Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 46

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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During the whole day I main- tained a sort of calm reserve that commanded respect, putting down any threatened outbreaks of disor- der. Whenever I think of that calm, reserved attitude I know that it was a day-dream. Anyhow, I am glad I didn't get caught at it.

CHARLES RENN.

HOCKEY NEWS.

Junior V, aren't you proud of the Red Devils, for they won the Inter- section Hockey Tournament with a total score of eight point! Spark Plub, of Junior VI ran true to form, coming in a close second with a score of seven points. For third place three handsome." (That's one reason why teams tied. They are Junior VIII,

Cardinals, Junior IV, All Stars, and |Junior II, Snappy Eleven. Three cheers for the Juniors! When it comes to hockey, they are right there!

Our school hockey team played its first game with Eastern High School. and rang the bell. A short prayer, We were defeated with a score of Lord's prayer, response, and a read- ing, followed by a few announce- ments by the teacher concluded the morning exercises.

4-0. The girls on our team are: forwards, Pauline Hendrickson, Pau- line Arnett, Mary Thomas, Dorothea Hisley and Esther Wolff; half-backs, Gladys Morris (captain), Mary Klein and Caroline Brown ; full-backs, Frances Alexander and Emily Evans; goal, Louise Gibbons. In the near future we expect to play the follow- ing schools: Friends, Parks, West- ern High, Teachers' Training and a return game with Eastern High.

D. HISLEY, Sr. VI.

JOHNNIE AND HIS LASSIE.

Oh, have you heard of Johhnie Brown,

And of his lassie dear,

Who lived in a bright and cheerful town,

Not many miles from here?

Now Johnnie was a sailor lad, And off to sea he went,

Her dad tried hard to change her mind,

And brought her beaus of three.

Though very fine young chaps were they, And wealthy as could be,

Still Johnnie was to her, the best; 'Twas he she wished to see.

Though all was calm and bright one day, That night she heard a sound, From the outside came a caller, It was her Johnnie Brown.

When all was quiet and dad had gone,

He took her in his arms,

He talked of all his days at sea And of her beautiful charms.

As time went on from day to day Their love grew more and more, The preacher made them man and wife,

Which made her daddy sore. ELIZABETH MANWAY, EMILY DENNIS, HELEN BOWEN, NELLIE FRENCH,

HENRIETTA MATTHEWS,

Junior 5.

Which made his lassie very sad, But made her dad content.

had exhausted my stock (limited) of ideas and saved me from being in the embarrassing position of having nothing to do. immediately called .on him for a And many months and days passed by, While Johnnie was at sea,

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THE ORIOLE

A BALLAD OF DECEM- BER 7TH,

(With apologies to Lord Randall) "O, where ha'e ye been, my daugh- ter, so fair?

O where ha'e ye been, my darling, my dear ?"

"1 ha'e been to the Normal School; mother, take me back home; For l'me weary of studying, and fain would stay here."

"O what did ye there ,my daughter so fair?

O what did ye there, my darling, my dear?"

"] learned English and Art, Biol., Math., Music and Science,

O I'm weary of studying, and fain would stay here."

"Why are ye so blue, my daughter so fair?

Why are ye so blue, my darling, my dear?"

"I am sick at heart, mother; take me back home,

For I'm weary of studying, and fain would stay here.

"Oh. ] fear ye have failed! my daughter so fair,

Oh, I fear ye ha'e failed, my darl- ing, my dear."

"Yes, they've dropped me from school, mother; take me back home,

For I'me weary of studying, and fain would stay here." GLADYS E. MELVIN, MARIE OSTENDORFF, Junior 6.

PRACTICE TEACHING, WISE AND OTHERWISE.

7.55 A. M., and sixteen laughing teachers (not yet long enough at their profession to he otherwise) board the Overlea bus. In the midst of the rows of seats is one seat draped in black, marked with the letter "F." as a warning to all those who miss the bus or forget their pitch pipes.

One of the main events of our morning ride is to count an old white horse standing in a stable near Putty Hill. You remember the say- ing, 'Count one hundred white horses and you will shake hands with a handsome young man.' This particular horse is the only white horse we sce and it gets two counts each day.

"As the purpose of education is not to fit pupils for the task of solv- ing problems in future life, we try to give them an idea of our present day problems during their school periods. One day, one of the sixth grade teachers asked her class to give her some problems based on their work in arithmetic. This is one of the problems:

A calf weighed 3 tons. The cow weighed 72 tons, was 90 ft. long and 45 ft. wide, and swallowed a whole barrel of fish at one time.

We sometimes boast of the way our pupils do what we tell them to do. An instance is that of the first grade. They were asked. while passing through a room in which a teacher was having a class, to go like mice. The teacher was startled by the noise she heard and looked up to see the first grade running through the room, making a great racket. When asked "Why the noise?" they replied "Mice run."

Thanksgiving time draws near and all the practice teachers enjoy work- ing up the little feature which hap- pens to be their own Thanksgiving program. Every student has the lip movement, make pupils realize opportunity to say just why he is thankful. This helps to promote self-satisfaction, good citizenship and many other qualities; providing all don't take the same viewpoint as a boy in third grade did. When the request was made by the teacher for all pupils to raise their hands who had something for which they were thankful, his hands remained close hy his sides.

be thankful for?" asked the teacher. by the best school all over the coun-

"No," gruffly replied the hoy. "He pretty near ruined me."

In spite of the many trials of practice teaching, I'm sure there

isn't a practice teacher who be just a little bit sorry when the over. term is We feel that we have learned many of the laws of science, and now that we have made this discovery it is up to us to enforce them? That we really mean this is shown in one of the lesson plans for a fifth grade nature study.

Teachers Aim: To show the value of feathers on birds.

LORETTA SCHWARTZ, Sr. I.

EVALUATION OF HORN SHIELD FLASH CARDS.

The Horn-Shield flash cards are of inestimable value to the teacher The pupil looked rather disap- and to her class. As one student pointed to receive as his criticism,; said in giving his report "It is a "That's all right, but I see a mis- take in English.

thorough system scientifically worked out to give all the aid possible and meet all the requirements of the elementary grades. It is all there. all the teacher has to do is to give out the work as instructed in the teacher's manual and supervise the work." The continued use of the flash cards will decrease the ner- vous tension of the teacher and pu- pils when standard tests and espec- ially speed tests are given. The greatest values of the flash cards are that they teach the pupil to read for thought, increase the speed of reading, improve the eye movements (training the pupil to read by phrases), decrease the tendency for the importance of reading for thought, bring results in so short a time that the pupil can see that he is improving. The pupil's interest is heightened by the competitive ele- ments of the system, and last but not least, by far, it aids the teacher in detecting pupils' difficulties. The best proof of the success of the oash card system is that it is being used

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THE ORIOLE

OUR LIBRARY.

"What a place is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers were reposing here. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I would sooner dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage."-Charles Lamb. We have such a splendid library and I am sure we all appreciate it. even though we do not always show our feeling!

The old adage, "You never miss the water till the well runs dry," is is quite true and fits in very well with relation to the use of our li- brary in the evening. It is very convenient and gratifying when one is piled up with work and has neg- lected to get a hook ont in the af- ternoon, either from lack of time or memory, to know that in the even- ing, one still has the opportunity to 'make good' his or her reports for the morrow.

Let us deserve this opportunity again.

The following is a list, for the past month, of the books that are new to our shelves: Dickinson, T. H .- Chief Contemporary Dramatists; Churchill, Winston-Richard Car- vel; Lewis, Sinclair-Bahbit; Quick, Herbert-Hawkeye; Lane, E. M .- Nancy Stair; Barrie, J. M .- Senti- mental Tommy; Harrison, H. S .- Tweed; Galsworth, John-Forsythe Saga; Pyle, Howard-Men Of Iron; Hawthorne, Nathaniel-Scarlet Let- ter; Singmaster, Elsie-Emmeline; Kipling, Rudyard-Puck of Pook's Hill; Arnim, Mary Annette-En- chanted April; Jackson, Helen- Ramona; Davis, R. H .- Princess Aline; Doyle, A. C .- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Page, T. N .- Red Rock; Cobb, I. S .- Old Judge Priest; Gras, Felix-Reds of The Midi;

Orczy, Baroness-Scarlet Pimpernel; Wells, H. G .- History of Mr. Polly; Haggard, H. R .- King Solomon's Mines; Farnol, Jeffery-Amateur Gentlemen; Mobnar, Franz-Silion; Churchill, Winston-Crossing.

EVA K. MCCAULEY, Sr. VI.

EVALUATION OF PHONICS IN THE FIRST THREE GRADES.

Phonics is beginning to be taught to every child in every school. Did you ever stop to think why it is? Let us first consider what phonics is. It is the teaching of sounds of let- ters rather than the letters them- selves. This is done because. the sounding of the letter and not the saying of the name of a letter will fix it in the mind of the child more rapidly and more accurately. In fact, if the child learns thoroughly how to attack the sound of words | ditorium.

he can easily attack new words he- LIFE IN THE DORMITORY. cause he will recognize the letters by their sound. In some cases the child seems to be able to sound only the beginning of words. The teach- er, to correct this, must show the The bell has rung, but it's scarcely dawn. child that all the letters in a word depend on one another and in order "I'm too tired to get up," you moan in distress, to say the word correctly he must "Since I've bobhed my hair, it takes no time to dress, also sound the letters at the end of the word. When the child is able So I think I've time for another snooze." to grasp words in this way his ear becomes trained and his speed in reading is increased. He will listen And again, yourself in slumber you lose. carefully for what the teacher says and will get it unless he has defec- tive ears. The teacher should be The next you hear is the breakfast gong, careful that she places her tongue and lips properly so that she will You wish the night were ten times as long. give correct sounds for the letters. If she does not give these correctly Then spring from your bed with a bound and a shiver- the pupils may form the habit of saying them wrong and then they | Radiator's as cold as an ice-covered will not be helped in any way by river. phonics.

MARIE GETTINGS.

THE NEW PREACHER.

To church we went on Sunday morn, The preacher new was he, And all the town was on live wires The preacher for to see.

The preacher up the aisle did march, The platform did asceend,

He pulled his collar, fixed his tie, And to his wig attend.

He plunged into the sermon great, Jumped up and down did he,

Till Brother Brown, while fast asleep,

Gave a snoring te-e-e-e.

The preached looked up very quick, He frowned and bent his head;

"Will Brother Brown in prayer

lead ?"

But not a word was said.

A neighbor sitting at his side, Awoke him with a stir,

And Brother Brown jumped up and said : "It's not my play, preacher." HELEN CATLETT, Jr. 6

EVERYBODY WILL CAROL CAROLS!

Following a custom inauguarated last year, the residents of Towson and vicinity are most cordially in- vited to meet with the Maryland State Normal School, at a Communi- ty Tree, in front of Miss Tall's resi- dence, on December 20, at 8 o'clock, for an hour's carol singing. Come early, ready to sing your songs of Peace and Good Will! Make this a Red Letter Evening for us all! In case of inclement weather, we shall gather at the same hour in the au-

You wake with a sigh and a drowsy yawn,

At the hath room you find a long line ahead,

For you aren't the only one who loves a warm bed.

A prolonged wait and a hasty splash;

Then back to your room you wildly dash.

Your clothes are all twisted and scattered about,

For you had undressed after lights were out. At last you are ready-but, oh! un- kind fate!

You arrive at the dining room one minute too late.

You were nearly starved, you have nothing to munch,

But a half of an apple, 'till it's time for lunch.

You wend your way to the bulletin board;

The news there staggers you like a sword,

For the very lesson you hadn't pre- pared

Stands head of the list on your new schedule card.

You are tempted to skip, but recall with a wail,

That one more absence will cause you to fail.

So you face it bravely-that tor- turing hour,

And the relief, when it's over, is like sun after shower.

Such is a sample of Normal School life-

More trials than a man without a wife. BESSIE ARTERBURN, Jr. 4.

HIS LAST MATCH.

From the laconic United Press: Mr. Davis, Cedar Rapids, Ia., pass- ing through this city last night lit a match to see if his gas tank was empty. It was not. Age 47. Cedar Rapids papers please copy.

THE ORIOLE

A NORMAL HOMECOMING.

Just now I remember, 'twas in No- vember,

(And it actually did come to pass) I head some humming about a home- coming Of the dear old '23 class.

A neat invitation-then straight to the station

I hurried at speed-limit pace.

For I had half a hunch that the whole bloomin' bunch Were as eager as I to break trace.

We met in the hall and that wasn't all,

We bumped several times on the stairs;

Time was short for greeting, so we once more.

flocked for a meeting

And dis-cussed our own school af- fairs,

Quite a

few quakings

followed handshakings,

And topics of all sorts arose.

"Did you see all that seatwork? But here's Emma Neikirk,"

And the walls still our laughter echoes.

We needed no song to help luncheon along,

Tho' we sang and we joked as we ate, And we each took our tray in the same old way,

Then rushed to the Hockey home plate.

Many frolics were planned and they all worked out grand,

And it all scooted by 'most too fast.

Every one was entranced with the dandiest dance,

But the very best things never last.

1 had a fine time, so here endeth my rhyme

And the visit has helped me, by heck! Now I work at my task with my reasons unmasked,

And I think I am earning my check. HAZEL WRIGHT, Class of '23.

HOMECOMERS' LETTERS.

My dear Miss Tall:

Just a word to tell you what a happy time 1 had at Normal. Each minute seemed to hold a bit more He appeared in the Assembly Hall joy. The only thought that chilled not so long ago and gave a lecture on a certain phase of "Egyptian Art."

my spirits was that of having but a short time to stay.

If every girl who returned gained as much inspiration as I did, you may be sure that more work is be- ing accomplished in our schools this week than ever before. There seems to he something in the very air that

makes a body want to do his hest. Every good wish for a ha- py and successful year.

Dear Miss Tall:

I want to tell you how very rich 1 enjoyed the "Home-Coming" i en to the dear old Class of '23. IL is wonderful to feel that you are a wee part of such a fine institution as dear old Normal.

I was quite happy to get back home once more with my friends of the faculty and it was simply 'great' to see so many of my class-mates | and to know that they had problems so very much like many of my own. The whole spirit of the day was quite fine I felt, and I thought that everyone seemed so glad to be back

I am delighted to see that the enrollment continues to increase and I hope that the Class of '24 will find as much pleasure in coming back again as we people of '23 found in being there Saturday.

How good it felt to lead another yell with the same people to help me-and I had been longing to hear the dear old Class song once more. I regret that I could not attend the meeting in the morning, but I had the girls tell me what it was all about and 1 find that we all are facing like situations.

Miss Tall, I wish that we could have more Home-Comings, and I feel that a similar meeting in the Spring might prove of real value to the Class of '23, I'd love to come again.

It is my sincere hope that this year will prove to be the brightest and best for my dear Alma Mater, and I'm so proud to feel that I be- long there. If at any time there is any service I can render you or the school let me know, for-

is still eager to do her "little bit."

Very best wishes for the future and fond memories of the past.

OUR ASTOUNDING ORATOR.

Junior 6 has given to the world a wonderful orator, who, some day will be one of the world's greatest advisers. He has given several lec- tures to the boys on "Professor Wing Wang," and "Down in Aber- (leen."

Every one present, we believe, en- joyed himself, and, although this was his first appearance on the sentence that he presented to the stage, we hope to see him again in class: "The dog trickled down the the near future.

JR. 6 REPORTER.

Six lit. al One toc Jke

Five litti iors, al. snore,

One got Ca ght, then there were four.

| Four little Juniors, cheerful as can be,

One saw her report card, then there three.

Three little Juniors, didn't know what to do,

One "sassed" a Senior, there there were two.

Two little Juniors, having lots of fun,

One got spanked. then there was one.

One little Junior loafing in the hall, Got sent home and that was all.

MARY GAVER, Sr. 4.

MY DAD.

There lives a man at Liberty, Aud a wonderful man is he, A mason good he is by trade, No better could there be.

At evening when he comes from work, He greets me with a smile,

And from his duties he never shirks, Which makes his life worth while.

His heart is made of purest gold, I love him more each day,

To me he never will grow old, Although his hair is gray.

A friend from whom I'll never part, For he's the best I've had,

I love him with my soul and heart, Because he is my Dad. MARY ETZLER, Jr. 5.

Old Maid Hansen was telling her family about an adventure. "Yester- day, on my way home I had to pass a dark street. Suddenly a man came out before me. Oh, how I ran."

The 16 year old-Did you catch him?"

A teacher asked a little boy to find the meaning of the words-an- ecdote and trickle, and put them in a sentence. The boy consulted the dictionary and found that an anec- dote was a short tale, and trickle meant to move slowly. This is the

street with a tin can tied to his anecdote."

STATE - AT TOWSON BALTIMORE , MANTLAND

"A good archer is not known by his arrows, but by his aim."

THE ORIOLE

At least once a day read a little poetry, sing a song or look at a picture.

Vol. 3-No. 5

JANUARY, 1924

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

OUR VICTORIOUS SOCCER SQUAD.

SOCIAL VALUE OF GAMES.

Millard Garman.

The time has arrived when the value of games is self-evident. In times past, games were supposed to be of value to the body only, to in- créase the physical power and stam- ina of the individual, which is a reason sufficient unto itself to justi- fy them as a factor in improving life. No connection whatever could be seen between the activity af- forded in games, and the subsequent value to society. The people failed to see how games aided the mental development of a person, how they functioned as character builders, which, if directed in the proper man- ner, would ultimately end in the making of better citizens. In other words, the social value of games was lost to them.

Now, however, the significance of games as an important factor in de- veloping those interests, character- istics and capacities that tend to improve society and make for bet- ter citienship, is clearly and com- prehensively seen. That it is an important and vital agent in life has been proved to us by the ancients.

Greece reigned supreme for many years; during which she made num- erous valuable contributions to civi- lizaation, contributions that are he- ing put in practical application at the present time. Without a doubt,

afactor that placed her in this com- manding position as mistress of the world was the fact that she believed absolutely in the value of games and competitive sports, as shown by the Olympic games. She considered these games so important, so essen- tial to her national life, that even in the most desperate wars-wars that threatened her very existence' as a nation-when the time for the Olympic came during such a situa- tion, she would cal la truce and hold ! these games.

Then, there is Rome. What a mighty power she was and what a tremendous influence she exerted upon the world then, and now. Ro- man laws, form of government, and other minor contributions have car- ried over to the present time. And here, also, her love of sports and games was an important element in her conquering and holding the world under her control for hun- dreds of years. Roman youths spend hours every day in sport-throwing the javelin, handling the sword and improving his general physical con -!

What does it profit a man to de- dition and acquiring proficiency in velop his mind at the expense of his

hody? Of course, the superiority of the mind over the hody is known and can be accomplished to a cer- tain specific limit, but the fact re- mains that the mind can function to a greater degree of efficiency if the body is in a condition to perform its regular duties in a satisfactory man-

society are three fold. They are physical, mental and character

building.

Many parents say that the child receives sufficient physical activity in performing his various chores. But "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." The difference a between work and play lies in its Work is physical activity ciety, and likewise prevent others directed toward a useful end, while that would naturally rise out of a play is physical activity for pleasure condition that would extend its en- and recreation. The essence of ergies into some other undesirable pleasure is found in hoth, hut work channel, due to the seeking of some carries responsibility, discharged ob- other avenues for the escape of pent ligation, while play is merely for up energies that would be impossible amusement and pleasure.

However, there is a more signifi- cant difference. Play involves indi- participate in a certain amount of vidual and group contests not found physical activity to be able to really in work. Contests arouse combative enjoy life. By not doing this, he instincts vital to physical develop- ment. These emotions contribute certain bodily secretions resulting in physical stamina which work can- not supply.

Another advantage of play over work is that contests enlarge the (Continued on Page 2)

weapons, so as to be able to defend his country or carry on new con- quests. Of course, the motives o fthe Romans differed from ours in that they did this solely from a military standpoint. But that was her idea of a good citizen, and we all know how zealous, how passionate, how com- plete was a Roman's love for Rome. ner.

So we see, that in both of these Now, the question arises, how do games make for better citizenship? The values derived from games that instances, Greece and Rome, games and sports played a great part in their life and in their ability to suh- play an important part in improving ject the then known world to her authority.

Thorndike says that "Education is the production and prevention of changes." The sanctioning and de- veloping of games would produce very desirable changes by the letting out of surplus energy that has heen stored up in the individual fn beneficial manner to him and to so- purpose.

if games were not held. For surely a child must play and an adult must

would lower his own ability and ef- ficiency, and although he may have heen fairly active, he could have ac- complished greater and better things had he obeyed nature's laws.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 46

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