Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 47

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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SOCIAL VALUE OF GAMES.

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vital organs during stages of growth, promoting deep breathing essential to health. The growing child needs the spur of contest to promote full- sized growth and full developed ca- pacity. The death rate in T. B. is decreasing yearly due to scientific study, while deaths of organic trou- ble are increasing, due to neglect. To meet these ends, the contest in games is superior to work.

Now, the mental values. First, sports develop power of attention and alertness of mind. The player must have his mind on the game, ready to take advantage of the first break of the game. Nothing goes unnoticed. It is valuable in develop- ing alertness in many class room studies.

Gomes develop initiative and abil- ity to originate, to grasp situations, size up conditions, to see what should be done, and to do the right thing at the right time, in the right way. Generally speaking, no person tells a player what to do in your enemy go free. You are now a game. His personality acts with- more anxious to get dry than to car- ry out your revenge. out direction.

Sports cultivate individuality and develop the skill of a player. He is part of the team and while he must co-operate with the team, he is an individual contributor.

The imagination is developed in games. This is especially true of little children. Their play world, through imagination, becomes a real world. The make believe world which his fancy creates is always intensely interesting and real to him.

Quick thinking is also developed by games. The player waits, watches and makes the best of the opportun- ity. To hesitate or misjudge may lose the game for your team. Sure- ly games develop a mind quick to see and act correctly at supreme mo- ments, to find the opposing teams weakness and play on that weak spot, or if there is no weak spot, to figure out the best way to get the opposing team in an awkward posi- tion and so win the game. This re- quires thinking and judging.

Mental development is not the only result of sports and games. Character building is equally if not more important. A sturdy character with a slow thinking mind is to be more desired than an active, alert mind with a mean, sneaking char- acter. For after all, you are judged by your character among your fel- low men, and not by your mental make up.

(To be continued.)

Howard-"Do you dance?" Peggy-"I love to." Howie "Then let's love."

TAKING A BATH IN NEWELL HALL.

This, of course, is something that most of us have experienced, but not always with so much pleasure as it should be. About seven o'clock we pick up our towel and soap and walk very casually down tothe bath- room, looking straight ahead for fear someone may inquire "if you are going down to take a bath." If you succeed in getting there with- out being questioned you of course feel very safe to go in. You lock the door and turn the water on. You then proceed to take your bath be- ing careful to make as little noise as possible. You think you are get-

ting along famously. When you have on your nice clean nightie, your breath seems to be suddenly taken away, by a cold chill running down your back. All of this is the result of a glass of cold water being dashed on you. Of course, you declare re- venge on the guilty person, but by the time the cold air has pierced you like an arrow you are willing to let

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Tomorrow morn I'll sleep 'til one, Another. week of toil is done. -The Normal Trumpet.

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THE ORIOLE

AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK.

We are about to launch our craft into a new sea full of manay dan- gers, perhaps, and full of unseen dif- ficulties. It might be well then to follow the example of our wiser predecessors and take inventory of ourselves and give each virtue its proper appraisal and each vice its deserved scorn. Place each in its position and then resume our jour- ney.

And so as 1924 is ushered in we hesitate for a moment and reflect on the past. It seems that never be- fore in our lives have the prospects for the immediate future looked so promising. Money is plentiful, high- er salaries are being paid and our savings seem to almost double them- selves over night. In the face of such conditions he would be a poor American who did not give thanks for the surrounding conditions and their influence upon him and upon every citizen of his nation.

Then when we consider ourselves, we necessarily involve our relations with our own and foreign countries. The daily papers tell us that 1924 has a hright outlook for rthe U. S. What do we mean by this bright out- look? Why, we mean that a great many impediments here before trip- ping us in our efforts to regain our feet have been removed and we are again treading on a sound basis to- ward prosperity and satisfactory conditions.

And though the background for Europe may look blacker as the New Year approaches, the economic ex- perts tell us that even the darkest phase of the Ruhr situation is im- proving. The outlook for Rus- sia, Armenia, Turkey, Ireland and Austria is much more promising than we could say of it a year ago. To he sure, each has a massive pro- blem to rid itself of hut when we see such advances toward world peace as the League of Nations is propagating, is there not a silver lining to their cloud, and is there not a solution even if remote, to their difficulties ?

Even the disasters of 1923 were not all results of man's inferiority. The great catastrophe experienced by Japan may never repeat itself in his- tory. Earthquakes followed hy fires and tidal waves destroyed the greater portion of Yokahoma and Tokio and the surrounding regions. The lava from Mt. Etna poured forth again upon the lands of sunny Italy and destroyed several towns and their inhabitants. These handicaps inflicted upon us hy nature mar our panorama very greatly, yet in the face of them we fear God and start anew our march to greater progress and more advanced civilization.

1924 is upon us and we have no longer to ponder our course of navi- gation. We may reflect on the old

saying: "As you have made your bed, so must you lie," and say that it is false. If we have made a poor start, let us change our course, hit the right path and stamp the pro- gress of 1924 on the annals of time as an epochal year to he remembered long, long after the time when we are gone.

JAY PRICE.

"NEW YEAR'S CONSOLA- TIONS."

If one is to speak a word in sea- son to the "Juniors", he must first know how. There are well-meaning Seniors who make terrible hlunders, their well intended consolations some times are not taken too kindly. Any one feels that he could success- fully edit the "Oriole," or make an elaborate speech on Assembly; and there was a time when "anybody" could give advice, but he can't do it now and get away with it. But we have reason to believe that we really know what we are talking about. We wish to express our heartfelt sympathy, for we have learned the lesson of grief and have

passed through its shadows.

Yes, you have guessed it! "Some little critic teacher will get you some day." You have already be- gun to tremble and worry and con- tinually pry into the life of great joy and happiness of the "Student Teachers," and you can hardly wait until you are a Senior. Don't be in such a hurry. You can grow and develop more rapidly if you will stop looking and waiting for something unusual to happen, that will trans- form you into a great teacher with- out any effort on your part.

This is just a tip, hut get down to business, now, fall in line with the regular work of the school. You cannot be too well equipped for this business of "practice teaching," pre- pare yourself with knowledge and ideas that you can "put over." Re- member you are going to be a teach- er. Are you thinking in terms of "efficiency"? Don't get it into your heads you'll never make a teacher, that it's no use trying, that you never could live through the term "practice teaching". Just you stick, I know it's "Leap Year," but that won't interfere, make every day count and make a teacher of whom dear old Maryland will he proud.

A word in season! "Seasonable- ness, is the saaving quality of ser- vice." We trust we have been of service to you. We are not only rooters for the "hig game," but we are players. Let us root for each other and shout in season, to WIN. ELIZABETH McCANN, Sr. V.

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THE ORIOLE

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THE ORIOLE

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

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

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JANUARY, 1924.

CHRISTIANITY AND EVOLU- TION.

Alvey Hammond, Jr. 5 .- Written January, 1923.

A few days ago 1 had the privi- lege of hearing one of the most prominent men in the world, Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, speak on Christianity and Evolution. This lecture, and a discussion with the future professors of Maryland have given me sufficient knowledge of this subject to enable me to discuss it, and I hope it has given me am- ple intelligence to prove to the peo- ple who read this paper that man was created by God in the likeness of his own image and to him are we responsible.

There are today two great divis- ions of minds as to how man origi- nated, and what is to be come of him when he passes off the face of the earth. The first and true party or division is positive that, in the beginning God made heaven and earth, Genisis I: I; and God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind and every- that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He them. Therefore they know that since God is the heavenly father of us all they believe in the immortality of the soul and the teaching of divine origin as set forth in the foundation of God's word, the Bible.

The other division of people think that man evolved from one or a few atoms of an invisible substance, the origin and nature of which they know nothing, and that when man dies it is his end so far as future life is concerned.

It seems to me the best way to prove that Christianity is the only true and sensible reasoning and the theory or guess concerning evolu- tion is unreasonable and false, and that their hypothIses concerning the evolution of man is contrary to all A little child once lay under an the laws of nature, is to start at the' apple tree gazing off into the clear beginning, prove that they have no'sky when he saw a little apple hang-

beginning, then prove the foolish- ness of the whole theory; then prove that we are right, and challenge them to question our statements.

If I were to ask some of the so- called scientists, or evolutionists, what man evolved or developed from they would say: man developed from the smallest atom or amoeba. If 1 asked them where this atom came from they would say, let us suppose that it existed many million years ago, and then endeavor to sup- pose some more about its develop- ment into a man. So we see their Fibeginning is only a supposition, and l if they had added another million years to their supposition, they pro- bably would have supposed that this atom automatically appeared. How, why, where and from what, they know not.

Since they have such great brains for supposing, let us give them more space for guessing, and not ques- tion their beginning. If they do they will give us another hypothesis of how the small amoeba evolved into a monkey; or first, into a large tree and then how the great tree lost its branches and took upon it- self arms, legs, hair, eyes, and a brain and became a monkey; then how the monkey evolved and evolved and evolved, until finally it became a man, haairless, to be sure, but far superior in strength and intelligence. They will say to some women, but not to all, the reason for men being more intelligent and stronger than women is, that the ape men had to fight neighboring tribes of monkeys, and thus became stronger and more skillful than the women who stayed at home.

If we asked for an example of how great things evolve from small things they will tell us how a poor ear of corn, with proper cultivation, can become a large ear of corn, but will not explain a good example of evolution such as, how an onion can evolve into a sweet smelling lily of the valley. Oh, yes, they can prove to us that any shell fish can evolve into a star, and maybe they can prove how a freckle on a yeast plant developed into an eye, but never can they explain how a brain first appeared in a mold. It is doubtful if these learned men can give us a good illustration of how life evolved from snow and rain, but if they do, politely ask them why and how the sun and moon sprang off into the heavens.

How difficult for them; and yet how simple for us to turn to that great book of science, history, as- tronomy and law and explain how God created, all things. How did God create all things? Let me ex- plain.

ing from this large tree. How

strange that such small things should grow on such large trees," said he. "If I had made this world, I would have made the little apples grow on little vines and had big pumpkins grow on big trees." Just then an apple broke loose from a twig and it fell plump on the little boy's nose. "I guess God knew how to arrange them alter all," he said.

Knowing, as we do. that some power has arranged our environ- ments so perfectly, that some great power has made a world, without a flaw in its construction and has created a universe for us to marvel at, how can such an insignificant particle of that great universe, such as man is, question its ability to make man and to give man life af- ter death as man has had life before death?

Mr. Charles Darwin says that life is an age between two eternities. To prove that Charles Darwin does not know what he is talking about, let us ask him if an eternity has a be- ginning or an end. We cannot have two eternities and an eternity can- not have a beginning or an end, therefore how could life begin at the end of one eternity and end at the beginning of another.

In conclusion, I will challenge anyone to question my statements.

MY HAIR IS OUT OF CURL.

I'm just as mad as I can be, My hair is out of curl. I'll never be the same agaain, My hair is out of curl. All day I've sat and watched the rain, And hit and splash the window pane,

And then I go and look at me

And oh! the awful sight I see, My hair is out of curl.

At eight I rose and dressed for class, My hair was out of curl. I looked again into the glass, My hair was out of curl. Why did it have to rain today? Is all that I can think or say. I know I am one awful sight,

And hate myself with all my might, My hair is out of curl.

All day I suffered at the thought, My hair is out of curl. Would blessed evening never come? My hair is out of curl. But everyday must end at last, And to this thought I held on fast, And then that night when all alone, The darkness may have heard me moan,

My hair is out of curl.

L. V. N., Class '24, Sr. 5.

SHOCKINGI

If she is a poor cook-Discharger. If she elopes-Telegrapher. If you like her-Sparker.

-Olathean.

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THE ORIOLE

EVEN AS YOU AND I!

The Place: Jacksonville, Florida. The time: None better than the present.

The Scene: The garden of a small cafe. The tables are sparsely popn- lated with lonngers enjoying the air, the newspapers, the passersby, etc. We are immediately concerned with but one table, at which are seated:

The characters: A man of forty- five, from the North by his carriage and his high-pitched voice, with an air of well-offness, a business man whose business is a success, and a rather unkempt man of uncertain age, who looks as though life had shaken him violently while young and he had never recovered. A thin, rather anaemic face is dominated by a pair of deep-set eyes. He might be anything from a rent collector to the proprietor of the cafe. As a matter of fact he is a poet. He has a deep, vibrant voice.

The Poet (striking the table flat- ly with his hand) : "But, I tell you, the search for beauty should be the dominating instinct of everybody. something; getting on in the world? Of what use is money if it doesn't I should say I wouldn't!

too much of a visionary. Life is no longer merely living. It is an eco-'man."

nomic struggle."

The Business Man: "Yes, but it (Motions for the waiter.) "Waiter! is the keenness and joy of competi- tion that makes life worth living, not ning.) "Bring me two gingerales, wandering about looking at the ano a paper and pencil! Quick!" The Business Man: "What's all the excitement ?"

- ing; but, what are you doing to help the world along?"

The Poet: "I give it a gilmpse of beauty."

The Business Man: "Yes, beanty, when what it needs is money. Here 1 am, fairly well-to-do. I have plen- ty for my own and my family's com- fort, and possibly a little more. 1 am employing nine hundred men; and, I can afford to spend the winter here in Florida, while you have hardly enough to pay the rent of your single room."

The Poet: "And I would not change a day of my life for a month of yours."

The Business Man: "Oh, but lis- ten to reason. This beauty "chat- ter" is all very well, but it doesn't go in this economic world. What we need is business brains, not idle visions. Give up all this nonsense about there being beauty in life.

There isn't, anymore. That all died with Louis XIV. Be practical. Money is the only thing that counts now."

The Poet: "You hold as nothing his eyes.

then the masterpieces of art, sculp- ture, painting, music, literature, and everything endowed with the! spirit of beauty?"

The Business Man: "Oh, they're all right, I suppose, but the world has changed since all of those were produced."

The Poet: "You can never con- vince me. Your life is as empty and bare as a deserted house. You who have no use for beanty, have no reason for existing."

The Business Man: "Well, I think 1 am more useful to the community than you are. Stack up all of your beauty, it hasn't done as much in the world as my business. We haven't time to- ,,

The Poet: "Would yon be willing to sacrifice all of your comforts and wealth for an ideal, as I have done?"

The Business Man: "Of course Waste my time on foolishness not! could be accomplishing when I

Why live : like a day laborer when you can

The Business Man: "John, you are gain comfort by doing useful work? This squad of ambitious players, You're talking nonsense, my dear practice every day under the care-

He relights his cigar. The Poet, The Poet: "There you have it. his elbows on the table, his chin Instead of being permitted to live resting on his hands, is thinking For our whole season we have out his own life, a man must dig deeply, his eyes are half-closed in about fifteen games scheduled. In in the dirt and muck of a sordid his meditation. Suddenly his face ist."

old material world in order to ex- lights up.

The Poet: "I have it! I have it!"

Waiter!" (The waiter comes run- team!

The waiter brings the glasses, and

The Poet: "Read this and see what you think of it." He leans back in his chair, and watches the Business . Man's expression intently, as if trying to read his thoughts. The Business Man smiles as he picks up the papers and begins to read. In rapid succession, his ex- pression shows puzzlement, interest,

wonder, and finally a deep awe. He shuffles the sheets slowly, when he has finished and hands them back to the Poet, with a faraway look in

The Business Man (In a hnshed, dreary voice) : "John, I think that is the most beautiful thing I have ever read."

There is a long panse in which the Poet rereads what he has written. Then, as if to himself:

The Poet: "I wonder how much I can get for this?"

As the curtain falls the stage crew is heard laughing uproariously off-stage.

"GUNDY," '24. Thespian Dramatic Club.

GIRLS' BASKET BALL!

"We've got the team,

We've got the steam."

This certainly is true with the Normal Girls' Basket Ball team. What we are doing now is only one- half of what we are planning to do. When try outs for the team began we had about one hundred girls to try. Of course we couldn't use all, so we've dwindled down to twenty.

ful guidance of Miss Sammis. Good sportsmanship is the predominating feature in the squad.

all case possible, boys and girls are going to play the same team on the same day.

Ileaven help the foes of Normal's

WE'RE OUT FOR VICTORY. SCHEDULE:

Jan. 12-Western Md. Away.

Jan. 18-Hagerstown High. Home. Jon. 25-Md. School for Deaf. Away

Jan. 26-Hagerstown High. Away.

Feb. 1-Blue Ridge. Home.

Feb. 2-Western Maryland. Home. Feb. 8-Teachers' Training. Home

Feb. 9-Sherwood High. Home.

Feb. 15-Blue Ridge. Away.

Feb. 29-Teachers' Training. Away. ANN GILPIN, Mgr.

The Poet stops a second, scratches slowly through a line, and then The opening game of the season for the girls' basket ball team was played at Westminster January 12, 1924, between Western Maryland College and our team. speeds on. This continues for some time, the Poet occasionally pausing, muttering to himself and scratching his head with the pencil. The Busi- The present line-up is-F., Laird, (Capt.) C., MeCollough; C., Neily; ness Man picks up a newspaper and begins to read. The Poet finally drops his pencil, gathers the clut- S. C., Hanway; G., Sheppherd; G., tered sheets together, and pushes them across the table.

| Hisley ; Subs., El Wolf, Kenlon; Manager, Gilpin. C. MCCULLOUGH, Sr. I.

Miss M .- This is the third time I have had to punish you this week. Why are you so troublesome?

Junior-Because grandpa says the good die young, and I ain't taking any chances.

-The Owl.

bring beauty?"

stars, staring at sunsets, and talk- ing about beauty. I have no sympa- thy with yon, John. You write verses which may give yon a certain amount of satisfaction in the writ- the paper and pencil. The poet shoves his glass aside and begins writing furiously. The Business Man sips his drink ,and watches the Poet with an amused twinkle in his eye.

The Poet: "Wait! Wait!"

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THE ORIOLE

CHILDHOOD REMINISCENCES.

My recollections of my early child- hood days are rather hazy. It is all a blur of green fields dotted with buttercups where we played dolls all day long and chewed turnips. These fields ended abruptly in a small cliff of gray, mossy', rocks, overgrown with columbine. I have never forgotten buttercups or col- umbine. I felt so close to them, as I had only one little girl playmate.

1 was always very fond of my fath- er and ran to meet him every after- noon-principally for the toos-up in the air he gave me. Disappointed because I didn't turn out to be a boy, he did all in his power to make me one. So I was dressed in romp- ers and overalls, called Daddy's boy, and taught never to cry when I met with an accident, but to langh and say it didn't hurt.

Sitting on my grandfather's knee in the old farm kitchen, listening to the colored boy playing "Turkey in the Straw" on the mouthorgan, and the boys jigging an accompaniment was a royal entertainment.

My first sister was a mystery to me. Seated opposite each other on grandfather's knee, I would very slowly and gravely count over her many marvels. She had two eyes, two ears, a nose, mouth, and hair. Wonder of wonders!

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 47

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