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SOPHIE MINDEL.
ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mr. and Mrs.Archibald C. Tindall announce the 426 York Road EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS marriage of their daughter, Frances Elizabeth, to Mr. Jacob Arwood Cauble, on Thursday, December 25th, 1924, in the City of TOWSON - MAPYLAND
Washington.
At home after January15th, 647 Maryland Avenue, Northeast.
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Young Romeo-"May I hold your hand a second?"
Sweet Young Thing-"How will you know when a second is up?"
Young Romeo-"Oh, I'll need a second hand for that."
-The Meteor.
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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, 1925.
MISS TALL AND MISS HAL- BERG STUDY OTHER STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS' COLLEGES.
Why did we go?
The practice and participation this year has presented many phases for study. Our school performs its stu- dent teaching in the city schools (if we are students from Baltimore city). If we have registered from one of the counties we are trained either in the Campus Elementary School or in one of the fifteen centers in Balti- more county or in one of the two centers in Harford county. Because the City Practice problem is our most recent undertaking, the State Board generously granted the re- quest that Miss Halberg, our Director of City Practice, and I, go into the field investigating what other citles andother States are doing in this respect. Our intinerary included
Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit, Ypsi- lante and Buffalo.
The study was assisted in every way by the unlimited time for dis -. cussion granted us by our various hosts. Dr. Charles Hunt, Dean of the Cleveland School of Education, called in for consultation his assist- ant dean, Mr.irwin, and the Princi- pal and her two supervisors of prac- tice in one of the training schools. Assistant Dean Bow of the Detroit Teachers' College, spent a morning with us, and his very competent Di- rector of Practice, Miss Beazley, studied our training probiem and explained Detroit's most efficient system. Then he and Miss Beazley spent an afternoon with us in one of the Training Schools near the col- lege.
It is said of Zeus, "He fed her Dr. Rockwell. principal of the ambrosia and nectar." The quaint Buffalo State Normai, not only wastold practice stili persists.
tireless in"his Inquiry into our study,
but he was himself fuli of ideas and plans. Buffalo has its campus ele- mentary school; and practices, as well, in sixty-seven public school classes scattered all over the city.
Dr. Baker, president of the Mil- waukee State Teachers' College, ex- plained the system as planned and promoted by Miss Patterson, his dl- rector of Practice, and Miss Halberg found that Milwaukee's problems al- most exactly parallei ours.
At Ypsilante we studied the rurai practice centers, visiting a one-room training school with Mr. Hopper, and a consolidated school with Dr. Pittman, the well-known pioneer in promoting rural teacher-training in the far West. Dr. Charles McKen- ney, the president,is a charming man
and though our day there was a short one, cut off by travel at both ends, he expeditiously routed us to direct sources within his staff for help so that not a minute was iost. The problems studied were these: 1 .- a. The length the practice
term.
b. The number of practice terms. II .- The number of student teachers to a training teacher.
III .- The number of children in the practice classes.
IV .- The progress of children in practice classes.
V .- The relation of the training teacher to the Normal School Staff.
VI .- The unity of purpose of the Normal School Staff.
VII .- The inherent disadvantages and advantages in each situation.
We came back refreshed, stimu- lated, full of ideas, freed from some discouragements, and spurred on to reach new goals. Perhaps the most satisfying result can be stated in the principle: "Each city and State has grown individually in establishing its system of training through its local sentiment, the local school law, and the insight and vision its leaders in education have shown." Could It be otherwise? If we change our practice work at ali because of our visits to the six Middle West schoois it will be because Maryland is where it can take the next step forward In its laboratory program for the bet- terment of program facilities for its student teachers .- From an inter- view hy our reporter, Margaret Boyd.
A FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mrs. Henry Burdette Herr has the honour of announcing the marriage of her daughter, Marian Buford, to Mr. Allan Lynn Hulsizer, Wednes- day, the twenty-fourth of December, 1924., Flemington, New Jersey.
-- St. John's Collegian.
DR. HEDGER'S HEALTH TALK.
On January 7th
Dr. Caroline Hedger, of Elizabeth McCormack Foundation, spoke to the girls of the Normal School on the subject of "Health for Teachers." She pointed out that children today need to learn in school how to be participating citizens. Democracy, if it is to last, must rest upon intelligent citizen- ship and upon the willingness of people to do the drudgery of democ- racy. Every citizen in a democracy must do these four things: (1) He must replace himself In the State; (2) He must run a living democ- racy; (3) He must earn a living, and (4) He must have time to grow a soul.
Dr. Hedgers' second point was that as our forebears tried and struggled for freedom and justice, so today women as well as men, must carry on this struggle. To bear her part properly woman must have health, which should mean these three things: the highest possible beauty, an unconscious body, and surplus energy that may be called upon when needed.
In further discussing woman as a participating citizen, Dr. Hedger enlarged upon ways and means of promoting personal health. To her mind perfectly healthy women should be neither very thin nor very stout. Dr. Hedger laid down a series of practical health rules: first, for the "skinny", and second, for the "fat."
She spoke of the importance of good posture, of balanced diet, of rest and regular habits. She advised the "skinny" to build up tissue, to avoid fatigue, to learn and to prac- tice better posture; but she warned the poor "fat" that she must lead "a life of self-denial." It is neither safe nor wise for her, however, to attempt to reduce without the advice of a physiclan. With care, It Is perfectly possible, Dr. Hedger as- sured the fat giris, to reguiate their weight.
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The talk was both informing and stimulating, and was highly enjoyed by all who heard it.
HARRIET KIRK.
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Dignified Dickerson, oh, what
shame
People don't know her by another name.
The majority of students from Montgomery county who desire to "Toot! Toot!" says the Horn with her poems and such, become teachers enter M. S. N. S., Towson, rather than M. S. N. S., Making the rest of us feel wo don't
know so much.
Not from Missouri, but willing to learn,
"Just tell me how." says little Miss Hearn.
Oh my Lord! If old maids must be So dignified, then deliver me!
Elopements are not here permitted. So Maloney came back, and was acquitted.
so studious, conscientious, too,
happiness are derived from it. The beautyof the school and surroundings And that's about all one fellow can do.
can not
fail to attract students.
Much praise is given the school by the people of Montgomery county, Cabbage is Parksy's only need, Since circles depend upon the feed. for they know the results obtained from the courses at this Normal Still as a mouse we must keep, In order to hear Miss Riordan "peep." School. The remarkable success of many teachers who have graduated here is a strong incentive to students wro expect to be teachers. Conse- She Stoops to conquer, one and all. quently most of the future teachers But do be careful lest you fall. in the public schools of Montgomery county will continue to be graduates The last shall be first, by your names of M. S. N. S., Towson.
CATHERINE RIORDAN, Sr. 15. So Zebley prepares the first question for class.
SEE YOURSELF AS OTHERS SEE YOU.
Members of a group of permanent- ly injured intellectuals who have wielded the board of education:
"Apples" that grow in the top of the tree
Look graciously down on you and me.
More words per minute Baden can say Than other women can in half a day.
Bountiful, bonny, bounteous Bounds, Bounces to "ups" but never to "downs."
A Philadelphia lawyer would retire to the shade
If Brownie, to him her little speech made.
Byrdie is like a little wren: Here now-and gone again.
Cross by name, but not by nature, Headed straight for the legislature.
Covey's little, we know it's true, But at playing hockey, she's bound to get through.
Early any morning this young Chanticleer
Will Cro-nise and loud so
all can hear.
STEBBINS
*And
ANDERSON
Phone Towson 67
A NOTE FROM CUMBERLAND.
Cumberland, Md., Dec. 22, 1924. Miss L. L. Tall, State Normal School, Towson, Md.,
Dear Miss Tall :-
I acknowledge receipt of the copy of "The Oriole" which you so kindly sent me. I have read same with in- terest, and 1 assure you of my ap- preciation of your courtesy and co- operation.
With kind personal regards, I beg to remain, Very truly yours, TASKER G. LOWNDES.
Down's Wedding Invitations
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AN APPRECIATION FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Frostburg. Students are naturally eager to go home frequently and the comparative nearness of Towson to their homes and friends, and the short time and small expense in- volved in transportation, render the school at Towson more lesirable. There is quick and easy access to Baltimore, for Towson is conveni- ently reached by train, trolley and automobile. Besides this, the so- cial life among the large number of students attending this school is very inviting, and much
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A GENUINE SUCCESS.
Ye Festivalle of Christmasse.
Everyone knows that "in unity there is strength." and so to produce just the best piece of work possible for a Christmas festival we decided that for once the "Pests" and the "Norms" were to be one.
The Christmas festival was an un- dertaking. Imagine making our as- sembly hall suddenly
become a mediaeval castle hall. Also imagine our own modern boys and girls changed into ladies and knights and villagers of "Ye old days." But it was done, and it was the hand of Miss Alta Thompson, who waved the fairy wand. The Music Clubs, Craft Club, Art Club, the Music De- partment, the Physical Education Department and several other school organizations were her able assist- ants. Miss Helen Perdue was her "right hand lady," we might say, and made the stage assume all the dignity of a Lord's throne room in ancient times.
The setting was tthe throne room and castle hall of a Lord of high birth; the time was Christmas Eve.
Let us become a critic in the audi- ence and view this festival.
There is nothing missing. There the Lord and Lady sit with the royal children nearby. The Herald, the Lord of Misrule and the Jester each has his place in the Castle Hall. The Lady of the Castle is Miss Katherine Hagan, and a fine lady she makes with her gracefnl poise and Titian hair. The Lord is Rudolph Eavey, and he carries his part well. Per- haps it would be more critic-like to make out a cast:
Herald-Verna Viett.
Lord of Misrule-Jack Stone.
Jester-Komazawa de Sambourg. Minstrel-SavilleMatthews. Tumbler-Emma Sutherland. Virgin-Anna Trail. Lady Clotilda-Ella Pearsanl.
I would like to go right through the cast and name everyone, as all did well, but we must go on with the festival.
The fool tells the story of Poor Geneva, but it is not met with applause as he had expected, because it is much too sad for Christmas time.
The first to arrive to make merry with the castle folk are the little waits; they sing the Lancashire Wassail Song.
The Yule log is next brought in by the foresters and placed in the great open fire place.
The villagehs come singing, ac- companied by the village children. and are followed by the Morris dan- rers who enter the hall and make it ring with laughter.
The Mummers! How they fright-
en the children with their grotesque faces and costumes! But as soon as their antics start all fear is for- gotten in the laughter that follows. The choir boys, led by a boy bishop, chant as they come into the great hall.
There are songs of good cheer and of Christmas tide sung by all, and the Lords and Ladies dance a lovely gavotte.
A little wandering minstrel strays into the hall and tells a story of a wondrous beauty while the assemb- ly listens with rapt attention.
A miracle play called "God's Little Tumbler," is played by the choir boys. and an unknown boy who wanders in to the church gave the performance an ovation by the crowds assembled in the hall. The most beautiful of all is the Holy Vir- gin, who is seen as a statue set in the stone wall of a monastery.
The Lady of the Castle next tells the ever-wonderful. ever glorious story of the Christ Child to her little ones, while the whole company list- ens in awe and silence.
Thepicture made by this group decked in their mediaeval costumes, with their faces full of joy at being alive this Christmas Eve, and the sound of voices mingling together in such a glad chorus are things long to ! ho remembered with a great deal of pleasure.
KOMAZAWA DE SAMBOURG, Sr. 9.
The Maryland Bulletin-Md. School for the Deaf:
Your Christmas number has some good illustrations. The article of Henry Van Dyke's is well chosen for the first article in the paper, for it gives a beautiful story of the joy and love of Christmas.
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RABBI LAZARON INTERPRETS PALESTINE.
A rare privilege attended us on December 11, 1924, when Rabbi Lazaron of the Baltimore Hebrew Temple, spoke to us about the beau- tiful country of Palestine as he saw it while there with Dr. Birkhead.
As an introduction he said: "1 am a teacher like you. Some day you will be ranked among the teachers of teachers with an unusual opportun- ity. A teacher paints pictures in character. He makes and builds characters with God.
"1 cannot understand," he said further, "how any group of people preparing to be teachers can be de- void of religious feeling or senti- ment. Every one of us have a mys- tic attitude toward life. A very young person wants to relate himself with this life. Building on this sen- timent of mysticism we come upon the concept of God, who is the Su- preme Mind and Will
"Palestine is only forty miles wide and one hundred and twenty miles long. The distance from here to Washington represents its width, and the distance from here to New of these still, dreamy Judean nights York represents its length. One might well understand how sleep visiting this land understands how must have fallen upon Peter and his fellow disciples on that memorable night. But men and women must
it had something to do with the messages in the Bible. Palestine has given to Jew and Christian a watch, not one hour, but many wonderful religion, a religion hours." which has transformed the lives of He concluded his talk by saying: so many people in the world. This | "In the building of God's Kingdom country, viewed from the Mount of it is not the potentate, nor the Olives where vistas of infinite space Statesman, but you young men and are opened-slit through hy a great women who must work modestly and gorge 1,000 feet below raised to the height of
sea level, quietly at moulding the character of 6,000 feet, those who shall be of the Kingdom high by Mt. Hebron, whose climate of God. This is your task. May
is as the Arctic, whereas the deserts God fit you to serve Him."
of Judea are torrid, and adorned by the marvelous colored Dead Sea to the south-is the stage for the page- antry of the past. . As one gazes up- on this scene the history of the Bible rises before you. This Bibli- cal land helped me to better under- stand my Bible.
"There are some passages in the Psalms especially which this land helped me to know and understand better. One day while traveling through a dusty road with my friend, while the sun was shining down upon us with its intense heat, we were becoming very thirsty. Sud- denly we saw not far in the distance, in the shadow of the olives trees, a spring around which many people had gathered to rest themselves and to become refreshed by the sparkling crystad waters. Now I can read with much more meaning:
" 'Hide me in the shadow of thy wing,' 'and my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is.'
ing to mould character we must un- derstand this mysticism. It is with- in your power to understand through the all embracing spirit of love. My soul athirst for God must transform mysticism into vital power from God, who is love. We all have Him in common.
"All about us are perplexing prob- lems. Might and power have never solved them. The law cannot solve them. Public opinion cannot solve them, because it is not sensitized enough. People need an overwhelm- ing motive that will lift their souls into the realm of divinity to charge them with a great faith, a great con- suming faith in God, to solve their problems"
The Rabbi continued: "One night my friend and I went to the Mount of Olives. It was a Palestine moon- light night. Before us was the city of Jerusalem, from which shone the great dome of the Mosque of Mo- hammed, the Tower of the Greeks and Latins, and the Dome of the Synagogue, and all about lay the silence of the night. Do you remem- ber the passage in the New Testa- ment where Christ said unto Peter, 'Why could ye not watch with me one hour?' Anyone witnessing one
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EDUCATION PAYS
The youth trying to find himself.
The young worker seeking to in- crease his powers.
The professional man ambitious to serve better.
The statesman wishing to improve democratic government.
The farmer eager to make the most of the land.
The manufacturer needing reliable workmen.
The merchant searching for intelli- gent buyers.
The person of leisure pursuing the enduring satisfactions.
The religionist who wants right con- duct from high motives.
Any one who cherishes the full, richer life of continued growth and improvement.
-From The Journal of National Education Association.
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RADIOS BEAT FOR FUN.
Intelligence tests are a wonderful invention. There has heen so much said for and against them that even if they weren't any good they would justify their existence by being a good topic for conversation.
Juniors do not know much about them except that they are one more thing they have to go through before entering. But to a Senior, the privilege of having his intelligence tested is a rare scientific treat.
This is the way we were indulged here. All the Seniors assembled at 9.00 in the morning with questions in their hearts and expectation on their faces. Mr. Woeifel, sonorous- ly but comfortingly told us what we already knew. Then we went to different rooms. There we sat and waited. We waited until the tests came; then we started and then we worked. We had one test right af- ter the other, and then we had some more.
There were completion tests which if you didn't complete will complete you. Completion tests are exceed- ingly interesting as they allow more room for imagination. They would permit still more if it were not necessary to make true and sensible statements. Arithmetic tests are
about the worst. They're worse in more ways than one. They make you tired, then they make you mad and frequently make you stop.
Stopping is about the best part of intelligence tests. It's such a relief, for then the fun begins. All the Seniors assemble in groups around the halls, and in low, modulated tones discuss intelligence tests in general and the ones just taken in particular.
All the Seniors, I think, will agree that intelligence tests are, as has been said before, a wonderful in- vention. They are a good substitute for classes. They are "peculiarly" interesting and they furnish a com- mon topic for conversatiin.
GRACE JONES.
The Sixth Grade of the Normal Elementary decided in their Liter- ature class that the ballad, "John Gilpin's Ride," needed more stanzas to complete it. The class wanted to see John Gilpin get back to Edmon- ton, where he and his wife were to celebrate thelr 20th anniversary.
Each child wrote what he thought would be a fitting conclusion. As to how they fit we will let you decide for youraeif.
And there he stood, Without a cap or wig, And so around he looked And hailed a passing rig.
To Edmonton, to Edmonton, To Edmonton and away;
Hurry driver,he shouted, I must not tarry along the way.
And then he started back again, On the same road he traveled be- fore;
My but he was tired and sad As anyone of yore.
Out on the balcony stood his wife Calling, hurry, you're late, Come! come in, quick! The dinner's in an awful atate.
Where are your bottles, asked she: And, oh, guess what he said;
I dropped them, oh! oh! or! But quick, I must be fed.
And so the party went on fine, And everyone was gay, so gay, And now they want to wish to you A merry, merry good day. CAROLYN GREEN,
Sixth Grade.
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