Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 77

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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SIXTH GRADE,

Normal Elementary School.

He-"May I hold your hand?"

She-"Of course not; this isn't Palm Sunday!"

He -- "Well, it isn't Independence Day either.

-Exchange.

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THE ORIOLE

March, 1925.

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YE PESTS.

We've got the PEP We've got the VIM, We are the PESTS And we're out to WIN.

NORMAL AND PESTALOZZI LITERARY SOCIETIES CONTEST II.

Authorship Clubs-Original story, original poem:

Pestalozzi-A Moorish Fantasy, Phyllis Purnell: Dreams, Dorothy Shroeder.

Normal-Blindness, Minnie Bach; Visions of Love, Annetta Rehling. Current Literature Clubs- Pestalozzi-A Visit With field, Elsie Corner. Normal-Kipling's Career, Mary

Mase- Louise Hoffman.

Story Telling Clubs-

Pestalozzi-The Curse of Echo, Ethel Warfield. Normal- The Swineherd, Cyril McAllister.

The dramatic contest will close the spring series of literary contests. It will be at 8 P. M. on the evening of April twenty-fourth. At that con- test the banner and medal will be awarded the winners.

SPECIAL OFFER TO STUDENTS

This coupon and $3.00 may be used to purchase six of our regular $9.00 a dozen photographs with one of our regular $50.00 a dozen photographis, if presented during the scholastic year.

JOHN A. SELBY, Mgr, THE ATELIER

103 West Lexington Street BALTIMORE, MD.

EXCHANGES.

We wish to acknowledge the fol- lowing exchanges:

The Alcohi Mirror, Allegheny County High School, Cumberland, Md.

The Chestertown Transcript, Ches- tertown, Md.

High, The Whistle, Brunswick

Brunswick, Md.

The Washington Collegian, Washi- ington College, Chestertown, Md. The Monthly, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md. The Poly Press, Baltimore Poly, Baltimore, Md.

The Spectator- Federalsburg High School:

Your paper shows a keen and lively interest in school progress. Your exchange department is cer- tainly busy. We suggest, however, that a special column of jokes would greatly improve your paper.

The Owl-Hurlock High:

We find your paper very interest- ing. The article on "The Person- ality of The Handshake" is well written. "Hoots From The Owl" is also a very clever department.

Frederick High Flyer-Frederick:

Greetings on your first birthday. May you celebrate many more. You have a well-organized and lively paper, and one that does you credit.

FRANK A. PERSOHN

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HUNT UP YOUR LAST ORIOLE.

CORRECTIONS.

In the February issue on the first page appeared a sketch of a noted new contributor, Superintendent C. H. LeVitt, of Savanna, Illinois, and following this were to have appeared two articles of his: "Salesmeu With the Soul of Service" and "Don't Be A Trailer." Both of these were printed, but without the author's name attached, and in separate parts of the paper. Subscribers, hunt up your last Oriole, enjoy again the fine philosophy which Mr. Le Vitt ex- pressed so well.

Essex Boys Are Truthful.

George Betz, of Essex, Sixth Grade, who had a poem called "The Prince And I," published in our paper last month, told his teacher that he had help writing the poem and supposed the committee knew this when he gave it to them.

Good for you, George. Send an- other contribution of your very own.

Reserved for STEWART& O.

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Praise youth and it will advance to suc- cess.

THE ORIOLE

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

Vol. 4-No. 7

APRIL, 1925

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

Perhaps not many members of the Dr. Kilpatrick Of Teachers' College, student body have understood what Speaks At Assembly. we have been doing in the last few weeks in a new educational venture. The to-do and bustle in the Elemen- tary School on four recent occasions has concerned the judging of some of the students who have done their

Perhaps the greatest of all the treats given the student body of this year was the address by Dr. Kilpat- rick, of Columbia University Teach- ers' College, Thursday, April 2, 1925. As Miss Tall said in introducing . practice teaching in the rural schools him, he is one of our first ten in education. Often after reading an educational book or other literary work of some author we have wished to see the author and hear him speak. The assembly on Thursday was indeed a dream which came true.

in Baltimore County. Last year the Towson National Bank offered an honor award of $20.00 to the student doing the best teaching in a one or two-room school during his twelve weeks of practice. So far, the com- petition has brought forth four stu- dents, Mr. John Gildea, Mr. Josiah Blacklock, Baltimore County; Miss Lillian Kenlon, Prince George Coun- ty, and Miss Emma Bowman, Car- roll County. The plan has been to

choose

topics

for

demonstration

teaching which are comparable in difficulty of preparation, presenta- tion, and educative results. Miss

Lillian Kenlon taught history in the Third Grade, "Transportation

in Early Maryland"; Miss Emma Bow-

man taught history in the Fifth Grade, "Improvement in Industrial Situations Through Communication -Telephone and Telegraph"; Mr. John Gildea taught history in the Fifth Grade, "Improvement in Agri- culture Through Inventions"; Mr. Josiah Blacklock taught history in the Fifth Grade, "Life on a Southern Plantation, Mt. Vernon as the Type." The instructors who observed and rated the students were Mr. Hulsizer, Miss Brown, Miss Halberg, (all di- rectors of practice) ; Miss Van Bib- ber, Chairman of the History In- structors; Mr. Walther, Chairman of the Georaphy Instructors, and head of the Subject-Matter Department; the grade teachers, Miss Buckley, Mr. Phipps, Miss Fitzgerald, and Miss Lida Lee Tall.

There are four

candidates to be chosen from this term's practice teaching group, namely, Bessie Ar- terburn. Howard County; Evelyn Gibbons, Baltimore County; Grace Jones, Wicomico County, and Anna Morlock, Harford County. The awards will finally be made the first week in June. The Towson National Bank has extended to this school a real challenge, and has put the Rural Department upon its metal to such an extent that it is growing to be the liveliest Deparment in the school.

OUR WISH COMES TRUE.

Dr. Kilpatrick's topic was "Public Opinion." which he divided into sub- topics: (1) What it is and how it acts; (2) How it is built; (3) How it may act badly; (4) What we can do to build it up to work right.

In the development of the topic he said: "Each nation at the begin- ning of the World War tried to get Public Opinion on its side. The in- fluence of public opinion is felt in country, State, county and city. Most of all our own course of actions is guided by public opinion. We follow the course taken by the big men in our field. This is true everywhere, even in school, where the Seniors are the big fellows. The rest of us follow rather blindly and do little thinking of our own.

In the past this was more notice- able than at present, especially with the women. But look at the women now!

When Public Opinion acts at its best we have life at its best. Each one of the group shares the opinion. This gives volume and strength to it. When this works in this way, everyone counts. Democracy is at its best. Remember that the stand that Public Opinion takes governs the way things go. If we stand for the right. our opinion will go for the judge from them. Facts should be right; if for the wrong it will go for the wrong. dug out and weighed. Emergencies should find us with all our faculties alert, and ready to meet them.

Any opinion on a side so that we take active sides, is a response to a situation i. e .- stimulus, response, bond. If the response takes definite lines, then we say that habits have been built. Practices which give

satisfaction build up the opinion. Practices which produce dissatisfac- tion tear down Public Opinion.

The sides we take in Public Opin- ion should be thought out carefully

LIDA LEE TALL, Principal. in advance. Good argument should

govern our acceptance of an opinion, and we should know what causes sat- isfaction. A man you like will be more likely to influence you than one you don't admire. Look behind the source to the argument itself. One Inieof the demagogue is to tell funny stories and put over the rest of his argument to us, because we like his stories. Another method is to appeai to our emotions in a way that will cause us to follow blindly and to disregard the substance.

Repetition, over and over, since childhood, serves to strengthen an opinion, and we are likely to accept it, not because it is right, but because we have had it drilled into us. You hear often of this opinion when someone says "He is a bred in the bone Republican." It is all prob- ably due to the fact that his parents were Republicans and they have forced their opinions on him through repetition of views.

(2) How is public opinion built? Any opinion built on stimulus, re- sponse, bonds, is built like any other such bonds, i. e .- by exercise and effect. We must not follow these

bonds immediately and without knowledge of their source and con- tent, but should weigh them care- fully and not accept blindly every- thing put to us. If there is any flaw in one bond, look each over carefully for other flaws. If the opinion is valid after examination, hold on to it. Be sure, however, that you have good reasons for so doing if you are called upon to defend your opinion. (3) How may people act badly under the influence of Public Opin- ion ?

Always we must look into the source of our opinions. It may have been built by a narrow, selfish people who got satisfaction from its usage. We don't know enough of how the rest of the world thinks or acts. Not knowing all the facts, we must scrutinize newspapers, consider their source of information and learn to

All of us get satisfaction from be- lieving things about the other side. This is especially true in war. Our emotions are stirred up. We do not stop to reason out the matter, but follow blindly the way our emotions point. In school a situation

confronts us. Things that happen in the shcoolroom are likely to ex- cite us and cause us to take sides -

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STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!

April, 1925.

THE ORIOLE

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OUR WISH COMES TRUE.

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and believe those things of the other side which we wish to.

Public Opinion will so shut up a man that he will not even hear or think on the other side. On the other hand it seizes every chance to browbeat the man who does try to think and reason on the other side of the question.

(4) How can we build up Pub- lic Opinion ?

First of all, insist on facts. This will squelch the individual who is trying to impose a wrong principle on us.

Encourage newspapers to speak out.

Read both sides of a question, par- ticularly in an election campaign. Encourage a free discussion of facts. Our duties in rearing the next

generation are manifold. Don't segregate or keep them from hearing the opinions of other people. They should know all sides and sources. Sanction and even encourage friend- ships with the people who think dif- ferently from you. Try to build up in yourself an unselfish regard for other people's ways of thinking. Public opinion should be kept up to high standards. An unselfish re- gard of the public good is needed in every walk of life.

Other things that should be built up are open-mindedness and critical- mindedness. Practice this

with yourself and try to get the children to realize the value of it. One method is to bring to them the fact that different textbooks give differ- ent views of the same question. Give the children as many opportunities as possible to come to their own con- clusions on matters. Teach them to have their own opinions, but to weigh the matter carefully before sides are taken. A good motto would he "More light, less heat." a remark made in a history discussion recently. For "more light" skill is necessary in getting material from books and knowing how to use that material.

America's sin today is mob-mind- edness. Our duty is to try to de- stroy this deterring factor and to huild up open-mindedness. Remem- ber always to build strength of char- acter to stand up for what you think is right only after you have heard the arguments, got the facts of both sides and have weighed the matter care- fully.

HERMAN STOUFFER. Reporter.

FULLERTON.

The Fifth Grade of Fullerton also publishes a paper which usually has several poetic contributions.

In the First Grade the children take charge of the counting inciden- tal to milk supplied at recess.

FIRST GRADE RYHMES.

The First Grade children are in- terested in lullabies. The children were asked to sing or recite the songs their mothers had put them to sleep with.

They found that many of these lullabies are in Moth- er Goose; also that Eugene Field, Christina Rossetti and Robert Louis Stevenson had written poems they had had sung to them, and that they could sing to their dolls and baby

brothers at home. They learned their favorites; those that were set to music, the children learned to sing.

The children found out poems were in "sobedoby's mind" before' they were written or sung. It was suggested they probably had poems in their minds. This brought about original poems. Mother Goose rhymes were used as patterns be- cause they were short and better known by the children as lullabies.

"The First Grade Mother Goose Jack and Jill

Book" is the result:

See-saw, See-saw,

This is the way to marketing.

See-saw, See-saw, This is a very glad holiday. ANNA MAY PYLES.

Sonny, Sonny, Bees make honey .-

ROBER THYDE.

To the barn, to the barn, To see a fat cow; Home again, home again, Jiggety,jow!

Bye, Baby Bunting, The wind blows your cradle

That hangs on the trees. ANNE GORDON STEVENSON.

Little Sally Cinders Sat in a corner Eating her Christmas pie;

Her father came and called her, And told her not to do it. This made little Sally cry. First Grade.

Little Boy Jack, Come mind your sheep;

Don't you cry Or go to sleep. "TINNY SKUN."

Lazy Patch, go to the store To buy a very fat boar. LeROY FILT.

Great "A", Little "a", Bouncing "B"; Go to the store And buy a key.

ROLAND.

Johnny, old soul Had a very bad cold; He called for the nurse, He called for his purse,

But the nurse made him worse.

First Grade.

To the store, to the store, To buy a fat hen.

Back again, back again, Put it in a pen.

First Grade.

Little Jackie Uhler Lost his pretty ruler. ANNE GORDON STEVENSON.

Patter cake, patter cake Baker man;

Make me a cake as good As you can.

MARGARET LAMB.

Fell down the hill. She got up, and she ran home

To tell her mother she had come. ELEANOR SMITH.

THE COURT LUNCH and

ICE CREAM PARLOR Cigars, Candy Soda

MATHIAS GROSS BARBER SHOP

YORK ROAD, Near Chesapeake Avenue TOWSON, MD.

THE STEBBINS-ANDERSON COAL & LUMBER CO.

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

Towson, Md.

Riderwood, Md.

KEENE'S

York Road and Burke Avenue

TOWSON, MD.

THE DULANY VERNAY CO. 339-41 N. Charles St., BALTIMORE, Md.

Leading School Supply House of the State.

THE HERGENRATHER STORES

Headquarters for School Supplies Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens Eversharp and Ingersoll Pencils Stationery, Kodaks, Films Spalding's Sporting Goods Sweaters and Keds

Towson - Maryland

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THE ORIOLE

April, 1925.

ORIGINAL POEMS BY SECOND GRADE.

Lincoln was an honest soul, As honest as could be; He never said an ugly word

To you or to me. -Mervin and Franklin.

When Lincoln was a little boy He didn't have a single toy. -Class.

When Lincoln was a little boy, Helping others was his joy. -Class. 1

He swung his axe with mighty strokes,

Splitting, logs of great big oaks, And all the time telling jokes, He was so much like other folks. -Virginia.

Spring is the loveliest time of the year,

Making people full of cheer.

We are all so glad that Spring has come,

So we can go out and have some fun. The harp gives a bell-like note. In -Mervin. a symphony orchestra all of these in- struments are placed in their own groups.

It is raining all around, How it's falling on the ground So the people can't go to town To see the monkey and the clown. -Class.

Spring is here to bring us cheer, With April showers To bring May flowers. Then comes June bringing flowers so sweet,

And at last the harvest, to make the year complete. -Carolyn.

In summer, when the leaves are green, All the flowers can be seen.

SCHOOL 99 CONTRIBUTES.

The following poem was composed by the children in the Second grade Practice Center at School 99. It contains original spring couplets which the class subsequently com- piled into the finished poem. SPRING.

April brings the rain and showers, To awaken trees and flowers.

trees,

Will soon be blowing in the breeze; And tiny fluffy pussy-willows Look like downy fairy pillows.

Little yellow daffodils Grow upon the grassy hills, And the pansies blue and yellow, Are such pretty bright-eyed fellows.

So the Spring brings sun and showers, ped in a table cloth. To awaken trees and flowers.

EXTRACTS FROM THE GOLDEN FEATHER-

A Magazine Published By The Go- vans School Seventh Grade Prac- tice Center Of The Maryland State Normal School.

MUSIC. The String Instruments Of An Orchestra.

The string instruments of an or- chestra are the violin, the viola, the cello, the harp, and the double bass. The violin is the smallest string in- strument, and is played with a bow. The cello, viola and double bass are also played with a bow. The viola is a larger instrument and has a deeper tone than the violin, which plays the soprano. Next in size

comes the cello. It has a deeper tone than the viola or violin.

It rests on the floor and the player is seated. The double bass plays bass, and the player stands while playing. All the instruments of an orchestra have four strings except the harp, which has numerous strings and is played by plucking with the fingers.

MARIE SEYMOUR, 7-A.

MUSIC APPRECIATION. The Boy And The Birds.

Monday we had a selection on the victrola called "The Boy and the Birds." The theme of the selection was the boy's whistling and the

overhanging the road and the birds swinging and singing in the tangled vines. The birds' singing and the boy's whistling harmonized so beau- tifully that it did not seem as if it were real. The selection ended with the most beautiful melody produced by the birds and the boy.

DOROTHY KILLMAN, 7-B.

A Book Report.

The name of my book is "Betty Zane."

The name of my author is Zane Grey.

I finished my book last week.

The list of important characters Spring's green leaves budding on the is-Betty Zane, Ebenezer Zane, Jon-

athan Zane, Silas Zane, Lewis Wet- zel, Captain Boggs and John Miller. The most interesting part was where Betty dashed out into the furious battle between the pioneers, the great tribe of Indians and Brit- ish, to get some powder two miles from the fort, where the fight was raging. She reached there safely, and brought a keg of powder wrap- She was such an excellent runner she was shot

only in the arm, and did not fall until she reached the fort, which she saved.

The next most interesting part was where Eetty was dared by a British spy to ride her pony over a river in high tide. Lewis Wetzel saw In- dians hiding over the river behind trees waiting for her to come after she was asked by the Tory. He told her not to try such a dare or he would kill her pony.

The character I liked best was Betty Zane, because of her daring and brave ways. RUTH WELLS, 7-A.

An Independent Buyer.

Salesman-"Good morning, I am an agent for the Better Brush Com- pany, and know you will be inter- ested in my brushes."

Buyer-"I am sorry, but I am too busy to stop to see your brushes and hope you will stop some other time."

Salesman-"Well, you see, I only come around twice a year. Wouldn't you like to give an order?"

Buyer-"I am quite sorry, but I have almost everything in brushes I need."

Salesman-"Have you the wall brush or the window cleaner?"

Buyer-"I don't think so. Let me see the window cleaner." Salesman-"This is the window cleaner. It comes in handy any time."

Buyer-"It looks very useful. I

think I'll give you an order." Salesman - "Here is

a small sample brush. Will you give me your name?"

birds' singing. We knew that the boy was walking by the rhythm of Buyer-"My name is Mrs. J. T. Harroll. Will you bring the cleaner as soon as possible?" the selection. It just seemed as if the boy was walking along a coun- try road with the trees and vines Salesman-"I will send it in Feb- ruary. Good day."

ELIZABETH HARROLL, 7-A.

THE ROSE BEAUTY SHOPPE

Manicuring, Hair Dressing, Facial Massaging, Scalp Treatment, Bobbing and Shampooing

York Road and Burke Avenue Telephone Towson 577

Safety Service

Be Thrifty

Save Your Money and Invest With The

BALTIMORE COUNTY BANK Towson, Md.

TOWSON SHOE STORE L. ECKER, Prop. York and Joppa Roads, First Class Shoe Repairing TOWSON, MD.

April, 1925.

THE ORIOLE

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THE ORIOLE

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

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

Managing Editor: ALICE L. MUNN

Business Manngers: JOHN GILDEA EARL PRICE

Advertising Managers: MARGARET ESKRIDGE CORNELIA CANNON MARY LOUISE HOFFMAN

Circulation Managers: ANNA TRAIL CATHARINE HAGAN

PRICE: One Doiiar For Ten Copies.

APRIL, 1925.

MARYLAND DAY AT MARY- LAND STATE NORMAL.

A tableaux prepared and presented hy Senior X and the 7th Grade:

Scene I-The Landing of the Col- onists.

Scene II-Indian War Dance.

Scene Ill-Toleration Act.

Scene IT-Burning of Peggy Stew- art.

Scene X-Washington's Resigna- tion .

Although all of us have seen in such texts as Gambrill's "History of Maryland" pictures of the landing of the Maryland colonists, never before have we actually observed the real disembarking. This took place on March 25, 1925, when we paused from our regular work to do honor to the day; to relive some of the most vital and stirring scenes of our State's history.

The Seventh Grade, living over that period in history, with the help of the Senior sections 1 and II, re- vivified in tableaux those colonial scenes in Maryland history which seemed to them to contribute to Maryland's success and growth.

The Seniors, who worked with the Seventh Grade, appreciated their op- portunity to work directly with the children. and the results of those contacts are far reaching.

The first tableaux represented bar- ter with the Indians, and was se- lected because of the significance of the purchase rather than appropria- tion of land from the Indians-an unprecedented thing.

The second scene was an Indian war dance, which, according to his- tory, followed the paying of the In- dians in English cloth and imple- ments for the new land.

But perhaps the most distinctive esting and the following articles will act in Maryland's History was made show some of the things we are the subject of the third tableaux, The doing.

Toleration Act. This tableaux was symbolical and showed the Spirit of Toleration, welcoming to our State people of different Christian sects.

Scene IV depicted one of the most stirring events of history-the burning of The Peggy Stewart, to show the growing objection to Eng- lish taxation.

In Scene V we saw George Wash- ington resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the American Army. The resignation took place in the State House of the historic town of Annapolis.

As a fitting close, the Girl Scouts led the school in a salute to the flag, while the entire assembly sang the Star Spangled Banner.

CAST:

Scene I-Colonists, Senior 10.

Scene II-Indian War Dance, 7th Grade.

Scene III-Toleration Act.

a-Spirit of Toleration-M. Al- bright.

b .- Religions-Catholic, J. Harry, T. Carmean; Dutch Reformed-M. Smith; Episcopalian-M. Ostendorf; Puritan-P. Linthicum; Quaker-N. Richards.

Scene IV-Burning of Peggy Stew- art-Wm. German; Citizens - C. Morris, G. Murdock.

Scene \-Washington's Resigna- tion-Columbia, Jeanette Heims. Reader-Edna Grammar.

CARLOTTA SILVER, Reporter.

WHO KNOWS?

Who knows the hours we toil away Patiently, silently?

As the Night turns into Day, Or the lengthened shadows fall; As fair Luna holds her sway, Or the vesper's morning call, Each finds us toiling-toiling on- Wearily, drearily.

Mayhap We stop a while to dream With one thought uppermost in

mind;

Into our eyes there steals a gleam

Or Hope-a ray so kind:

A Hope that thru our toil will be

A soul-uplifted, noble, free-

A heart made pure, a mind made strong;

To prove our worth-for that we long! BERTHA SOLOMON, Sr. 9.

THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOL.

The need for a rural school right on the campus, where experiments could be tried out, rural teachers trained, and grouping, alternation of grades and such things could be demonstrated, has long been felt. The one-room school was started this year to fill this need. Our year of pioneering has been intensely inter-

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 77

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