Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 50

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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visors and superintendents have more work rather than less work to do because the higher the level of the teaching corps the greater the mo- mentum for the education of the children. In a nutshell the Equal- izatoin Fund is the child's great op- portunity.

HARFORD COUNTY TEACH- ERS AND PARENTS ARE PARTNERS.

Churchville, Md., Jan. 1, 1923. Dear Parent:

Your teachers are trying to give you just the kind of school you want -no more, no less. Will you help us to do so by checking the answers you prefer and remailing this letter to us in the enclosed envelope, as soon as possible? Thank you!

1. Should your child be expected to study at home? Yes-No-

2. Should the school hold enter- tainments to raise money for equip- ment not furnished by the county Board of Education. Yes- No-

3. Should we encourage athletic contests with other schools? Yes-No.

4. Are you in favor of properly chaperoned night socials and enter- tainments at the school? Yes-No-

5. Do you want your children to

belong to the Clubs of the school? Yes-No-

6. Are you in favor of organizing a parents-teachers association in Churchville?

Yes-No-

7. Are you in favor of helping us in keeping tardy marks off our records? Yes-No-

8. Would you likt to see the out- side of the school building beautified rather than have more books added to the school library ?. Yes-No-

9. Are you in favor of visiting the school during recitation hours to see what your child is doing? Yes-No-

You need not sign your name. Very truly yours, HANNAH F. HANWAY, HAZEL E. TENNANT.

Let's make Jan. 7-11 a New Year's visiting week.

Mr. DuBiell, a member of the class of 1874, was one of our Founder's Day guests. He believes in trained |out it perhaps some of the counties teachers.

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THE ORIOLE

M. S. N. S. CAGERS, '24

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POSSIBILITIES OF FOOTBALL school for the purpose of building AT NORMAL.

I, a Junior at this school, wish to know the ideas of other students as to the possibilities of a football team at this great institution. A fellow that is going to a college wishes to know whether or not that particular college plays football. If this an- swer is "no," then he chooses anoth- er college of the same type of work that does play this great college sport. Do you know that there are seven men in this school at the pres- ent time who have played foothall in their respective high schools?

In a conference with Miss Tall the question was asked: "Do we have men enough?"

I answered this question in this manner: If the high school gradu- ates know that we play football they will enroll at our school. Only last year there were three hoys that graduated from the same high school as I did, who had planned

to come to this institutiou until they learned that football was not being played. They then went to college, where they are able to participate in this great sport The other day Miss Tall had Dr. Burdick come out and talk these possibilities over with her. His idea of the thing is very good. He says "Football is a fine game for a college, but I do not approve of it in high schools." The question was "Do you have heavy enough men?" The last question and most import- ant is: "Do we have the money?"

The last question is the one that gives us all a great deal of trouble. I have been talking this over with other college men. They think this to be the best athletic asset to our

up the enrollment of the men stu- dents. These are the results of my investigations: that we should raise our athletic fees to five dollars and have this payable on entrance to the school. Then there must be a change in the amount of money al- lowed by the Athletic Association for the boy's athletics.

We shall need three times as much money to equip the team, and then there must be another coach hired, which costs a great deal of money. Then the question comes: "What shall we give in return for this col- lege sport?" This is my answer to the question. We will fight for the school and advertise it through ath- letics.

I will now attempt to answer Dr. Burdick's other question which reads: "Do you have men heavy enough?" A heavy team is not al- ways necessary to win a game, al- though I do admit this is a great as- set to a team. The backfield must he fast, but the line must be very heavy. Do you know that the high school team on which I played only averaged one hundred and thirty-six pounds? So it is not always a heavy team that wins. Do you remember the Army-Navy game of 1923? This was shown: that a heavy team does not always win, for Navy's team was very much lighter than that of the Army, but the Navy had a very fast team.

I was asked "Could we get games with other schools?" This question is the easiest to answer, for games can easily be arranged with other Normal Schools, many prep, schools and a few colleges. Are we not as capable at playing football as "Polly"

or City College? Why, of course we are.

Have we not the spirit? This needs no answer-just visit a bas- ketball game.

I have given you all the necessary facts. Now, do you want football? I leave this question to the student body.

G. SCHMIDT, G. MURDOCK, JR. VI.

S R BONDS.

At evening when I go to bed

Jumbled thoughts pass through my head.

For after all is dark and dim,

I often have sweet thoughts of him, Į mean my dog, and then perhaps I'll shed a tear

And wish and wish I wasn't here. But suddenly my thoughts will pass And lo! I'm in Psychology class. Why did you leave the other day? I hear the learned instructor say; And then again in Assembly hall, Valuable potentialities, yea that's Miss Tall,

You're a selected group, just moti- vate,

And the children will cooperate; You future teachers of Maryland Look up and see what's in my hand; I look, ah yes, 'tis wooden silk Don't eat candy, drink more milk,

But now I don't think any more, And like my mates, I start to snore. GRACE JONES, JR. IV.

A LITTLE COUNTRY SCHOOL HOUSE.

As you juourney out into the country and gaze at the beautiful scenery along the roadside your eyes are suddenly turned toward a lonely looking little building seated back from the roadside on the peak of a little hill. At once you know it is a little country school house. It is not a very large building, nor is it such a beautiful one. From its appearance it looks as if it must have served as old faithful for at least twenty years. It seems to be separated from civilization, for there are only a few homesteads in sight from the little school. But if you are there when the bell calls the pupils to their work you will find that it is in the very heart of civil- ization, for you can see the bright and glowing faces of thirty or forty girls and boys filing through the narrow doorway leading into the in- terior of this little country school.

Now this schoolhouse may not be one of the nicest places and it may be old and small, yet it is one of the best places after all.

LINFORD L. HARTLE. Alumnus of '23.

THE ORIOLE

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THE FIELD OF EDUCATION. all work on the road or in the mine,

(A. Hammond)

Feb. 11, 1924.

Sooner or later every school stu- dent will be out in the world living, striving and fighting in the game of life. This is what he is getting ready for during his school years. There is a living to be made and a life to lead for all who must get in- to the game. Upon the school and students will depend the preparation for jumping into a game whose con- ditions and rules we do not know.

What can man do? What should man know? How can I best prepare myself for the life I am to live? are questions which are asked day after day.

We want to know what is heing done in the life and world about us. We must know this so that we can better decide where to put in our efforts to the greater advantage. This is not enough; we must know what has been done in the past, for this will give us an insight to the and growing, each generation has a generation more of experiences to master, and so we have been develop- ed down through the ages. More ac- tivities, more neural responses, more longings, yearnings, strivings, each branching off into new and varied fields, until today we have a multi- tudinous, colossal, unascertainable environment. Each man tries to learn that which will give the great- est satisfaction to the greatest num- her of people.

present and hints as to how they can be improved still more. Know- ing about the lives and works of others give us a map of our own lives and works and will help to plan our future course. Successful people have always had to learn what they

had to do with and how best to use it. To bear an intelligent part in the destiny of the race as well as to make a personal success for our- selres, we must know something of the race and must know ourselves. What sort of lands and peoples have we and what these lands and people do. What can we as a social and progressive people get out of the lands and peoples and what can we

We must get out of ourselves?

know the rules of industry and busi- less and how to be a help and not a hindrance to our fellow We must have broader visions and logical minds to look at the busy life of our country and of the world to of human beings and nations work- ing together to make human life a fuller and happier thing. The life with the greatest number of inter- esting thoughts and visions is the life which is most full and satisfy- ing.

That person who is satisfied with life and himself has hecome a mo- notonous handicap and a stumbling block for the men who look ahead for greater things and are placing the potentialitles of their lives where the greatest good will result for the greatest number. Some man has said: "Whether a boy Is from the country or city, rich or poor, weak or strong, talented or not, will and work is sure to win." We need not

(neither need all of us he driving the machinery of the factory, the in- dustrial plant or for the boss of the On September eleventh, so fair, Our class assembled here, To learn of a very new life That we should not fear. corporation, but unless each of us are doing the hest with what we have and are striving to promote and en- courage others to struggle for the hest, our lives are idle. shiftless motors whose work is still to be They told us of this school so fair And us did surely greet.

Our sister group, a haughty bunch Of Seniors did we meet.

So I will try to tell to you In verses good and true,

Of our school life here at Normal, And of what we see and do.

Oh, I like my life at Normal School, For it is wonderous fair;

I have a dance most every night And do not have a care.

I have some difficult subjects, too, But lessons we must get;

We must not shirk or lag behind For then we shall regret.

But best of all our athletic sports Which give me most of fun;

At soccer, or at anything else, I'll always take a run.

The faculty, they treat me square, And lessons to me give;

I'll like them each and every one As long as I do live.

I do not expect to make a man Of myself here at the school; But 1 won't he left so far behind. For I'm not such a fool. GEORGE E. SCHMIDT, JAMES B. THOMAS,

JR. VI.

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Dealers in Coal, Lumber, Hardware, Builders' Supplies.

Towson, Md.

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since 1904.

Agents for Kodaks and Waterman's Fountain Pens

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Maryland

Established 1873

These are some of the problems that have confronted educators and teachers all over the world and have finally come to M. S. N. S. to be A. H. FETTING MANUFACTUR ING JEWELRY CO. passed on by the students of Prin- ciples of Education taken under Mr. Eugene A. Bishop. We talk, Manufacturers discuss, we argue and disgust our instructor, but we feel that we are Greek Letter Fraternity Jewelry learning much and hearing more, and although at times we are dull 213 N. LIBERTY ST. and unresponsive we feel that we have accomplished much for the Dlamonds Fine Jewelry

field of education.

done, and whose burden must be

added to the clutch of others. Edu- cation can dignify and modify work. Education can inspire and create

masters and masterpieces. It pro- vides us for vicarious experiences and helps us to appreciate life and the lives of others. Education

should build for character of the finest type. It raises standards, mor- als, virtues. It forms a bulwark against crime, suffering and immor- ality.

Ever since man has become a thinking animal and has had wants and neural responses he has been broadening the field of education. At one time in the progress of the race it was perhaps possible for one man to know everything. But man's activities are constantly changing

Consequently there many phases of education, and many com- ments on what education should he taught in the public tax supported schools. Not only is there the ques- tion of what should be taught, but how best to teach that which should be taught.

Some people are built strangely.

citizens. |1 suppose at best it seems that way sometimes. Some people love mon- ey, some love wine and some love just for the sake of loving. Either be able to see it as a great panorama one way or another they must love

something. So it is with the pro- cess of education. Some people learn one way, some another, hut there are few who cannot learn at all.

LIFE AT NORMAL.

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THE ORIOLE

YOUNG HACKETT

When Normal School began this fall A boy from Queen Anne came; He's only young in years, you know, And Hackett is his name. .

He eats enough for two his size It surely is distressing,

And whether his belt will burst or not

It keeps the whole bunch guessing.

Now with the girls he is a vamp, He goes to all the dances

He charms them all, both large and small,

As if they were in trances.

He is the worry of our life,

The way he tramps about

In big house-shoes that make a noise When all the lights are out.

So when you hear a noise at night- When all the gym is dark,

You may think it someone very ill- It's Tommy on a .lark.

JOSEPH FIERY,

RUSH, JUNIOR VI

FRIENDSHIP.

People come and go in our lives, but friends and memories of them remain with us always. No matterr how far they may be removed from us our thoughts occasionally drift back to them. And it seems

too, that it isn't until they are taken away that we really appreciate them most. We only remember the good in them then and realize how much they have meant in our joys and sorrows of life.

I refer particularly- to a little club that we formed once at school. There were five of us fellows who formed the "Tuxara" club. We were an unusually congenial group delving mostly in the joys of the world, the one great feature of at- traction being music. We often gathered around "Tom" while he played "That Old Gang of Mine," little dreaming that in a short time our friendship would be strengthened by the loss of one from our midst. He was the jolliest of the bunch too, and I tell you we missed him "just heaps." A good sport, full of wit and humor, and most deserving of all was his love for good literature and fondness of his books. He enter- tained us many an evening reading Kipling and reciting his poems; oft times he gave us some of his own. "Into each life some rain must fall." The rain in ours came when . he left us, and it fell very heavily. It was not death, yet it was like death to us. It cast a pall over us; one that we haven't yet recovered from.

of the finest we ever knew.

that might occur to you while you

read. Your thoughts prrompt re- miniscences, and your reminiscences recall friends, friends bring with them joys, sorrows, good and had. Friendship 'only develops peace. Peace in return brings us happiness. Happiness brings life; sorrow only existence. Let us live, live through friendship.

A Senior.

LIBRARIAN CHOOSES BEST BOOK LIST FOR BOYS ..

The Chicago city librarian was

asked a few days ago by the New Jersey Library Commission to name twenty-five books that all boys should read. He worked at the list for days and could find only twenty- five. These are the volumes he chose:

Mother Goose Rhymes.

Anderson's Fairy Tales.

Aladdin and the Wonuderful Lamp

Perrault's Tales.

Pied Piper of Hamlin.

Don Quixote.

Boutet de Monvel's Joan of Arc. Hale's Man Without a Country.

Sir Thomas Malory's King Arthur Stories.

Jungle Book, (Kipling).

Tom Brown's School Days.

Pyle's Men of Iron.

Robinson Crusoe.

Treasure Island.

Franklin's Autobiography.

Hiawatha.

Tom Sawyer.

Oliver Twist.

Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. Swiss Family Robinson.

Alcott's Little Women.

Ivanhoe.

The Chicago Tribune asks: "What book would you select to complete the desired list? The librarian hesi- tated .. But with these twenty-four he states "there would develop an understanding of what is best in life, making for courage, fidelity, forti- tude, honesty, humane conduct, tol- erance, patience, sacrifice and perse- verance."

-Red & Green. N. Dak.

AM I EARNING MY CHECK?

That question, when asked of any one should he answered with a

"yes," but in the case of a one- room rural school teacher it should be a vehement yes.

To further strengthen that asser- tion I will attempt to give you an inkling of the duties of one of the above named persons.

Contrary to all former customs I am going to start with the close of the day. Let us glance into a little stone building out in the "sticks." So it is in his fond memory that It is now 3.35 and we see the teach- It We write. He was a fine fellow, one ; er coming wearily back from the

door where he has just waved al

This is only one case of friendship happy goodbye (for more reasons

than one) to all his little darlings. Plump! he falls into his chair and emits one long sigh of -(for the reader to guess) Unconsciously he falls to dreaming of the year before at M. S. N. S. when- -Oh, yes!

that work for tomorrow. His reg- ister marked, he starts on the arith- metic lessons, history, reading, gram- mar, and others follow that. Final- ly he looks up-5.15-my, but the time has flown. He gathers up his papers, books, etc., and gets ready to go home. On his way he thinks of his plans for the week. What is on for tonight? Oh, yes! the com- munity singing class. But when am I going to get that 7th grade history planned? He rushes frantically

home, shaves, eats his meal and at 6.15 is at his work again. At 7.15 he gets up, crawls into his coat and starts for the village, where once a week the community meets to sing. After dwelling in the land of music for perhaps two and a-half hours he starts home again, and once there he sleeps the sleep of the just until 7 A. M. At

this hour he rises, dresses, eats his breakfast and is at school at 7.45. His work is put ou the board and he is ready for the day. At 9 A. M. exactly,

the bell rings and forty-some odd charges of dynamite who would do honor to any ladie's sewing circle, rush precipitiously into the room and amid a turmoil of laughter and other sounds fit to deafen one, take their seats. Instantly (sometimes) all is as the night before Christmas. The Lord's Prayer is recited; and "the fight is on." He struggles faith- fully through the morning, now and then-mostly then-in cheerful mood and now and then-mostly now-in a fighting mood. At 12 o'clock the Maryland potentialities rush out,

during which recess the teacher

tries to recover his lost enthusiasm. At 1 o'clock the struggle is on again, with a breathing spell at 2.30. By 3.30 he has taught exactly 26 class- es. Do you know now why I said he waves them a happy good-bye?

The preceding paragraph represents one type of work which this teacher must do every day. Add to this

now many other trivial matters (and there are many) some of which are sure to occur in your daily life, and you have the life of a rural school teacher.

But, dear readers, although this sketch may give you the idea that a rural teacher has no play or fun, don't think for a moment that he hasn't. The singing club means di- version and fun; the Boy Scouts mean hikes, boxing and basketball, and the school room means much joy every day. Above all, we can look forward to more and finer accomp- lishments and plan for it. So I leave it for you to answer, "Am I earning my check?"

An Alumnus '23.

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BƯƠK.

Buck, you beautiful dog of old, Who lived in a land of bitter cold, Still you linger in the book I hold, You wonderful dog of old.

The love that shone in your bright face.

Filled with loving kindness and grace,

Your love was fine, a noble thing, For the love of a dog to bring.

O dear, sweet friend, beyond the veil A partner of the trace and trail, A faithful dog, no more you stir, A good and willing friend you were.

Oh, memories of you come to me, As I sit by the old oak tree,

Sometimes I think you're far away, But in my dreams you by me lay.

Oh Buck, you have gone so far away, To lands where you wanted to stay, Lands far North where the snows still lay,

With ancestor wolves to stray.

Sixth Grade, Essex School, LORETTA PHELPS

JUST THRILLING TALES.

That is the judgment the public, as a whole, has pronounced upon the works of Sir James Oliver Curwrood. With certain exceptions I heartily agree that their criticism is justifi- able. Perhaps when I state my ex- ceptions they will say that I have changed the whole thought of their criticism. Be that as it may, I shall leave that for them to decide.

My first exception is that the "just" be omitted; and my second, and. last exception is that too broad a scope and too deep a feeling has been set up by this great modern author in his magnificent descrip- tions, to be expressed in a few words called "Tales," whether they be simplicity itself or follow the stand- ards of Samuel Johnson. Therefore! I. am compelled to discuss this sec-lof mine visited one of their head- ond one at length.

LATEST CUTS IN GENTLE- MEN'S CLOTHING.

ICOME

THE ORIOLE

region about which most of Oliver Curwood's stories center, there is beauty in natural scenery, a country practically untrodden. by modern man and undefaced by his progress- iveness, which we people of the East little know about and contemplate, even less. If you will read slowly one bis descriptions of this land of wind- swept mountains, of broad valleys with gleaming white priestly robes, and of singing pines and howling huskies, you too, will sense its splen -! dor with awe, and experience the same feelings as Robert Service did! when he was in the great Northland and wrote:

"Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,

And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear?"

In "The Valley of Silent Men" and "The River's End" such descriptions are particularly impressive. The motion picture of the former was excellent, but hardly did such de- scriptions justice.

It is a prevalent idea that the Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman is overdrawn by Curwood. For ex- ample, the rule that a man of the Mounted shall not return to head- quarters until he can present to the commanding officer the law-breaker whom he has been detailed to bring to justice, exists only in fiction to

many; it is really a law of that mighty organization. In one of our local papers, just a short time ago, there appeared a brief account of a R. N. M. Policeman who returned to headquarters after an absence of about six weeks reported that two Eskimos, wanted for murder, had been hung, in accordance with the orders that had been given him, and that his brother officer had been killed in making the capture. They are fitting prototypes for the men in Oliver Curwood's stories. A friend

quarters and told me much about them. They are wonderful examples of physical fitness and perfect mod- els of military neatness and splen- dor. Their bright red jackets are a protection to them, rather than a danger, because there are so many hunters in the great northern woods that their presence must be made known and this is the most adequate means. These men walk with the softness of a cat though they remain rigidly erect and wear heavy leather boots. The R. N. M. Policeman's greatest qualification for his den- gerous out-post duties is his ability to shoot. One of their favorite tests of skill is to throw a soft ball into a large sand pit and let one man at a time keep it on the bounce as it never bounced before with bullets from his automatic. The ball hard- ly touches the sand before it is off

In great Northwestern Canada, the again, and they do this shooting from the hip, which is their cus- tomary position. Thus we see that Curwood has not overdrawn His Majesty's watch-dogs of the North- west.

Another point of great importance in Oliver Curwood's works is that learns much of the natural wealth and vastness of these lands of modern romance. In his latest book, "The Alaskan," this is more marked than ever before, for in it we are brought to the realization that "Uncle Sam's ice-box" contains a splendid store of vegetables and a meat supply that may feed a nation in the not far distant future.

Spend a few hours of your time with the big men in the Northwest and you will feel that your time has been profitably spent.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 50

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