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EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN SPELLING.
Informal tests were given in this experimental work. The method in which they were given was as fol- lows:
I. The word was pronounced, a| sentence given with the word, and the word was pronounced again. The pupils wrote only the word on their paper.
Example: (1) Red. He wore a red cap. Red.
Il. The words were written on the board after the test and the pupils corrected their papers.
III. The misspelled words were recorded.
IV. Study lesson. Pupils miss- ing two or less words in informal test were in Group I for the next les- son. They were given undirected work to do, such as using words in sentences, finding words that rhymed with those words, and words that were derived from those words.
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3. Pupils wrote word several times on paper.
Each word was drilled on in the above way. After which, the list of words was given out to the pupils to see if they had learned the words missed.
4. On the third day the informal test was repeated, the same method being used as in the first day's test. Criticism of the Work.
The first test given in the experi- mental work seemed rather easy, and there were a number of perfect papers. In the second test not as many pupils had perpeft papers. Each test seemed a little more diffi- cult for the pupils.
The drill work seemed to help
those that missed over two words and when the test was repeated all but about two pupils who are especi- ally poor in spelling had perfect
papers. I have especially noticed the improvement of a few pupils who were poor in spelling at first. There- fore, I think this experimental work has been beneficial to the pupils.
(Signed ) MILDRED SCOTT,
PENMANSHIP IN FOURTH GRADE.
During the last few weeks the Fourth Grade has had a delightful and interesting time with penman- ship. They have an individual pro- gress chart which indicates the pro- gress of each child in writing. You will find the chart made up of green and orange blocks, which the chil- dren selected for March and April. The chart represents the number of tests they have passed in each month.
In every class we have followed out the Courtis and Shaw method of hand-writing. We spend from five to eight minutes for practice on the test we are going to take. At this time we remember to do the follow- ing:
1-Write the word once.
2-Compare with that the
book. 3-Are all of the letters on the line? '4-Have all of the letters the same size. 5-Are all the short letters the same size? 6-Are all the tall letters the same size
7-Look carefully to see if all the letters are well made. 8-Do you sit in a healthy and comfortable position ?
9-Practice letters that you can not make well, then write word to see if you have improved.
10-Write the word a number of times so that you can write it quickly and well, and make the standard rate and quality for your grade.
In the last few minutes of this I period we take our test. We are
allowed three minutes for each test and then we write the rate or num- ber of words on their paper.
The pupils in the 4th grade are keeping their own Daily Record Card. On their Record Cards you will find indicated the date, rate, quality and number of days it took to pass a cer- tain lesson. The children are try- ing each day to beat their own re- cord.
LOUISE EVANS, 4th Grade. Student Teacher.
"THEATRE."
Producers see no need for critics. Critics see no need for actors.
Actors see no need for play- wrights.
Playwrights see no need for Pro- ducers.
All four see a great need for audi- ences. -Black & Blue Jay.
Flap-I hear Jack has a new siren for his car.
Per-Why, what became of the
Student Teacher. blonde one?
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THE ORIOLE
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April, 1925.
YE MAY FETE.
TO OUR GOOD FRIENDS:
Ye eleventh of Maye hath been appointed for revels by ye Schollers of ye Maryland State Normal School at Towson-that being ye daye when her most gracious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth-whom Heaven preserve- hath chosen to visit ye new and stately Halle of Richmond.
At half past two o'clock all will gather on ye North Green, where, to the sound of gay musicke the revellers will come to honour in man- ners fitting ye glorious month of Maye.
We earnestly hope that it will please our Goode Friends to attend. YE MARYLAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
P. S .- Should clouds hang dark or should rain fall on ye eleventh daye ye revels will wait for ye next faire daye.
The school is already alive with the spirit of May and in every class preparations are going on for the fete, which should be a joyous and picturesque affair.
The Order Of Assembly Upon Upon the Green.
I-The Master and Mistress of the Green come out to see that all is ready. Two marshalls await their orders. With them come the best singers-gentles all, dressed in their finest. The fool and the town crier come too, with drummers. fiddlers and pipers.
Gay summoning. Music by the orchestra.
The Town Crier announces each group. Banner bearers precede each group with drummers, fifers other music.
II-Villagers come gally singing. The fool, under direction of the Mas- ter and the Mistress and helped hy
the Marshalls show the villagers tumblers, jugglers, beggars, pedd- Iers-a most motely and picturesque
their places, after they have bowed. ! This same procedure will prevail as crew, come to the sound of tahors cach group comes upon the green. and drums.
Song-Cornish May Song.
IV-Robin Hood comes on horse- hack escorted by his companions and followed by his gay hand of outlaws carrying bows and arrows, all ready for the sports. Robin Hood song- introducing characters in panto- mime.
V-Maid Marian on horseback, with many maids in walting, arrive while the assembly sings. Same Dream."
music.
They dance and sing as they come. The hobby horses cavort and canter merrily, unable to stand quietly in So gay a throng. Song-Morris Dance tune-"Come Ye Young Men."
VII-Shepherds and Shepherdesses with little shepherds and shepherd- esses are the next to arrive. They have left their sheep upon the hills. They sing "Fair A Sight As Ere Was Seen."
VIII-Next come villagers with the May Pole, borne aloft on the shoulders of stalwart foresters or mayhaps drawn upon a gaily decor- ated wagon. The orchestra plays the May Pole song.
IX-May Pole dancers come hand in hand, two hy two, all carrying brauches of the May. They sing the May Pole song-"Come Lasses and Lads."
X-Milk Maids lead their most ex- cellent cow bedecked with flowers. The Milk Maids carry gay buckets or milking stools. They sing as they come "Mary, Molly and I."
XI-Millers who desire to be near those fair milk maids, follow in eager procession. They sing "There Was A Maid Went to the Mill."
XII-Chimney Sweeps with Black Sal and Jack-in-the-Green run upon the green in grotesque fashion. They sing "Chimney Sweep Song."
XIII-Sword Dancers, all village men, come ready for their part in the fete. Drummers lead the way.
XIV-Gypsies steal in furtively and slip into the assemblage. The assembled multitude in high glee sings "The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies."
XV-Strolling Players who will enact the comic part of "Midsum- mer's Night Dream," bring with and them the properties for their play. Drummers lead the way followed by banners telling all the world about this wondrous play.
XVI-Strolling singers, revellers,
XVII-Morris Dancers with the Jester, the Hobby and the Saint
The Order of Events Upon the Green. I-After all are assembled soft, beautiful music is heard and Titania, Oberon, Puck, and myriads of wee fairies flit out from behind trees. They dance lightly over the green and take places near the dias, some on the dias, others on the ground, some in trees if practicable. Fairy music from "Midsummer's Night
II-A group of dances show in pantominic the conquest of Winter, judgment.
The fairies may help in this adven- ture. Summer gaily finds her place on the dias near the Queen of May.
III -- The Queen of May is crowned with ceremony fitting. The fairies throw flowers upon her. Robin Hood stands near at hand.
IV-The May Pole is raised with due ceremony, while all the multi- tude cheers.
V-Dances about the May Pole are danced by the May Pole dancers, great and small. The gentles, not to be outdone, dance English Couu- try Dances.
VI-The Morris Dancers in high glee.
VII-Shepherds and Shepherdesses dance while hells in the distance tell of their absent sheep.
VIII-Millers and Milk Maids dance.
IX-Chimney Sweeps dance.
X-The Strolling Players here en- act their play-the comic part from Shakespeare's "Midsummer Dream."
Song - "Strawberry Fair"-solo and chorus.
Flower girls, who are village maidens, go through the crowd dur- ing the song and sell their May favors.
At the conclusion of the song, Muffin Men, Pie Men, and other pedd- lers and revellers go about the crowd with their wares; gypsies tell for- tunes. The peddlers have a song which they will sing as they start out to peddle.
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EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN GRADES 3, 4 AND 5.
In October, Miss Agnes Snyder gave a series of tests in arithmetic, spelling and reading to the Third, Fourth and
Fifth Grades. The scores were tabulated and given care- ful study. Each class was divided into two groups of equal ability. One group was termed the experi- mental group, the other, the con- trolled group. The work of the con- trolled group is directed entirely by teacher judgment rather than by the results of the scientific tests. For three days each week the experimen- tal group is given work in the tested subjects to meet its needs as shown by the tests. The experimental group is left to the student teachers who follow out directions sent each week hy Miss Snyder. At the close of the school year all children will be tested again to ascertain whether the work based on scientific test re- sults has led to a greater improve- ment than that directed by teacher
CAROLINE READ.
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VI-Morris Dancers with jester and hobby come in groups of eight. by Summer. Winter is driven away.
III-Next come Trumpeters; Her- alds with proud banners; Marshalls George come with the most fear- with stately tread; Queen Elizabeth some dragon in their wake. They come to the music of their bells and a Morris Dance tune. under a gay awning and many cour- tiers and ladies. March Cortege by the orchestra.
ALEEX STATE TLA M I WASON
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. 8
MAY, 1925
Published Monthly by Students of Maryland State Normal School, Towsen, Md.
FOUNDER'S DAY COMMEMO- RATION.
On May 24th, 1925, the Maryland State Normal School celebrated the one hundredth birthday anniversary of its founder Dr. McFadden Alex- ander Newell. The Honorable J. Charles Linthicum, an alumnus of the school, presided and gave his tribute as former student to his mem- ory of Dr. Newell. He pictured him as one who never shirked his duty and who always maintained a warm personal interest in each individual student.
Albert E. Winship, editor of "The Journal of Education," a very inti- mate friend for many years of Dr. Newell, gave "A Personal Apprecia- tion." He pointed out to us how far in advance of the time this first principal was in his educational ideals. This man had the vision in' 1866 of what had really come to pass in our day Dr. Winship told us how [ zenship, the main factor of which is glad he was to be able to speak of his friend in that school which he founded.
The principal address of the day was delivered by Dr. William Mc- Andrew, Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools. Dr. McAndrew used the Professional Prospectus of the first school catalogue (1866) as the basis for his talk. He took us back to the days of the new republic and told us why we have public educa- tion. According to the ideals of Washington and Jefferson, education is not for the sole purpose of gain- ing knowledge, but for the purpose of making good ctizens. Dr. Mc- Andrew thinks educators have lost the real vision of education when they say "Study hard and I'll
give you a prize." We should not set one student over the other
on the basis of scholarship, but we held in the new dormitory, Rich- mond Hall.
should teach all to contribute to the community according to his ability, and to lead the generous life rather than the life for self. Education is for the purpose of socializing, not for individualizing. Dr. McAndrew gave a
bit of personal history. Quoting his old school yell: "Tink, Tank, Tink, Tank,
Who are we? Who are we? We're the class of eighty-three."
As he looks back he thinks they should not have glorified themselves, but the tax-paying citizen, and re- vised their yell into-
"Who are you? Who are you?
You're the man Who's putting us through."
Another thing Dr. McAndrew humorously objected to is the con- ferring of degrees upon people who merely have the time and money to secure them. "When colleges have their reunions they dress up their graduates, who sit on a platform and say, 'Look at us, we're educated, you ain't.' 'Why not call us Sir or Count instead of Doctor?' It would be following out the same idea and sound so much better."
Dr. McAndrew brought us a real message when he stressed "Demo- cratic Education." He told us, as the teachers of future citizens, to keep constantly before us the true American ideal of education, the good of the people as a whole, and to use our profession as a means of material and personal advancement. The keynote of the entire address was the need for a truly democratic education that makes for good citi-
a broad non-sectarian religious spir- it. He interpreted that spirit to be the same as that of true religion which is to visit the afflicted in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. He be- lieves the school is a proper place to teach morality and to teach it directly. In fact, the whole address was one of inspiration to his entire audience.
Among those present were Miss Tall, Principal of the school; mem- bers of the faculty; Albert S. Cook, State Superintendent of Schools; Dr. Henry S. West, members of the State Board of Education, and Baltimore City Board of Education; Alumni and members of the present student body.
After the exercises in the Admin- istration Building, a social hour was
LILLIAN KENLON, Sr. 4.
Dear Mr. Editor-Will you please read the enclosed poem carefully and return it to me with your candid
criticism as soon as possible, as I have other irons in the fire.
Dear Sir-Remove the irons and insert the poem .- Bison.
It's strange how lucky some things are."
Sighed poor bald-headed Bopp;
"I wish I were a motor car-
It has mohair on top."-Belle Hop
HONOR SOCIETY FOR M. S. N. S.
Monday, April 27, was a Red Let- ter Day at the Maryland State Nor- mal School. Many students who had worked diligently since the be- ginning of their Normal career found there was a reward for the faithful.
Miss Tall announced the names of those students having a general av- erage of "B" or over in their schol- astic standing. These students will be eligible to become members of the Honor Society to be established in this school.
Several plans for the forming of this society have been considered, but no definite decision has yet been reached.
The following students were in the lead May 1. It may be that some names will be withdrawn and some added before the end of the scho- lastic year.
The following Seniors have the highest scholarship. All of these have an average grade ranging be- tween B and A.
Bessie Arterburn, Sr. 11; Frances Lord, Sr. 15; Evelyn Ireland,, Sr. 2; Elsie Munker, Sr. 7; Cora R. Bowen, Sr. 6; Gertrude Bachman, Sr. 7; Wilhelmina Gluth, Sr. 7; Anna Trail, Sr. 9; Martha Seaman, Sr. 10; Lyda Keating, Sr. 15; Parepa Linthicum, Sr. 10; Regina Sheppard, Sr. 11; Caroline C. Brown, Sr. 13; Hope Greenwell, Sr. 4; Lillian Ken- lon, Sr. 4; Ruth Clagett, Sr. 8; Eliz- abeth Morrison, Sr. 9; Evelyn Gib- bons, Sr. 11; Katherine Hurt, Sr. 11, Helen Stapp, Sr. 11; Mary Louise Klein, Sr. 10; Alice Rich,, Sr. 11; Isabel Boone, Sr. 12; Marion Wat- kins, Sr. 13; Beatrice Cronise, Sr. 13. The following Juniors have the highest scholarship. All of these have an average grade ranging be- tween B and A.
Grace Lyons, Jr. 13; Edna Caro- lyn Rau, Jr. 1; Helen M. Feaster, Jr. 4; Mrs. Allan Baker, Jr. 6; Leah Evelyn Minnich, Jr. 8; Emily Gib- son, Jr. 10; Margaret Breitling, Jr. 6; Sophie Mindel, Jr. 3; Mabel Poh- ler, Jr. 5; Louise Siehler, Jr. 7; Lillian Waldschmidt, Jr. 7; Ethel Warfield, Jr. 7; Hazel E. Jenkins, Jr. 8; Helen Harmon, Jr. 9; Evelyn Pusey, Jr. 10; Helen Tindall, Jr. 10.
C. BROWN, R. HAMMOND.
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May, 1925.
THE ORIOLE
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RICHMOND HALL; A MEMOR- IAL TO MISS SARAH E. RICHMOND.
Richmond Hall has been most fit- tingly named for Miss Sarah E. Rich- mond, whose life work for the school cannot be too long nor too well re- membered. For considerably more than half a century Miss Richmond's life was an integral part of that of the Maryland State Normal School. A Marylander, born in 1843, she was the honor member of the first class to be graduated by her Alma Mater, then located in a small building on Baltimore Street. Mr. M. A. Newell, first principal of the school, recog- nized the extraordinary character and ability of the young woman, and placed her immediately on his facul- ty. From that time until her death on March 4, 1921, she was intimately associated with and devoted to the school and all things appertaining to it.
Although Miss Richmond was con- tinuously a class-room teacher from that early time almost to the very end of her life, she did not cease to he a student. Possessed of an un- usually keen intelligence and a love of culture, she continued to pursue various branches of learning, foreign languages, ,history, education.
After many years of service de- served promotion came to reward her fine spirit and unexampled work. First, she was made Vice-Principal and later attained to the greatest honor of her life, the principalship of her beloved Alma Mater.
To her ability and her effective- ness as a teacher hosts of her stu- dents today bear eloquent testimony. Yet her influence did not end there, for to Normal School graduates, ahove all other impressions of the school, stands that of Miss Rich- mond-the warmth and sincerity of her friendliness toward the students, and the sense of her loyalty toward the school.
To the young student coming for the first time to the Normal School Miss Richmond may have seemed very distant, very formidable. Of great natural dignity and much re- serve, possessed of a keen, penetrat- ing eye, set in rugged, strong fea- tures, she was not easy to approach. Yet youth possesses penetration, and her warm sincere heart beating con- stantly for the school, her fine im- partiality in dealing with problems, her personal sympathy for those in trouble, and her unfailing sense of justice-these qualities came soon to be recognized and appreciated. The outgoing graduate thus carried with her a very definite feeling that in Miss Sarah E. Richmond she had not only found at all times a wise counsellor, but forever and
true and personal friend. These dis- ciples of Miss Richmond's, filled with her zeal for service, her high ideals and her sense of duty went forth year after year from the Nor- mal School into the four quarters of Maryland, until her name became synonymous with educational force and progress wherever her gradu- ates went.
One of the great ambitions cher- ished by Miss Richmond was to live to see the institution with which she was connected with a dormitory of its own located in the country. This was her oft expressed wish. No one was ever more truly hospitable, and loving young children as she did, it was exceedingly painful to her to think of them with cramped, uncom- fortable living quarters; and so she set her mind and her heart to ac- complish this end. She literally he- came a politician, she enlisted in the campaign her hundreds of friends and finally after years of toil, had the happiness to see her dreams ful- filled. How happy it made her!
And so is it not fitting that there should be a Richmond Hall? Is it not wonderful to reflect that the name of so true a friend of youth should he thus forever associated with friendly hospitability to young girls who had they been born a few years before would have known, ad- mired and loved this truly great woman.
LENA C. VAN BIBBER, History Department.
Onr Study of the Aquarium.
At Miss Guider's practice center, School No. 54, the children liave some minnows and are very much interested in them. After they found out I too liked them, they asked whether they might study them in nature study so they could learn to know something about aquatic life.
The result has been that we have studied minnows, goldfish, aquarium snails and plants and have visited the pond at Wyman's Park. The children have learned how to care for these often mistreated and tor- tured members of the finny world, and many have balanced aquariums and do voluntary outside reading about these creatures of the water. EMMA KOCH, Steuent Teacher.
WILLIAM KOERNER
A shave? Just step this way, sir. A hair cut? Take that chalr. You wish to phone? You may, sir. A shoe-shine? Over there. A match? The cigar stand, sir.
A manicure? This way.
That girl will hold your hand, sir.
ever a Thanks. Call again. Good-day.
THE NORMAL LITERARY SO. CIETY INAUGURATES A SCHOLARSHIP LOAN.
April 24, 1925.
Dear Miss Tall:
No one could be with us tonight for the first time and not realize that the Literary Societies are dynamic, a great factor in our Normal School lives.
Many times this year, members of my Society have asked me: "What are we going to do?" As our song says, "A longing to do, each Nor- malite true."
And so in order to direct this energy into worthwhile channels, we have decided to originate a Normal Literary Society Scholarship Loan.
It is with great pleasure that we, Normals, entrust to you, Miss Tall, this one hundred dollar fund, with the anticipation that next year the Junior members of our Society will carry it forward, increasing the sum and thus from year to year make it a living traditiou.
In thinking over the qualifications for the recipient of this scholarship, we offer just three: (1) That it go to a Junior; (2) That she must have been of high scholarship and a lead- er for the right in the high school from which she comes, and (3). that she enter as an honor member of the Normal Society, ready from the first to show her true loyalty to us and to our Alma Mater.
Very sincerely yours, HOPE GREENWELL, Pres. of N. L. S.
MATHIAS GROSS BARBER SHOP
YORK ROAD, Near Chesapeake Avenu
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 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
May, 1925.
ENTHUSIASM.
"There is nothing in all the world but life! Even death is only life acting inversely."
One of the best ways to obtain success is to be full of a radiant energy. We are judged every mo- ment by the law of whether we are "the quick or the dead." There are
unlimited numbers of dead ones everywhere, and these make the great army in failure. You may go among the unemployed of the loafing world, and you will find that the quickness of spirit is lacking in thèm; they are dead to opportuni- ties, dead to enthusiasm; dead in vital understanding and dead to everything that will hold them fast to the great pulsing life current, everywhere waiting their own con- scious contact.
We can find people everywhere who take nothing out of life and who put nothing into it. If it were not that the hand of "Providence feed- eth them they would perish from the earth. There are many people who live in all the beauty of this earth, and yet are blind and deaf to all that nature's voice is saying. "The great, wide, beautiful, wonder- ful world, with the wonderful waters around it curled, and the wonderful grasses on its breast" are nothing at all to the lives and eyes of the dead ones - they have no value-as friends, companions or lovers, for all these associations call for the power of sight and sense to make them of value; they have no real worth any- where and are a drag on every situ- ation because they have no power of response to any sort of external stimulation within them. But these failures, within their own be- ing, lying dormant, have the possi- bilities of life and the success that comes from this life.
It is our own life stream which rushes us on past valleys, hills and mountains to deliver our possessions to ourselves, and "the one who does not generate within himself the divine energy of enthusiasm is one with the death of his own desires."
It takes a very strong heart to al- ways keep enthused in the face of prolonged disappointment and con- tinued opposition, but it must be done if we want to conquer. There are hours in all business undertak- ings, in all friendships, must pass along aided alone by "our soul's white light," when, as Kip- ling says: "There's nothing in us to hold on but the power (enthusiasm) which says 'hold on!' "
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