carnival of every kind of lit- le people."

to my mother, afterwards," said

"Very, well," answered Prince Jack o' Lantern, "I promise. Now, he clock on the Court House is just beginning to strike twelve. Drink he dew from this acorn cup."

So Thomas put the acorn cup to his lips and tasted a tiny drop of sweet water, and immediately into the clearing there flocked myriads of little people. There were fairies Jancing about their queen, all sil- very and with shining wings and dia- monds in their hair; there were funny little Brownies turning somer- saults, and pixies scrambling in and 'uit of the brook, and all kinds of funny little dwarfs and elves and gnomes and little men, some in

green caps with red feathers.

They all began to march, singing, around the magic circle, shut in by the oaks. the fairies leading and the others falling into the procession. Suddenly, a bent old witch appeared swinging her broom and pulling. the fail of her black cat till it said "Meow" in time to the music. As she passed the hazel bush, she peered into the depths to see what was hid- ing there, and brought down her broom with a savage whack right on top of poor Prince Jack o' Lan- tern's head.

"O! O!" he cried. Thomas tried to run away, and suddenly he woke up to find that he had gone fast asleep in the tent and kicked over poor Prince Jack o' Lantern.

Everybody was eating ice cream and little cakes, and mother was calling, "Thomas, Thomas! it's time for you to have your ice cream and go to hed."

MARY OSBORN:

"They're off" he cried as he looked at the inmates of the insane

Diamonds

Fine Jewelry

all manner of Hallowe'en games.

Thomas watched these for an hour or two, till all the others began to play "Marching to Jerusalem."

Mother slipped into the living-room to play the piano, and Thomas crept into the empty gypsy's tent. His

eyes felt heavy, but he was quite snre he didn't want to go to bed yet. There was going to be ice cream and little cakes soon.

The tent was lighted only by a big Jack o' Lantern. When they

had been making his zigzag top, Dorothea had said: "This is the best of all-a perfect prince of Jack 'o' Lanterns. I'll put him in the for- tune telling tent."

Prince Jack o' Lantern rose with Thomas.

a hop,' and now he seemed to have a body and hands and funny little legs like a Brownie's. He said: "Come along with me, Thomas. We'll see some fine sights this even- ing."

Prince Jack o' Lantern said to Thomas, "Crouch here under this

hazel bush, out of sight. Take a bite of this magic root of sassafras and make a wish. You may for 30 minutes be anything you want to he."

Thomas took a bite of the sassa- fras, and said: "I want to be a cap- tain of a big ship."

Then, ding, dong, a little silver bell seemed to ring in his ears, and there he was very tall and large, in

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 40

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