Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 85

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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Office: Cut Flower and Plant Dept. 5315 York Road

Nursery: Gittings and Bellona Aves. Govans, Baltimore, Maryland.

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THE ORIOLE

June, 1925.

DO WE HAVE RURAL CLUB TONIGHT?

"Do we have Rural Club tonight?" How often that query rang through the halls Wednesday nights! Yes, we had those meetings, many of them, but most of the memories of Rural Club days that we shall carry away with us will be the fun and frolic that we had together. Our first frolle was rather disastrous, for we gained the reputation of keeping late hours, but how could we help it? Nobody puts faith in a bus, even if it is carrying the won- cerful Rural Club on a "huskin' bee."

But then, we somewhat moderated our reputation by giving three par- ties, one at the beginning of each term, to the teachers of the practice centers and the students going out for their new experiences. These parties were well attended, especially the one held just before the Christ- mas holidays, for everyone was curi- ous to know what presents the facul- ty were receiving, and how they "took" the jokes played on them. Needless to say that the curious ones were satisfied, and the recipients were too, we hope!

Not content with entertaining only the "favored few," we gave the movie "The Boy of Flanders," fea- turing Jackie Coogan. The proceeds swelled our treasure store to a great extent, but. money mad, we decided to make more. The result of that decision was our two plays, "The Mirage" and "Neighbors," under the direction of Mr Hulsizer, and he was certainly patient with his tempera- mental casts. We hope the audience had as much fun in seeing the per- formances as the cast had in giving them, especially the night we took

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Despite the fact that Mr. Bishop says qualifications for Rural Club membership should be "hay seedy and country jakish" ways, we have never lacked applicants. We showed the candidates what joining our noble order meant as we initiated them into its deep, dark secrets, and we are glad to say that every entrant "stuck to the last" in spite of the treatment he received. Maybe it was our hikes which drew students into the club, but we are sure that an in- terest in rural work must have been a drawing card too.

We are interested in our work, and we are certainly proud of our- club. Not every organization can boast of our advisory council, for it is the first of its kind. It is com- posed of twelve members, leading educators and pioneer thinkers in the field of rural work in our State, and next year they are going to add heaps of "pep" to our meetings.

Now the Rural Club is just a memory to many of us, but it is a happy and unforgettable Sanitary Meat Market one, and FRUITS VEGETABLES

next year we may find ourselves wishing we might go "to Rural Club" on Wednesday nights.

B. C., '25.

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June, 1925.

THE ORIOLE

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A STATE SUPERVISOR OF

SCHOOLS SENDS A MESSAGE.

A Warning To Applicants.

Hamilton Wright Mabie says, "There is no mystery about success, no intervention of genii or fairies, no luck or fortune. Luck, fate, for- tune, and chance are words which have no place in the speech of great men. A man's luck is in himself, his chance is in his ability to get something to do, and his fortune in the skill and energy with which he does it. When it is said that a man is lucky, it means that he has brains and uses them; when it is said that things come his way, it means that he has gone after things."

Oftentimes applicants for posi- tions, teaching as well as others, are entirely unaware of the reasons for their failure to be appointed. They feel that they have been discrimin- ated against, and decide that it was hard luck, they had no "pull," it was because of politics, their religion, their club affiliations, their family connections, or some similar cause. No one tells them just why they were not chosen for the position and so they go on harboring bitterness and blame against the employer, and spreading the same among their friends and acquaintances. The real reasons, when known, often seem very trivial to the applicant, but in the estimation of the employ- er are indications of undesirable qualities. Many of them could have been remedied so easily, had the ap- plicant "only known," but it is the fact that he did not know which means most to the employer.

Written applications are subject to various kinds of scrutiny deter- mined by the requirements of the particular position, and the likes and dislikes peculiar to the employer. Applications are often not even read when written on tablet paper, or scented paper, or pink paper, but are thrown into the wastebasket by the man or woman who is particular about his correspondence. Applica- tions which are long, and rambling, and unbusinessike in their content are put into the pile "not to be con- sidered." Misspelled words dis- qualify some, poorly constructed sen- tences cause some to he discarded, and women who sign themselves Mai, or Edythe, or Mayme, run the risk of being met with the disfavor of matter-of-fact men who dislike such affectations. Surnames convey a great deal of information concern- ing applicants, and there are many and strange reactions to them.

Nearly all of the risks one runs through written applications can be eliminated by applying in person, I'M GOING hut personal applications are fraught iTo with dangers similarly trivial and THE PROM!

equally effective. Personal appear- ance means a great deal to most em- ployers and an applicant may be too fat or too thin, too tall or too short to meet the fancy of some. Dress plays an important role, too, and re- quires only a bit of forethought and care on the part of the applicant. Cleanliness and neatness are essen- tial, showiness and the extreme in fashion are inappropriate and not excused. An applicant who talks too much and stays too long annoys, and one who does not talk enough makes no impression. One who is unde- cided and vacillating concerning the position offered him is as apt to fail as the one who is too sure and ex- pects the vacancy to be made to fit him.

An unhappy expression, a rasping voice, a mannerism in speech or in behavior, a peculiar physical handi- cap, or an unconscious telltale re- mark, has causel many an applicant the loss of an appointment, the rea- son for which he has never under- stood.

The personal preferences of em- ployers, while playing a large part, can not always be met by applicants and need not cause them much con- cern; but the qualities noted by most employers, those of pleasing personality, appropriateness of dress, indications of fitness for the position at hand, conformity to the conven- tions of proper form in personal and written address, etc., need to be re- garded by every applicant as abso- lutely essential to hiis being consid- ered, along with other applicants, for the position he wishes.

To quote Hamilton Wright Mabie again, "The world looks very hard to the young man; all the places are filled; everybody is preoccpied, and there seems to he no chance for the newcomer. Let him show a little heroic quality, however, and men are quick to make a place for him; let him put energy, pluck, integrity, and intelligence into his work, and doors begin to open under the pres- sure of his strong hand."

M. THERESA WIEDEFELD.

Assistant Supervisor of

Elementary Schools.

Resolution.

Instead of

Paying my

Dorm rent,

Getting a

New suit,

Settling my

Frat dues,

Squaring my

Laundry accts.

Meeting my

Cleaning bills,

And tipping

Waitresses ----

LEIF ERICSON.

Adapted To Grammar Grades. (8th Grade).

Slowly the murky mist, stirred by a plaintively sighing breeze, began to lift. In the east, through the rapidly disseminating darkness, a solitary streak of pink appeared, heralding to sky and sea the proph- ecy of the golden dawn that was imminent. As the first of the sun's shafts tentatively penetrated the languidly rising mist, the tranquil sea revealed itself. Sparkling sap- phire were its depths, and not a ripple marred its strangely quiescent bosom.

Growing fresher, the breeze began to fill the flapping sails of the tiny vessel, as yet a shadowy phantom in the still, uncertain light. It became quite light; the sun diffusing the ship with its motherly rays. How-

the ever, with the exception of helmsman who stood with rock-like immovability in the stern, and the lookout who dozed intermittently at his post in the bow, not a sign of life or animation was there to be seen aboard the little vessel.

Awakening from his doze with a start, the lookout-a great bearded fellow-yawned, stretched, glanced hopefully at the gorgeously colored sky, and hegan to make his custom- arily futile search of the horizon. His keen glance went north, south, and then west. No, not a thing in sight save the shimmering calm of the sea and -. But wait! What was that speck on the western hori- zon? Was it another mirage to mock him? He rubbed his eyes to drive the last vestige of sleep away and with bated breath peered again. A moment he stood thus, tense, al- most frozen to his position, and then a tremendous shout rolled from his lips, reverberating and echoing, through the ship: "Land ho!"

An instant of silence greeted the electrifying announcement and then, for the better part of a minute, pandemonium reigned. Excited

queries, ejaculations, fervent songs of trinmph, all rose upon the air as the freshly roused seamen rushed upon the deck. Then suddenly they became solemnly mute. From the tiny cabin or hold of the vessel,, a tall, fair-headed man appeared. With a few quick strides he reached the prow of the vessel and gazed long at the rapidly growing speck in the west. Then, his face glowing, he turned, slowly sunk to his knees -the men following his example- and bowed his head in earnest and humble thanksgiving. The man was Leif Ericson. His boyhood dream and ambition of sailing toward the setting sun to discover and explore new lands, was about to crystalize.

But let us look back a few years. (Continued on Page 12)

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THE ORIOLE

June, 1925

LEIF ERICSON.

(Continued from Page 11)

Young Leif came from good Norse or Viking stock; his father being Eric the Red who, emigrating from Iceland, discovered and settled in Greenland. Born among a hardy and restless race of people who had an unconquerable thirst for adven- ture, Leif began, quite early, to avidly absorb the stories of what constituted the chief topics of dis-

Before he was fourteen, fully in- fected with the fever of adventure, he determined that he, too, would drink from the noble cup of explor- ation and adventure. Some years went by and then, one day, our ad- venturer, whose name was Bjarni. arrived with his Viking ships and told of a strange shore he had seen While lost in a fog. This caused a great deal of interest and excitement among the people. Feeling that his opportunity had presented itself, Leif, now a grown man of remark- able stature, went to his father and received the reluctant permission that was to enable him to attempt to discover the land Bjarni had seen. So, upon a bright and warm day in the year 1000 A. D., with a small vessel and thirty-five of the boldest seamen, he sailed out of the harbor of Bratthalid, Greenland, on his mo- mentous voyage,

Buffeted and almost drowned hy fierce wave and wind, Leif, with a fire of determination that was con- suming and a grin of courage that was indominitable, held his tiny vessel to her

course. The great fortitude that he exhibited through- out the days and nights of unremit- ting toil and hardships knows no parallel. With the

true Viking tenacity of purpose and undeviating perseverance, he sailed on, ever westward. Ah, wbat triumph must have been his, on the fateful morn- ing ,when he at last set eyes on his hard-earned objective.

Little did Leif realize when he went ashore that day that he was the first European to set foot on the great continent that we today know as America. Finding the land to be

almost totally covered with flat stones, Leif and his men named it Helluland and without delaying, de- parted southward until they reached a place where a beautiful river emptied its azure waters into the sea. Here the Vikings decided, was an ideal place to spend the winter. Stores were landed, huts erected for the cold season and then the Norse- men proceeded to explore the coun- try.

L. VAN BIBBER.

Strange, Indeed, was this land. To a man, they had spent their lives The man who is a vegetable farm- er and has a billiard table and takes yourself. You alone know the among bleak and loftily forbidding good care of hoth is really the only truth. Does a master get pleasure mountains where the snow was deep |person who minds his peas and from turning out an inferior article?

and fell the year round. In this cues .- Stevens Stone Mill.

LIVING AND LEARNING.

(Written for State Oratorical Contest)

I hold before you here two courses that life offers you to follow. On your choice depends your happiness. It is not that the decision can be made once and for all, and that you can then go your way in peace. Ever there is a right way and a wrong way, and between them it is for you to choose: It is not oppor- tunity: that is a mere detail in na- ture's plan than all can seize if they so desire; it is not fate; that is only a failure's excuse for his faults. It is the call of Courage, Honor, Worth; heed it and you have made your own opportunities and deter- mined your own fate.

How many among you tonight have felt that life it not worth liv- ing, that there is too much trouble for the pleasure derived, that the scheme of things is all wrong? How many have thought that they would like to choose the easy way; cut loose from it all, its work and pain?

If I were a minister tonight de- livering a sermon, I think I would take the Old Testament and turn to the nineteenth chapter of the first book of Kings. There I would find my text in this verse, "And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and said unto him, "What doest thou here Elijah?"

(All Rights Reserved) That we may live as we should, THE SEABURY PRIZES WON. resist temptation, laugh at work, and be cheerful in adversity, the most important thing for all of us is the The School Citizenship formation of character. You cannot League tell when you first began to think. has for a number of years offered However, this is certain, when you prizes, called the Seabury Prizes, to first began to think, you began to students of Normal Schools the form character. Character is world over. Every year for many'thought deposited in some manner First, then, we must years our students have competed in on the soul. this contest, and on several occas- learn to think purely and rightly be- ions prizes have been awarded for fore we can live correctly. In this, oru work as follows:

1919-Lola Ward, Senior

the good will of others is no proof. Class, Every person, however much he may be losing from his reputation is add-

3rd prize.

1920-Grace Tull, Academic Class, ing to his character. Between these 2nd prize.

two there is a vast difference. The one is external, the other internal. You may think corruptly and yet appear well. But you cannot think corruptly and actually

do well. Character is durable, everlasting. It

1924- Katharine Gibson. Senior Class, 1st prize; Harry Batchelor, determines whether or not a man can consider his own life a success.

Senior Class, 3rd prize.

This year about twelve students The Almighty never looks at a have sent in essays with the hope of man's reputation to see what it is. upholding the standard set by their He searches his heart for the truth. fellows.

In the sight of God, as a man think- eth, so he is. And you alone share with him the secret. . Among mor- tals, you are the ultimate judge of

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land were great forests, where grew myriads of beautiful flowers. Here gaily colored birds sang melodiously among the trees. Many strange ani-

mals were found and so delighted were they with the profusion of wild grapes that abounded every- where that they named the country Vinland. Some people today think Leif's "Vinland" to be northern New England.

The Vikings spent a long peaceful winter in Vinland and then, with the cussion-discovery and exploration. advent of the welcome spring, they loaded their ship with some of the strange delicacies they had found and prepared to return to their own familiar shores. Once home, they received a welcome that was royal. Although the intrepid Leif, or Leif the Lucky as he was acclaimed upon his arrival, never again sailed to the forest-clad coast of Vinland, his won- drous tales aroused so much interest that his brother Horstein and others werc soon sailing to continue his ex- płorations. For a period of nine or ten years the Norsemen maintained settlements in Vinland until forced to abandon them because of the ob- durate and persistent hostility of the Indians. Leif, the Sagos or legends of Iceland that have preserved this story, tell us, lived to a ripe old age, admired, honored and revered by the people.

Thus, the story of the man who painted the first color on the canvas of our history, draws to a close.

ALBERT SILVERMAN, Sr. 8.

1921-Lucile Heath, Senior Class, 1st prize; Grace Tull, 2nd prize. 1922 - Cornelia Wilson, Senior Class, 2nd prize.

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THE ORIOLE

June, 1925

LIVING AND LEARNING.

(Continued from Page 12)

Perfection is his aim. His reward, seeing it and knowing it is good. It is the game that counts, knowing that you have played by the rules, and played to a finish. If you go down, let it be with colors flying and with the satisfaction of knowing that you did your best.

When our forefathers were open- ing up the vast reaches of a conti- nent and laying the foundation for the greatest civilization ever known, did they stop to question what other men would say? While they were wresting a bare living out of the wilderness, were they asking them- selves, "Will others see our work and praise ?" No. It was the spir- it of man in them that wouldn't be conquered. They might have died with their faces toward the West, but Heaven or Hell couldn't have turned them back.

Friends, there is satisfaction in work well done, that is its own re- ward, and beside which the plaudits of the multitude are small indeed. And for the defeated, there is no consolation like the inward whisper, "I did my best." But nature has so moulded us that we cannot stop there. Before us shines this inspir- ation, "You have another chance!" And though you feel that hope is gone, that the end has come, you must rise perforce, strengthened by experience, fired by a desire to sur- pass, encouraged by the hope held before you, and tackle your prob- lem again. You will not be num- bered with the defeated. You are still in the ranks of the fighting, and God willing, with them you will live, and with them, die.

Others may talk of your social duties, of your democratic principles, of what you owe to your fellow man.

I take no issue with these, but to- night I would have you see another phase, from your own point of view.

Do you think it is a sermon I am preaching ? That I am holding up two alternatives, telling you it is sin- ful to follow one and righteous to farther and found the joker-clip follow the other. It

sense. It is the way to get the sat- isfaction which comes when you can say with St. Paul, "I have fought a good fight, I have run my course, I have kept the faith."

And he died a paper on Surf-Riding in the Feu- happy in the thought that he had dal Age.

tried. Would it have been better if he had taken the road to left, and when he had reached the end have had only thoughts of what he might have done, visions of what he might have been? You are paying your debt to society when you are true to yourself.

"This above all, to thine own self be true. Thou canst not false to any man."

Whether or not your life has been trying."

successful, depends on whether or not you consider it to have been so. To that end, start now and build. We grow by the work we do. You now have entered upon man's

estate. You are a student at school, a lawyer, a teacher; you are a mem- ber of the Society of Man. But it is only a beginning. The road is long before you, and as you start on your journey upward, it may be months or years before you realize your ideals, but if you are earnest, upright and true, you will finally reach all of that for which your soul so ardently longs.

Look back over a few years of your life. In what do you find your happiness ? In the mistakes you have made and the sins you have committed, or in something you have accomplished, in a battle fought within you between good and evil, and in which the good has con- quered ?

Resolve that the right will always conquer. Make these promises to

yourself: You will think clean thoughts, that your actions may be moulded accordingly. You will meet every responsibility, that you may not afterward name yourself "deserter." And that you will never shirk work or run from trouble that there may be no need of a whispered term, "coward."

Doing thus, whether you be prince or pauper, you can go to your rest saying with the old Scottish bard, "I ha' lived and I ha' worked-All praise to Thee, most High."

-Washington Collegian.

For a change, I received a letter the other day. I was getting tired of writing so much without getting any replies. I opened the afore- mentioned letter and received the surprise of my life. These words greeted my eyes, "Do you want to earn $10,000 a year?" I began to think that somebody at last appreci- ated my talents, but I read a little

Feudal England D-4?

Della-Oh, dear! I have to write

Dulla-My gracious, I thought serfs always walked. -Chicago Phoenix.

Those Kids!

Willie-"Hey, pop, I made better 'n 90 in Arithmetic today."

Father-"Why son, your paper is

THE LIBRARY.

Probably no one department has reflected more patently than the Library our large increase in enroll- ment of the past year. To May 31, our figures show a circulation of over 147,000 books, not including text books charged for the term, or books drawn for a period or part of a day. This is about three times our circulation for last year and represents one-seventh the annual circulation of the Baltimore public library system.

We have added about 5,000 new books since September, and believe that the titles chosen by the Faculty give the best modern professional outlook in the field of education. The departments of Education, Hygiene, Geography, and History have received many additions; and to Children's Literature have been added some notable examples of work for juven- iles in story, poem, and illustration.

The Library has suffered consid- erably in losses which will not be given in detail, as figures are not yet accurate or complete.

Two very gratifying circumstance should, however, receive the special mention of grateful indebtedness. One is the gift of a check for $33.44 from the treasury of the Thespian Club. We value this token of affec- tion from the former Thespians and shall put it into fine books or some durable memorial of the Thespian Club.

has Another gift that brought great pleasure is a check from the Treasury of the Liheo Camp Fire Girls for $17.00 This is given for the purchase of flowers for the Li- brary next year, and it will mean that every week during the school year some flowering plant or small bouquet of cut flowers can brighten the room. The librarians have in the past made considerable effort to do this themselves, and the knowl- edge that some of the girls have ap- preciated this to the extent of want- ing to carry it on, has proved a delightful reward for any sacrifices entailed.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 85

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