Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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F p in I , X! I' sg ce- . X cation Is A per, Education In Youth E SONS Grams, Asset lu-apt mg Dividends .' vor 1-nl. El C FEBRUARY, 1922 ' 'Q:'.k2S.'st.':.f:'..':s:'.2?..51?isuizifiaifhe MQW i 7 SZIAZ.---3g5:,1-flfg JL..- TLV' ' ii-T L- 1 ' A A-An' M 0' NLEAVES FROM THE HISTORY A GLEE CLUB CONCERT. FOUNDERS DAY AT THE OF M. S. N. S. M. S. N. S. . one of our groups Ur. 41, which is working up the history of the Normal School in digging UD ma' terial in the State Library at Annap- olis found a bound volume of the Educational Magazine and Family Monthly, Devoted to Popular In- struction and Literature. A publl- cation which was issued monthli' during the year of 1868. Among the weighty accounts of educational progress in Maryland were found the following. which will be of interest not only to our stu- dent body, but to former graduates. From the issue for May, 1867, we quote the, account of a spelling , match: . A SPELLING MATCH. ' The young ladies of Grammar School No. 2 challenged the young gentlemen of Grammar School No. 1,ADistrict No. 1, Washington Co.. to a battle in spelling, it ii' ii i' 'F . This arrangement being agreed upon, the battle was commenced at 2 o'clock P. .M. and lasted three hours. At the conclusion it was considered a draw fight, there be- ing .five on each side surviving, hav- ing,.spelled correctly 13,000 words. There was no one on either side over fifteen years of age and one of the victorious champions was a lit- tle lad of nine. rl wonder how well the present Normal School students could have competed with these grammar school pupils in- 1867! M. JONES, Jr. A. K. D. Beribboned, plaited pigtails And middies inside out Long skirts on the thin ones And short skirt on the stout Mary had a little lambg And evening gowns afright Not many will forget A. K. D.'s initiation night. Now: ' The curling iron is put to use The short skirts grow still shorter The evening gowns that were a fright Will do their duty on Saturday night For you will see A. K. D.'go To trip the light fantastic toe In the Music Hall at M. S. N. S. And, believe me, the fun will be the . bestest. Per A. K. D. i 5 Everybody enjoys tl GIGS Club Concert, especially one given by col- lege boys. Old students and friends of our school will experience a thrill of anticipation when they learn that once more the Johns Hopkins Musi- cal Club will give us one of their! charming evenings on March 3. Music, instrumental and vocal: choruses and dances are some of the things that we have come to expect. The Normal School Assembly Hall is not only beautiful, but commo- dious, and be confidently hope to see it filled to overflowing on this- night. The public is cordially in- vited to enjoy with us a delightful evening. Tickets on sale now at the nominal sum of 35 cents. Be sure to come. ELEMENTARY DOING-S. This time we will tell of the work of the very lowest grades in the school. The little people of the nrst and second grades have made a set of rules to govern their be- havior on the street cars. Is not this interesting? 1. Do not talk to the motorman. 2. Give old ladies seats. ' Give ladies with babies seats. Give old men seats. 3. Be quiet and orderly. 4. Don't go in front of the cars. Look before getting on. . Have right change. 7. Wait until car stops before get- ting off. They also have been writing poetry, real poetry, in the Second Grade. These are some of the pieces composed by the Second Grade chil- dren: 5. 6 Once a great, brave snowman Stood upon the snow Watching the little snowflakes go. I never saw a snowman brave as the one in our yard. JACK BYRNE, 2nd G. Pretty little snowflakes Falling from the sky, So tender and so light, So tiny and so bright. HELEN RAINE, 2nd G. Little snowballs in the air, Flying, Whizzing everywhere. JACK BYRNE, 2nd G. Seven little snowflakes Coming in a row To the land of snow. FRANCES RULLMAN, ind G. -I Mrs. M. A. Newell tells of early days. Fifty-six years ago. January 15. 1866, the' Maryland State Normal School first opened its doors. With eleven students and one teacher, the work began in a small room on the second fioor of Red Men's Hall on Paca Street, adjacent to the Lexing- ton Market. Mrs. Newell paid a glowing trib- ute to the wisdom and foresight of Dr .Van Bokkelen and Dr. M. A. Newell, whose untiring efforts led to the establishment of the school which was to be the keystone ip the arch of common school educa- tion in the State of Maryland. She urged the. students to appre- ciate their' advantages today. and to realize that, although there is now nothing tangible left, of, the old school, the same ideals which in- spired the founder still live and grow in his worthy successor. January 20, 1922. Miss Alice Munn, State Normal School, Towson, Maryland. 3 Dear Miss Munn: 3 I am greatly interested to know that you are launching a school journal at' 'the Maryland Normal School. l have been impressed with the splendid development that is go- ing on at Towson. It seems to me that the institution, is gneeting. with un- usual success in 'its efforts to prepare competent teachers for the schools of Maryland. Personally, I'believe that this is the highest form of ser- vice that any educational institution can render. The welfare of the State and Nation depends upon good teachers not only in a few schools but in all schools: not only in the towns and cities but in the open country: not only in the high school or the primary school, but on all lev- els of instruction. The respect of the public for the work of the teach- er is gl'0WiHg. Successful effort in this field is receiving more extend- ed recognition and more attractive material rewards than ever before. Young men and young women who wish to enter a profession of which the keynote is service may well con- sider the opportunities that teach- ing now offers. I am confident thai these opportunities are not excelled by any other occupation. Cordially yours, ' - . ' L AYV. C. BAGLEY. x 3 5 fo 0 49 ' fffff' '1f'J,,, . Q- M-sg

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' .s -Q-:sl ,tes fs- xi ' ' r'i-'e'-f-s-we ff- s. ta sf... ?..L..f's?.-w ' ' ' THE BEGINNING OF OUR HOUSE - Normal Spreads Christmas Musici Through Towson I wonder if you remember how cold ber how your turecl out? That was the night that the en- tire student body of State Normal toured Towson singing Christmas carols. A few days before a notice had been put in the papers saying that the students would sing carols in front of every house in Towson that had a lighted candle in its win- dow, This plan worked very well at nrst but soon there were so many houses and so many lighted candles that we just had to sing all the time. while we were walking. Occasionally an automobile with some of the faculty in it would catch up to us and inquire if anyone had frozen by the wayside, but more of- ten we left the machine so far be- hind that it would whisk around a short cut to catch up to us. At many of the places where we stopped to sing, the people crowded out on their porches and asked us to sing certain other carols. Some of the carols sung that night were: Oh. Little Town of Bethlehem, ,Silent Night. The First Nowell. Cautique de Noel, Christmas Day in the Morning and Christmas Eve. Miss Shurtz planned and directed the carol sing- ln . it was a mighty cold bunch of girls and boys who hustled into the Dormitory at about 10 o'clock, to get warm, but if our audiences in Towson enjoyed the evening as much as we did l'm sure we will be ready wth some even better music1 next year on the night before Nor- mal closes for the Christmas holi-I days. That's the Belvedere, said the handsome young shopkeeper polite- ly. There was a chilly silence. Then the young woman drew herself cold- ly erect, lixed him with an lcY Stare and asked again: -. Er-and can you recommend the Belva? it was on the night of Decem- 21, 1921. Do you remember the wind blew and the frost bit! lingers and toes if you ven-I AN ACTIVE Y. W. C. A. I i Viola Almony. Sr. I. ' Service is the watchword of the .Y. IV. C. A. this year. Early in the fall the young men students decid- meetings which are devoted to the ihigher purposes and ideals of life. 'Regular meetings are held every Sunday evening at seven o'clock. A .spirit of good fellowship and devo- tion attracts the girls and boys in large numbers. Aside from the us- ual song and devotional service. special programs are given when outside speakers address the group oz' local Y. W. talent is used. Wednesday evening of each week qfrom seven-dfteen to seven-forty-ive :Rev Henry Lee conducts a Bible Jclass. He has been giving a very interesting and thorough study of ithe Book of St. John. The group of ,students attending these meetings 'show that they really appreciate the itine work Rev. Lee is doing for lthem. . . In former years the first part of ,the school assembly period was giv- ien to Chapel service, but this year Lit was decided that that time would ,not be convenient. As usual the Y. ,W. president, Miss Albert, came to the aid of the girls and ohfered to conduct Chapel services every Tues- day and Thursday from 8.30 to 8.-L5 Attendance at these services is ex- zpected. y The Y. W. has found another lfield for service. With the closing rot the school supply room, the stu- idents had to visit Towson for school inecessities. This was an opportuni- ,ty to make an investment that has ,resulted in a booming stockroom business. I Candy! Candy! The organiza- tion has attempted to supply the de- mand of the girls' sweet tooth by lselling candy in the dormitory. Do fthe girls like this idea? Watcn their expression when they are told l ithe new supply of candy will be in inext week. The biggest enterprise on hand lnow is the coming Y. W. play. The .cast will present A Kentucky Belle. February 10. admission ,thirty-five A ed to join with the girls in their! Xa jcents. In this play COIOHQI Mcyil, ilen and an unknown lineman are in ,love with Isabelle Douglas, Isa. belle decides to stake her future on her favorite race horse. If the horse wins, she intends to marry.. Come and see which one she mar- ries! Q MENTAL YARDSTICKS. The old adage, Every day brings something new, surely is trug gf 'Education Each term schedule for 'Senior III brings some new course lover which we all scratch our heads land try to imagine what it can be ,like. Really, we thought we had Estudied something of every phase of lliducation but still our new sched- iule showed Ed. M. What can fthis possibly mean, was the question in each girl's mind. We made all sorts of vague guesses until at last the time came for our drst lesson in this unknown subject. i Here it was that we found the real meaning of Ed. M. -Educa- -tional Measurements. At iirst we thought ourselves terribly ignorant not to have known what the letters meant but. oh! how relieved we were when Miss Birdsong. our instructor. told us that it was a very new course in the field of education. i The aim of this course is to ex- tamine and learn to give reliable sand standard ways of measuring the intelligence of pupds. After sever- al very interesting discussions and .experiments we found teacher's -marks to be very inaccurate. The ,same teacher will, at various times, igrade the very same paper different- ily. Her marks will show Huctua- ftions. Some conditions which con- ltribute to the inaccuracy of a ,teacher's marks are errors due to tthe unequal value of questions and ithe neglect of the rate of doing lwork. We can readily see then that there is a great need for some stand- .ard by which the teacher may test her pupils. - There are at present many stand- -ardized tests, among which are The LBinet Simon Test, Monroe's Silent fReading Test, and The Courtis Si- lent Reading Test, No. II. We have been discusing these tests, us- iing the following reference books: Qlleasuring the Results of Teach- ing-Monroe, Intelligence of School 'Children-Terman, Modern Educa- tion-Parker, and How to Measure -Wilson and Hoke. : Later on in our course Sr. III lexpects to do some laboratory work fin the Practice School. Watch tor lour experiments in the next issue? I MARGUERITE STONER. '22. 3 Miss Dowell: Wh:-' do plants fbreathe carbon dioxide? 1 Brice Maxwell: Because they fhaven't got anything else to do. i YOU ' - ii i I Q 2 r 5 2 2 1 S 1 3 1 l 4 4 I

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BUIOK MOTOR OAKS E , - - ' W ir ' YORK ROAD GARAGE Towson F, B. 85 M. L. PORTS, Props. Fowson 525 ....-.......T... ..-- . .. K.----- .-Ag!-LM Compliments of The t Black 8 Decker Mfg. Co. Twgggtueighu, Md, I I ' TOWSON BAKERY THE GOODY SHOP 6'ancy'Cakes, Plea, Pastries 1-3 Cream Sodas L. W. HELD dc SONS -fi Towson 104 ILGENFRITZ 1 SI. FU-.IKIIESG STRI-Il-I'l' -'lrtlstlr l'hotoagraphf'r JR. II-PSYCHOLOGY. Grace Harper.. WHY D0 INDIVIDUALS DIF- FER? We have learned in our Psychol- ogy Class, through experiments that all individuals are alike in that they profit by practice: that they show greater gain at the beginning of practice than at any later timeg and that the rate of improvement is ir- regular, some periods showing re- markable gain, others a decided drop in the learning curve, and a decrease in improvement. In study- ing individuals, we find they diner as to initial efficency, final efficien- cy, and the amount of improvement resulting from any amount of prac- tice. Let us now consider the causes of these individual differences. We may think of a human being first of all, as being produced by the two factors, heredity and environment. He is only a living organism that reacts to any situation that confronts him in life. The situations in his environment are the immedate causes of his reactions and the laws of the organism determine what ,those reactions will be. We may say again, that situation tenviron- mentl is the cause of a reaction but the innate make-up of the individ- ual theredltyl determines what the reaction shall be. In teaching chil- dren, we must consider that heredity and environment, the make-up of the child, have a great tendency to promote or hinder the growth of their intellectual power. The two factors mentioned, hered- ity and environment, are important in studying the individual differences of children. It is important that we know something of these causes of individual differences, because we obtain a better knowledge of just what the child is capable of do- ing dally, in his school work, Still there is another reason why individuals differ: that is because of previous training. Trainng may be thought of in this connection as the habits which the individual has ac- cumulated irom previous experi- CIICCS. Those having previous training 'plus original nature, given them by this heredity, are endowed with a higher initial and final efhcency. ,Every time we react to u situation Iwi- add to and strengthen our men- tul make-up. So what wc do at any moment in lite, is due to these three i'ucLm's, the situaton confrontng us. our own original nature, inherited from our ancestors, and our own ac- :quirr-d habits thc result of previous :a'XIlf4l'l6'IlCPl-B. School Supplies :tt HERGEN RATHER 'S I r DOES PSYCHOLOGY HELP ,US IN EVERY PHASE OF LIFE? Although having had but a short course in Psychology, one can see how it does help us in every phase and mode of life. The most important place of psy- chology is in the teaching and train- ing of children. This is true of both home and school life. No teacher can do effective or successful teach- ing without applying psychology. The knowledge of psychology helps the teacher to understand different types of children, how to deal with these children, and how to control and develop the various instincts in the right way. She can determine if a child is accomplishing what he is capable of by giving intelligence tests. Then if a child is doing poor work, by giving him various tests and by close observance she can find out whether he is mentally or phy- sically deficient, if it is lack ot in- terest or if she herself is to blame. In this way she not only helps the child but improves her teaching. Moreover, psychology is the great- est aid tous in all our studies chief- ly because we are able to reason wisely, have better judgment, and use the most efliclent methods of learning. If it is a help to pupils, and at help to teachers training children, it is of greater importance that the mother who has the care and mold- ing of the child from birth should know psychology. The child's life in the hands of the mother is like the clay and marble in the hands of the sculptor. As, the sculptor needs his technique to accomplish something beautiful and be success- ful so also does the mother need that technique in the training of children which psychology furnishes her. Therefore if it is a help to teach- ers, to pupils, to our associates, and to mothers, it is a help to all of us in every day life. I GUESS I ALWAYS WILL. When I was just real little, l always wondered why The cat could purr, the dog could bark And I could laugh and cry. I wondered how the wind could blow, And how the frogs could jump, And when I saw a camel, first, I questioned, Why the hump? I didu't see how birds could slug With such a little mouth, And what the grown-up people meant By nm-th, east, west and south. So on I came from day to day, Climbing lll'e's steep hill, Always asking questions, And I guess I always will. Spa-,-tal imcounr, ro I-'orinal wltwlontsi l llIIli-Q-81111 Butterfly Hair Nets ---By Harriet Luby-