Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 68

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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powers;

And cheerful turn, when the long shadows fall

requirements At eventide, to play and love and rest,

Because I know for me my work is hest.

I asked someone this very ques- tion the other day, and this was the When vagrant wishes beckon me astray,

reply: "So that we will need trans- portation and in this way give our Exhibit, full of attractive literature, chauffeur something to do." Know-

Stokes, 'ing this could not he the reason I Of all who live, I am

We have a very definite American lin the history of this country each

An important exhibit of an old State has been held responsible for To suit my purpose and to prove my

Santa Maria and other valuable an- tiques from Bertram Berney's Shop education.

on Charles street came next.

Baltimore Museum of Art and the Maryland Institute.

Every afternoon from four to five

Inomics Department with members of stance as follows: "That the legisla- the Te Pa Chi Club anl Faculty s hostesses.

During the week the from the Elementary School visited the exhibit and selected their favor- ite hooks. How they marvelled and exclaimed over their beautiful new friends.

A faculty book club was organized

everyone.

E. Thompson.

Mother Goose map. With these di- Books.

BERNICE LEGUM,

WHY WE HAVE RURAL PRACTICE.

THE ORIOLE

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DEAD DREAMS.

1 wonder just how often I do the things I should? I've fallen 'way below the mark And I never thought I would.

I've had dreams and standards too; My dreams were clear and bright, But they're all gone and my faith is gone;

They've vanished from my sight.

Remorse is less than useless, It never takes you far:

I'm stalled, I'm blind, I've lost my | dreams,

I wonder where they are?

GRACE JONES.

LIBRARY TALES.

The November Oriole gave you a word on the purposes and ideals of the library, and a hint of the large amount of work with books being done. It may interest some to know that in October over 21,000 volumes were circulated, besides texts given out for the term. In November 16,374 books were circulated.

The librarians feel that the spirit of co-operation and helpfulness has increased during the past month and are appreciative accordingly. Such aid frim the students makes the work of the library easier and brings to them an increased value in more efficient and quicked response to their own needs.

The students taking courses in Children's Literature will be glad to know that Miss Osborn

selected nearly thirty titles from the beauti- ful Book Exhibit to be purchased for our library. These were chosen particularly for lovely illustrations, representing such well known artists as Athur Rackham, Gustaf Teng- gren, Edmund Dulac, Kate Green- away and Leslie Brooke. A few of the delightful foreign children's books are to be hought also.

We are to have them in strong library binding, so that the beautiful plates and pictures will not loosen and fall out; and while these take a little longer to procure, it is hoped that they will be here for a New Year's greeting. if not for a Christ- mas present. D. J.

CHRISTMAS PLAYS FOR CHILDREN.

Suggestions from Drama Book Shop, 29 West 47th St., New York City:

A Christmas Tale-Maurice Bouchor, 35 cents.

A Miracle Play of 15th Century, Paris-Lawrence Houseman, 35c. The Story of the Childhood of Christ very charmingly told.

Merry Christmas

Why The Chimes Rang-Elizabeth The Blessed Birthday - Florence Converse; 75 cents.

McFadden; 35 cents.

A Christmas Carol-Dickens-G. M. Baker; 25 cents.

The Snow Queen-From Hans C. Anderson's story; 75 cents.

Jingle Bells -- Lewis; 75 cents.

A Christmas Operetta.

Eagerheart-A. M. Buckstan; $1.50. Birds' Christmas Carol-Kate Doug- las Wiggin; 75 cents.

The Yuletide Rose-Katherine Lord and The Greatest Gift-Little Play Book; $1.50.

Christmas plays for children com- piled by Kate Oglebay, Drama League Book Shop, 7 East 42nd st. New York City.

Bethlehem Tableaux-Dent.

Christmas Candles-E. H. Carter, $1.50.

A book of twelve Christmas plays. ( hristmas Festivals of Old Eng- lish Customs and Carols-Ar- ranged by F. Zela; 25 cents.

The Legend of St. Nicholas-Beulah Dix.

Little Folks Christmas Stories and plays. Christmas in Many Lands -edited by Ada M. Skinner; $1.50.

The Seven Gifts-Stuart Walker; 25 cents.

The Waif-Elizabeth Grimball; 25 cents.

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THE ORIOLE

YE FESTIVALLE OF CHRISTMASSE.

Monday, December twenty-second. Now that the month of Decem- ber is well on its way we are minded to bring tradition into play and celebrate as we think, from our re- search, would please the spirits of our English ancestors of the early sixteenth century.

Here we are ou a high hill which is most fitting for a Tudor castle, many hundreds of years.

and our great building hums with life as varied as that in the most active old castle. Our assembly room will easily play the part of the great castle ball. All the clubs of the school will combine in their ef- forts as the guilds of the town in the old days used to do to make Ye Festivalle one long to be remem- bered.

In the great hall we will all fore- gather in the late afternoon of Mon- day, December twenty-second.

Some of our number, more fortu- nate than the rest by reason of their skill, will be the actors.

And this shall be the order of the evening. The guests who are be- low the dais-whereon the nobles sit, for there is caste among us on | Monthly." Under Miss Reed's care- this night-will arrive after the ful guidance Jolly Jack Frost was watchman has given out the hour of selected as the theme for their paper four and take seats according to and after a discussion of the old their time of arrival as directed by fellow's characteristics and pranks After the children were given the privilege treating the subject as they

that hour the ladies of the Castle of will come up upon the dais; then will enter with joyous lords, ladies, squires and pages with greens to deck the hall.

The Lord of Misrule will preside' over the festivtites that follow and with the Jester present fun a-plenty is assured. The Waits have pledged come;

to certain villagers have He comes around every night; promised to bring the Yule Log with ceremony due; Morris dancers plan to come, dancing all the way from town. Certain mummers are re- hearsing as this goes to press, to give the grotesque old Mummer's play, with Father Christmas, Saint Jack Frose is very bold, George, the Doctor and Beelzebub; ; and anticipating history beyond the sixteenth century, one will play Oliver Cromwell. A minstrel, the type so highly honored in the days of long ago is almost certain to be Jack Frost, he comes in the night, there with a tale of wondrous beauty. He is tricky, jolly and bright;

On Yuletide Eve it has been the He pinches our fingers and nips our custom for years unnumbered for toes, the choir boys to act and sing in the And loves to nibble on our nose. great hall. As is their wont, one of their number will turn bishop, and He loves to paint the leaves

will lead them all. Some of the, But mischievously he bites knees; boys will sing sweet carols, others, He is the jolliest fellow

it is saidfi will give a play-a quaint And never was known to be yellow. miracle of Luxembourg and called "God's Little Tumbler." That play He frezes the milk

promises to charm us all and make us think of Yuletide Eve as the sea- son of great miracles and loving deeds. In it a simple peasant lad

has naught to offer to the Mother of the Christ Child save his own fair feats and song. Gifts from a heart so pure have greatest power and

cause a miracle. That is the play the choir boys from the minister will give upon that night. After that, we all sing carols thus giving our gifts of song, and we will give praise that there is a Yuletide Eve, and that, in a world so filled with many troublous things, hearts are still so full of simple faith in beau- tiful traditions that have lived for so

ALTA E. THOMPSON.

MISS REED'S CHILDREN GIVE A DELIGHTFUL DEMONSTRATION LESSON.

Last week Senior Eleven had the pleasure of observing an oral composition lesson taught by Miss Reed in the Fourth Grade of the Elementary School. This lesson was an introduction and discussion of a topic, to be written either in prose or poetry for the Fourth Grade's contribution to the "Elementary

wished, writing their papers at home

song the for the next day's assignment.

You may judge the result of this lesson by the following poems and paragraphs just submitted by the pupils:

JACK FROST.

There's a jolly, jolly old man,

He paints the windows nice and fair And leaves them all snowy white. He is dainty, but fierce; little, but strong,

He comes in the night, but doesn't stay long:

He bites our fingers and makes them cold.

LOUISE KIRK JOHNSON. JACK FROST.

The jolly old elf, And then he goes himself.

flying away by

DOLLY STREETT.

LITTLE JACK FROST.

When little Jack Frost comes danc- ing along,

And turns all the leaves to the color of a fawn,

He spreads a blanket of diamonds on the ground

To keep the earth warm, safe and sound.

He hites your ears and nips your nose,

And makes you shiver way down to your toes.

He makes the garden look sad and brown,

And spreads on the water a hard, slippery gown. By JOHN BALDWIN.

THE STORY OF JOLLY JACK FROST.

"I am going to make it cold to- night," said Jack Frost, "and I shall be at my old tricks again."

"I shall go silently and put the flowers to sleep,

I shall make fairy castles and mountains on the window panes.

The ponds I will freeze with ice and the tall cedars will sparkle like diamonds by the time I'm through tomorrow. .

I shall hide away behind the sun beams."

MURIEL ELY.

JOLLY JACK FROST.

Jack Frost is a jolly old fellow.

He paints pictures on windows,

The birds he drives to the south where it is warm.

To the mountain he softly creeps, to put a crust of white frost upon them,

The leaves he paints a fiery red,

On the river he spreads a coat of mail.

After all Jack Frosts' pranks he tip- toes home. EILEEN PRYOR.

NAUGHTY JACK FROST.

When I'm in bed and fast asleep, In my room Jack Frost does creep; He bites my toes and nips my nose And takes off me the warm bed- clothes:

Jack Frost, why don't you go away, And come again some summer day? For then I'm sure you'll melt away. CHRISTINE DOLLIVER.

THINGS JACK FROST DOES.

When autumn leaves are turning pretty colors,

Old Jack Frost come down the hill to make the children run.

He covers the mountain and freezes the lakes,

He puts frost on the windows

In pretty designs of people, flowers, castles,

And all sorts of funny things.

JEANETTE LUTHY.

the gentlemen-in-waiting.

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THE ORIOLE

THE HOME COMING.

How many, many times I have stood on a corner of Fayette street and waited for the Towson car. On November 8th, I found myself again on a corner looking for "No. 8." I could hardly wait. At last I would see "our dear Alma Mater, the school we love best."

There were friends to see and questions to ask and answer. "Do you like 'it?' "

Then the meeting and "it" was discussed in its many twists and turns. When I entered the room where the meeting was held there seemed to be a social and profes- sional spirit and to me these made a strong appeal.

1 think for the first time I realized that just as my previous instructors were teachers so was I. It seemed good to know that others had had similiar difficulties and similiar ex- periences and that I wasn't the only one. It helped so much just to talk things over heart to heart.

I was interested to hear the city students tell of their experiences; in fact, the talks of the experienced and inexperienced, alike, were a real in- spiration.

Seat work was and is a big prob- lem to me, and the samples in the exhibit I saw helped me to solve it.

I was fortunate enough to steal a ' few minutes of some of the instruc- tors' time. They too, felt and some- times still feel just as we do. They have succeeded. so why can't we? That's just the way they made me feel, and 1 was glad.

The Home Coming appealed to me socially. First, the meeting seemed to have a friendly democratic atmos- phere. The second appeal came at the luncheon. The table arrange- ment, with a faculty member at each table, was a splendid idea, for here again we could talk things over. The kindly spirit hetween the City and Towson students and teachers was shown, not only at the luncheon, but at the Home Coming in general. We found that we could spend the night once more at dear old M. S. N. S., for accomodations had been made wor us in the dormitories.

The dance in the evening was the climax of the social events. While dancing in the auditorium, as we had done so many times before, we felt as if we were students again instead of the teachers we really are.

It is easier to talk than act. We have seen many projects in practice schools, In schools more ideal than those In which we teach. I wonder if one of us had told of a project, or shown one that he had worked out in his actual teaching, if it would not have helped more?

Many of us had the same experi- ences which tended to make the talks monotonous. Therefore I

think that if each speaker had been given a definite topic this overlap- ping might have been obviated.

The Home Coming of 1924 proved a success and an inspiration. To those of you who were there I need say nothing further, but to those who were not so fortunate as we, I would say that we did enjoy it and that we missed you.

EMILY STEVENSON.

SR. 6 WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

WHY-

Saville Matthews has so many meetings?

Alice Hull goes home every week- end ? Cora Bowen talks so much in class ?

Frances Tull makes so many mis- takes when she reads her summary in History of Education

Why some girls in Sr. 6 are get- ting to be nervous wrecks?

Why Lenna Baker is in favor of a Student Council?

One Graham is such a good stu- dent?

Emily Dennis is continually speak- ing of Paul ( the Apostle) ?

Marie Lowe likes "Ford Coupes"? Ruth Brown studies on Sunday nights?

Margaret Owens is wild about base-ball (players) ?

"Mitzi" does not like to go to St. Johns?

"Wils" doesn't like her last name? LULA MAE BRITTINGHAM, Reporter.

NEW FACULTY MEMBERS.

GRACE W. MINK- State-Maryland.

Degree-Ethical Culture

School,

New York City. Subject-Kindergarten.

ROSE MARIE BARRY-

State-Maryland. Degree-Peabody Conservatory. Subject-Music.

PEARL BLOOD- State-New York. Degree-Teachers' College, Co-

lumbia, M. A. Subject-Geography.

IDA BELLE WILSON-

State-Maryland.

Degree-Columbia University. Subject-History.

E. GRACE RICE-

Subject-Nature Study & Hygiene. Phone Towson 525

State-Maryland. Degree-B. S. Columbia.

NORMAN WOELFEL- State-New York. Degree-M. A. Subject - Educational Measure- ments.

(To be concluded in next issue) L. M. B.

A PROJECT IN FIFTH GRADE GEOGRAPHY.

Every student teacher at one time or another should have taught some geography. When I taught this sub- ject it fell to my lot to be given the Southern States. In order to study these States in a way to develop everyone's interest I decided on a project. This project was just this. In studying the Southern States we took up cotton. I had the children put themselves in the place of a rich merchant who wanted to build a cotton mill in the South, somewhere. We wrote letters for all information possible on their city as a place in which we might build a cotton mill. I knew that we would not get a reply from the letters for at least two weeks. I therefore had my class study the

map of the southern

States.

In this map study the children learned the locations of the different cities that we wrote to, and for what special reason New Orleans might be chosen in preference to Birming- ham or some other city or cities. At this point we student teachers were changed, leaving me half way in my project. My critic teacher told me that she would carry it on, so I felt better about it. This is what I ex- pected to do. 1 intended to have the children chose the city in which we were going to build our mill. Then we would take up the study of cot- ton itself. ] would have them see the cotton in its different stages and in what stage it would come to the mill and where it went from there until it was made into clothing.

We would then be able to answer the question, "What difference does cotton make to me?"

J. THOMAS, Sr. 13.

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

Towson, Md.

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F. B. and M. L. Ports, Props.

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THE ORIOLE

ONE COLLECTION AT THE BOOK EXHIBIT.

At the recent exhibit there were on display a number of books not only from this country but from England too. The collection was in- deed varied not only in types of books hut also in their prices.

There were in the same group little paper-bound copies of "The Three Pigs" and "Tom Thumb," illustrated by Leslie Brooke, costing fifty cents, and "An Argosy of Fables" which cost seven and a half dollars.

The books that attracted and held my attention more than any others were those collected by Virginia Nisbet, who graduated from B. T. T. S. last year. The other books were interesting in that they were books which were desirable and which could be bought, but Miss Nisbet's collection showed books that she had found desirable and had really used. Here we could see just what one girl had done in the way of collecting books. Perhaps each of us could not get as good and as varied a col- lection as Miss Nisbit, but certainly each boy and girl in Normal, if he would try could get some helpful suggestions from Miss Nisbit's book shelf and buy some of the books for his own use.

As far as possible I am giving the name, anthor, publisher, illustrator and price of each book in the group: Jessie Wilcox Smith-Mother Goose; Jessie Wilcox Smith; Dodd, Mead & Co. $5.50.

Fairy Flute-Rose Fyleman; Doran, $1.25.

Fairies and Chimneys-Rose Fyle- man; Doran, $1.25.

A Child's Garden of Verse-Rob- ert Louis Stevenson. Scribners, $3.00.

Home Book of Verse for Young Folks-Burton Egbert Stevenson; Henry Holt & Co., $3.00.

Sing Song-Christina Rosetti; Mac- Millan, $1.00. Little Songs of Long Ago; Mckay, $3.00.

The House in the Wood; Warne & Co., $2.00.

An Argosy of Fables; Paul Branon; Frederick Taber Cooper, $7.50. Age of Fables of Beauties of Myth- ology-Bulfinch; Mckay, $2.00. Hawthorne's Wonderbook; Doran, $3.50.

Just-So Stories-Kipling; Kipling; Doubleday. Page & Co., $2.50.

A Child's Book of Modern Stories; Duffield, $3.50.

Anderson's Fairy Tales H. C. A .; Harpers, .. 1.50.

The Golden Goose and The Three Bears-Leslie Brooke; Warne & Co., $2.00.

The Three Little Pigs - Leslie Brooke; Warne & Co., 50 cents. Tom Thumb-Leslie Brooke; Warne & Co., 50 cents.

The Complete Nonsense Book; Duf- field, $3.50.

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe; Houghton, Mifflin & Co., $2.00.

The Children's Bible-Henry A. Sherman and Charles Foster Kent, well known artists; Scribner's, $3.50.

The Wind in the Willow-Kenneth Grahame; Scribners, $1.75.

Uncle Remus-Joel Chandler Har- ris, Appleton, $2.00. EVELYN IRELAND, Sr. II.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC .. Required by the Act of Congress of August, 24, 1912. -Of-

THE ORIOLE. Published monthly at Towson, Mary- land for October, 1924.

That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are:

Publishers-Students Maryland State Normal School, Towson, Md. Editor-Alice Munn, Towson, Md. Managing Editor-Alice Munn, Tow- son, Md. Business Managers - John Gildea, Earl Price, Towson, Md.

That the known bondholders, mort- gagees, and other security holders owning or holding I per cent. or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are none. ALICE MUNN. Managing Editor.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of December, 1924. W. CARROLL VAN HORN, Notary Public. My Commission expires May 1, 1925.

HUMOROUS-MORE OR LESS.

It's great to be an editor And sit up late at night,

And scratch your wool, And write, and write, and write.

We editors may work and work "Till our finger-tips are sore,

But some poor nut is bound to say "Aw, I've seen that joke before." -Exchange.

Reserved for STEWART&CO.

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THE ORIOLE

A PROPHECY.

1 can see the morning breaking, When the fire in the sky

Is kindling in the eastland And I know that day is nigh.

1 can see the frosty covering Over fields plowed with care, And I know there's a reason For such changes every where.

I can see the autumn beauty, The leaves of every hue.

I think that she's the artist Of the seasons-don't you?

I can seen the grasses browning, Leaving spots so cold and bare.

I know that winter's coming,

I can feel it in the air. NELLIE MAGAHA, Sr. Eleven.

THE PRINCE OF THE SEA.

A Child's Story.

Can you imagine yourself in Por- tugal about fourteen nineteen ?

You gaze westward over the vast ocean and wonder where and how it ends. Most likely it is cut off sud- denly and a ship coming to the end would tumble off into-what? To- ward the south is it not just as bad ? As the ships reach Africa it is so hot that the air is a flaming red and the ocean waters boil.

It was in just such a time that Prince Henry, the navigator, lived. People everywhere were supersti- tious and feared the monstrous ocean. Now Prince Henry was dif- ferent. He was more learned and of course less superstitious. Prince Henry thought that the earth was a sphere with the ocean wrapped around it like a blanket. As I have already said, Prince Henry was very learned, and he was rich too; so he could buy maps and make experi- ments quite impossible for poorer men.

This Prince built himself a home on the very southwestern point of Portugal, where he could live. study the stars and build ships. He in- vited all men of learning and all sailors to tell him their stories.

For years and years ships had gone along the desert coast of north- western Africa for seven hundred miles or more. But at a certain cape, beaten hy hugs waves, these ships all stopped and turned back. Men had named this place Cape Non, hecause they were sure that any ship which passed it would never return.

Henry, the navigator, had one de- sire and that was to push on down the African Coast past this dreaded Cape. Prince Henry formed a nau- tical school, which means a school · where they study about the sea, and train men to be good sallors. He spent most of his time and money in teaching his pupils, who were grown

The stars were studied, so were maps and different kinds of instru- ments; ships were built and prizes were offered so that people would venture out past the Cape. Prince Henry laughed at the foolish ideas of the flaming air and the boiling sea. To his delight one of his ships passed this Cape Not. As usual, af- ter one dared and was successful, many followed.

It wasn't long before another new cape, fierce and uninviting, barred the way. Again it was years before sailors dared to go beyond this, Cape Bagador. Finally a daring captain rounded this Cape too and found the sea on the other side not boiling or fierce, but as calm as the sea at home.

As each new barrier was overcome the sailors hecame less afraid. They had overcome one, so why couldn't they overcome others. The sailors began to try new seas, because they wanted to please their beloved Prince, who had given his whole life working on such things.

After Gil Eannes passed Cape Bajador, several different men made landings and got glimpses of the natives. In fact they thought that the Prince would be pleased to see such people, so they captured ten men, women and children. Prince Henry thought this a great and use- ful deed. He wanted to make Christians of them and to learn more about their country from them. As a gift for this service, Prince Henry gave his men a small bag of gold and some of the captives for slaves. Just think of having gold and slaves just because one

African trip. Was that not much encouragement for sea-faring men ? Men began to make daring trips to Africa to gain wealth, not to find new lands. Through it all Prince Henry his once never gave up interest in the love of discovery. He kept on studying and prob- ably came to think: "That voyage is a proof that Africa has an end to- ward the south. The Indian Ocean over east of it and the Atlantic west of it must flow together at that southern end. If we could round that point we should come into the Indian Ocean and might sail on to China and the Spice Island." Prince Henry's ships had only gone half way down the African coast, as we know it today, when he died.

This noble Prince of the Sea had spent forty years, working on things which would aid in the discovery of new lands. These forty years were not spent in vain, for men through his influence had salled for eight hundred miles westward. They dis- covered that these far-off waters

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 68

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