Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 71

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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John Gilpin got upon his horse once more,

Determined he, to reach the inn, Though he was very tired and

sore.

But now the horse was full played out

And could carry him no more; But how he reached the inn- I can tell, no more.

JOHN MCCARTY, Sixth Grade.

The horse, it would not take him

there,

And sorely did he mourn; He was to have for dinner there, Chickens, beans and corn.

And so he got himself a horse And rode into the town,

And there his good spouse welcomed him And bade him to sit down.

RUTH PARR, Sixth Grade.

He ordered chair And ordered a wig; When John got to Ware They danced a jig.

Yet good John Gilpin Dined at Ware, With his thoughtful wife And children fair.

So ends the Golden Wedding day; Good luck to them We hope and pray.

NORMA LEWIS, Sixth Grade.

She-I don't know anything about football. Tell me the names of the positions.

He-Alright, I'll start at the end. Sbe-That's not necessary. Start at the beginning.

WESTERN MARYLAND BASKET BALL TRIP.

The Western Maryland trip was a success. We won two games and lost one. Both the boy and girla defeated Frostburg Normal. We lost to Hagerstown High School.

The games were well

played. Little individual playing was seen; each man played for his team, and that is the kind of work that wins games. We fully expect to win when the Hagerstown team visits ua at home this Saturday.

What The Girls Did At Hagerstown.

We seidom like rain, but we cer- tainly liked to see it rain at Hagers- town Saturday night, January 17th. It seems when it rains, Normal can always shine; and shine we did.

Line-up-Forwards-H. Neff, K. Wilson; center-K. de Sambourg Capt.); side center-E. Hanway; guards-M. Albright, V. Donelson; G. Hilgenberg was substituted for M. Albright in the second half. The other "subs" were: K. Finnell and W. Griffin, but they were not put in,

Wilson starred on the free shots. The entire team starred. The team- work was excellent. Neff shot four field goals and two free shots. Wil- son shot three field goals and three free shots.

The opposite team made thirteen fouls. Our team made four fouls. The final score stood follows: as Frostburg, 15; Normal 18.

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THE ORIOLE

FROM THE ANNUAL ROLL CALL OF STATES IN AN EDUCA- TIONAL EXCHANGE.

Maryland-Considerably more than normal growth in silent read- ing and arithmetic reasoning in graded and rural schools resulting from October and May State-wide tests and supervisory follow-up work with more than 65,000 elementary school children; standard results in both subjects achieved in graded schools; standard results in arith- metic achieved in rural schools .- Albert S. Cook, State Superintendent of Schools, Baltimore.

January is the birth month of many famous Americans - Betsy Ross on the first, Lucretia Mott on the third, Alexander Hamilton on the fourth, Benjamin Franklin on the seventeenth, Daniel Webster on the eighteenth, Robert E. Lee and Edgar Allan Poe on the nineteenth, and William Mckinley on the twenty- ninth.

WHO'S WHO IN THE ADMINIS- TRATION CLUB.

Miss Lida Lee Tall has a big new responsibility this year. The Balti- more City Training School for Teach- ers has been combined with the Maryland State Normal School at Towson, Maryland, by agreement between the Board of Education of Baltimore and the State Board of Education. Miss Tall is the princi- pal of the new school. Those who know her look for more fine contri- butions in the sphere of the prepar- ation of teachers. Our best wishes are with her .- Administration Club Notes, Weekly Bulletin T. C.

OPPORTUNITY. (Blynn Edwin Davis. )

The teacher has the noblest task The hungering heart of man could ask:

To point the way, to educate,

To vivify, to recreate,

To banish strife, bring surest hope, To light the way for those who grope,

To ope new worlds, throw steadying light,

Remove the doubt, confirm the right, With living fact in diligence To motivate intelligence, With patient seeking find the soul And nurture it to perfect whole, With noblest art make those who plod

Look up and swing in step with God.

-Exchange.

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THE SHOT TOWER.

At a Wednesday assembly Miss Harriet Marine, the historlan of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, spoke to us about the Shot Tower in Baltimore.

The brief history of this historical landmark began with the War of 1812. John McKim, one of the merchant kings of Baltimore, wanted to build the largest shot tower in the world. He sent men to Europe to study and obtain pictures of the various types of such towers. The building of this mammoth structure was a huge piece of work As it now stands it is two hundred and forty- three feet three inches high and rests on a foundation of solid rock. The walls are ten feet thick and are made of the best brick in the world. Most Marylanders don't realize what a significant landmark the Shot Tower is. It is the only reproduction of the Roman Needle's Eye.

We shall learn from geography the importance of environment, and from history the annoying but use- ful truth that all acts have conse- quences, and that these consequences cannot be escaped. Also that so- ciety is forever moving on, evolving out of something into something else; that there is nothing final or absolute; no goal, but a succession of goals; that everything is always in a state of flux or change, and that this is the very essence and meaning of life! Such knowledge will be reinforced by some study of science in its main principles. Through combining geography and history with some science, and in no other way, shall we become possessed of the supreme idea of evolution forti- fied by the full, conscious conviction that natural laws cannot be circum- vented. Without a realization of this supreme conception, and with- out this guiding conviction, complete living can be naught but a sentimen- tal dream, for the reason that the material is lacking for sound judg- ment of aims, conduct, and life- values .- Arnold Bennett.

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PRODUCTS DE LUXE FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

A GOOD INFLUENCE.

Education Week, in teaching the value of education, calls to mind the question, "Is the school a good in- fluence in the community?" There are many beneficial things that the school can do for the pupils and for the community as a whole. A good school can he the making of a com- munity. $t gives the young people something to interest themselves in, which will keep their minds employ- ed with something worth while. It interests the parents in community enterprises, because they are inter- ested in the school through their children. It serves as an outlet to the enthusiasm which is a part of young people's nature. It gives the young people a chance to develop physically by sponsoring wholesome games and sports of all kinds.

There are also ways that a school can injure the community. There is a saying, "a town is no better than its leaders." The high school pupils

The American Historical Society by valiant efforts have saved this most famous shot tower. It is the desire of the people to beacon light on top of it as a memor- ial for the boys who died in the World War, thus giving it a double significance. place a of today will soon be the leaders in the country. If a school teaches the actual requirements for a good edu- cation, but instills the wrong spirit BETH CAPLES, Sr. 12. of citizenship into the pupils, it would be better not to have a school at all, for, an educated bad man is HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF LIFE. worse than an uneducated one. It is for the development of good citi- zenship in the school that we are working, and it is to this end that education week was inaugurated.

-Alcohi Mirror.

GETTING OUT A PAPER.

Getting out a paper is no picnic. If we print jokes, folks say we are silly.

If we don't they say we are too serious. If we publish original

matter, they say we lack variety.

If we publish things from another paper, we are too lazy to write.

If we stay on the job, we ought to be out rustling news.

If we are rustling news we are not attending to the business in our own department.

If we don't print contributions, we don't show proper appreciation. If we do print them, the paper is filled with junk.

Like as not some fellows will say we swiped this from an exchange .- We did.

ARCHERY.

"Why do you use paint?" asked a violinist of his daughter.

"For the same reason that you use rosin, papa."

"How is that?"

"Why, to help me draw my beau." -Frederick High Flyer.

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THE ORIOLE

BEAUTIFUL VIEWS FROM WESTERN MARYLAND.

ADVICE TO PRACTICE TEACHERS-WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Practice teaching isn't what it's would suggest you take the bull by Yet the horns.

cracked up to be. Its better. look! Some people shudder at the In a rural school have plenty of all grades, for mention of it. Why is this? They good seatwork for have never experienced the real situ- Satan finds mischief for idle hands to atio. I'lltell you why; it's because do. As I have said before, diversify some one who was not overly suc- this, for "variety is the spice of life." cessful has told them of all the diffi- Connect all subjects in such a man- ner as to arouse interest.

cult problems.

Here are some of the things that will probably come to you. Mr. - did not obtain near the mark in school that Miss - did, yet he ac- complished more in practice teach- ing. I wonder why this is? There's a reason-several of them. First, we recognize the individual differ- ences in both students and teachers. One of the first differences is wisdom. What is wisdom? Here is a defini- tion that i found to be very good: "Wisdom is common sense used in an uncommon way. Probably Miss could answer factual questions in discussion better than Mr. -. "

One of the many questions that presents itself to a practice teacher is how to get along? According to my finding, you need to be a good

disciplinarian. To one who has bad able to think out a new method of

no experience whatever this is easier said than done. There are several possible roads to this goal, but I have found this to be the best. Speak In a low tone of voice, then the chil- dren will necessarily be quiet in order to hear. Smile once in a while; this is a big factor towards an orderly Another final thought is this: teaches few facts, should try his or. her best to develope good citizenship and Initiative. No one should lahor long under the false impression that teaching is a snap; it Is a great responsibility, It is the biggest job In all the world.

above suggestions there is still dis- order in the classroom. It's nat- ural. I'd try a teacher out myself. In such a case, although it is con- trary to the theory of moral suasion which is taught here at Normal, I

CULTIVATE A SMILE.

Do you want a life of sunshine And a bright and pleasant way?

Do you want the name "Good Fel- low"

From the folks you meet each day Ifyou do, get ready for it-

You will find the job worth while;

Be an optimist and ever

Cultivate a sunny smile.

Smiles are catching-more contagi- ous

Than the measles any day;

And if you smile then another Soon will fall into the way; the world will be made

new methods of giving children an understanding of the subject at brighter,

Shorter'll be the longest mile hand. If you see a thing needs at- Over which you're called to travel,

If you cultivate a smile.

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Then, too, there is your critic teacher to think of; a stand-in with her is a valuable asset. You can't tell me, I know. These few sugestions may be helpful. Make all lesson plans three days ahead of time. Use Thus

tention, attend to it as if it were your own school; don't wait to be told. Remember, you can't get more out of teaching than you put into it. Now, here is my conclusion as to why Mr. - got a better mark than Miss - in practice teaching. Little of anything that has to do with your book. Miss -, like most girls, crams from hooks, so has not been

putting a thing across or find any text book that will make her think automatically in a new situation. The solution to such problems isn't in a book. Therefore Mr. - is a better teacher because he can think for himself when the occasion arises.

Every teacher. I believe, even if she Phone Towson 525

class room. Give plenty and various kinds of seatwork. Be on the play- ground at recess even if you only supervise the play. When you come to class don't expect the class to come to order Immediately. Allow them about thirty seconds to get quiet, otherwise It will take several minutes and you will lose In the long run. Probably after observing the

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One good word can warm three winter months.

THE ORIOLE

To be fond of learn- ing is to be at the gate of knowledge.

Vol. 4-No. 5

FEBRUARY, 1925

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

SHAPE YOUNG LIFE WITH for them, through their seven or

BEAUTIFUL MATERIAL.

(Miss Tall's February Message) Walt Whitman understood the psychology of growth and develop- ment in a child. Do you know his poem :- There was a child went

forth every day and the thing he looked upon, that object he became. And that object hecame part of him-the family usages, the langu- age, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart, his own parents, the streets, men and women crowding fast in the streets, the village on the highland, the schooner, the strata of colored clouds; these became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.

Sometimes I think children are going forth in our schools day by day never looking upon real beauty -the beauty of a comforting, clean room, of a beautiful, soft-tinted wall; of a lovely color print hung to catch the soul's eye and satisfy the spirit. Sometimes I think all the world-

particularly the

children

our

American schools are acquiring the obnoxious habit of using a strident voice because the teacher's voice fails to be soft, controlled, rich in tonal quality, and beautiful to the ear. Have you ever listened in the corri- dor of a school like ours between classes? What will the voices of the children of the next generation be like if Whitman is The

right? things we look upon, the sounds we hear, the sights we see-those ob- jects we become.

Sometimes I think the love for poetry and the love for reading poetry just for ourselves, or to a dear friend, is becoming a lost possession. I wonder whether it is because of the very set and academic way in which we dissect and analyze the poems we think we are teaching in our schools. The other day a First Grade child looking at the snow exclaimed: "The snow is like a sheet along the grass," and the teacher said it made the tears come to her eyes to hear the beautiful thought emerging spontaneously from his poetic consciousness. Chil- dren love heautiful things instinc- tively and give out sincere and beau- tiful thought until the wrong en- vironment engulfs and stifles them. Perhaps not all children can frame their thought as beautifully as did Katherine, in a Seventh Grade when she wrote the following poem, but who knows until they express them- selves? One way might be to build

eight grades in

the elementary school, an anthology, every poem of which they would love and some of which they might even create them- selves. Katherine wrote:

SUNRISE.

"I've never seen the great sun rise, For then I am in bed;

The sands of slumber in my eyes

, Hold down my drowsy head.

"I think the sun climbs up the sky. And throws the clouds away;

Then girds her flaming tunic high And strides to meet the day.

"Soft kissed by bird's wings is her head-

Her feet, caressed by trees;

She turns their leaves to gold and red

And stoops to drink the seas."

A SAVANNAH SUPERINTEN- DENT'S MESSAGE.

Superintendent C. H. LeVitt, who wrote the following articles, received his master's Degree from Teachers' College, Columbia. He is

tributor to several magazines and! the writer of a prize story in Col- liers. We quote the following from the National Magazine:

He Sells Education.

"Here is an educator who insists that education is a business-the! most exacting in its demands, the most far-reaching in its influence, the biggest job in all the world. He

believes that the schools have a product to sell, and the more people who can be made to feel a need for the product, the more enthusiastic they will be in spending for it to the limit. With him ,the teacher is the educational salesman de luxe and the pupils are the customers who must be satisfied. If the customers are not satisfied, then there must be something wrong either with the product or the selling plans of the salesman. If the educational stock does not move, either change the sales talk or get a fresh stock of goods.

A BIG KICK.

Jack-"So your father demurred at first because he did'nt want to lose you?"

Peg-"Yes, but I won his consent. I told him that he would not lose me, but gain a son-in-law to boot."

Jack-"H'm! I don't like that last expression."

METHOD OF PROMOTING WORLD FRIENDSHIP THROUGH EDUCA- TION.

A synopsis of Mr. Batchelor's plan which won third prize in the World Peace contest:

In brief, the plan for promoting world peace includes provision for an international bureau of education to be composed of educators elected by the educators of the individual

countries. Maintenance of this bureau would be furnished by each country's paying, on an installment system, one-half of the total amount of its war debts for the establish- ment of an endowment fund. Any country not carrying war debts would contribute to the fund in pro- portion to its population.

This bureau should receive the re- cognition and cooperation of the League of Nations to carry out its aims extensively. Among its aims are these: to revise text-books from the kindergarten on through the col- lege with the purpose of eradicating all national and race prejudices; in

a con- other words, international text books.

This International Bureau of Edu- cation is to extend its influence through the supervision of exchange scholarships, recreation, play writ- ing, and contests. Each subject of the elementary school and secondary school curricula in each country is to be carefully investigated and re- vised with the thought of world- wide unification. For scientific in- vestigation and research this bureau is to act as an international educa- tional clearing-house.

The ultimate aims of this bureau are to internationally control educa- tion, to work for the preservation of natural resources, and to influence world peace in politics.

The foundation upon which the successful operation of this plan is built is plain, every-day education; unlimited participation by all coun- tries; equal opportunities to all na- tions for democratic educational growth; and, lastly, the election of people of the highest intelligence, education, and enthusiasm to its controlling organization.

Captain-"All is lost! We can- not save the ship!" Moses-"Do you hear what he says, Ikey? The ship is going to sink!"

Ikey-"Vell, let it sink! Vat do ve care-ve don't own it!" -Exchange.

-Exchange.

MI TUWSON

1 .. Au LAND

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THE ORIOLE

WHAT ORAL EXPRESSION MEANS TO ME.

It was such a miserable day! The soul moaned-life-what is it-tthe heart beat-I am so weary-and the body echoed-tired - tired -- tired! I had to flee somewhere-1 had to flee somewhere-anywhere. In the topmost gallery of tle theater I watched the puppet show of women flaunting their beauty, men laughing -clowning-and whose very laugh- ter brought me to tears. And then a voice-"No red rose in all my gar-

den! Ah, on what little things does happiness depend. ' 1 have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched."

Spellbound, I drank thirstily at that foundation of words. I have put the sound of this treasured voice in a hidden corner of my chamber of remembrances ----

"And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day;

Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away."

It was not until I studied oral ex- pression that 1 began to understand why this voice affected me so. It was the melody, the rhythm, the feeling, the delicious quality of the voice that I instinctively responded to -- that I now know.

In the case of the teacher a real- ization has come to just what the voice means not only to her, but to the pupils. Day in, day out, the voice of the teacher drones on, on endlessly. But what of this voice? Is it pleasing, soft, low, sweet, sym- pathetic? Alas! how many times it is only a cross word puzzle-with the emphasis on the "cross!"

What then are some of the funda- mental facts to be considered in re- lation to speaking? "An audience almost always sees a speaker's body before it hears its voice," says Wool- bert. Thus a correct posture, one which is neither stiff nor awkward, but graceful, should assuredly be cultivated. Stage fright, one of the speakers' greatest enemies, "can be cured by relaxation of muscles not needed to accomplish the thing you are trying to do." -- Woolbert.

If one were to go behind the scenes upon hearing a clear, live voice, he would find that good health

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reigns there. A sweet voice is the enthusiasm and wholeheartedness gift of the gods-and good health back of them the words will never is the 'case for this jewel.

The mind that cannot find an out- let is in a prison, and the voice that is unpleasant only thrusts the mind back into its prison.

There are four elements that bring change into the sound of the voice: the quality or timbre, force or volume, time or rate, and pitch or melody.

A voice that is alive need not be loud. The quality of the voice can be regulated by correct breathing. Pitch is the agent for delicate shad- ings of meaning and unless quality, force and time are mastered, pitch cannot be mastered. Good articu- lation and pronunciation are also not to be despised.

All of the above qualities are good and yet-there is something sadly' lacking! - something that will smooth the rough stones o'er which the teacher must tread, and that is enthusiasm and interest in her work. Words may roll perfectly from the teacher's lips, but if she has not

knock at the doors of her pupils' hearts and minds. Words may roll like the precious stones from the mouth of the cruel stepdaughter in the fairy tale of long ago, but unless they have sincerity back of them they too will turn to foul toads, snakes and mice.

Words cannot come from the mouth alone; they must come from the heart also! Can you imagine Patrick Henry saying with his lips only, "Give me liberty or give me death"? If he had so spoken his ut- terances would never have echoed until 1925.

Last, but not least, comes what to say-and the answer of course is something interesting - anything worthwhile, but it must be interest- ing! And so-

"Chide me not, laborious band

For the idle flowers 1 brought;

Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought."

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THE ORIOLE

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 71

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