Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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il . 5- , l America's future de- ' , The future of educaf- pends upon education. non Tgestchselgl the Vol. 1-NO. 4 APRIL, 1922 'S3.32Sl'13ii. .?E'lHEii!Fitiilfsliifhe Ma'y'a GIRL SCOUTS. .Spring and Summer, Winter, Fall- lt matters not what time at all- The work that Girl Scouts do. we .- -know -Goes on in sunshine, rain or snow! Mark time, Mark! says the Lieutenant and every Girl Scout -thrills to obey orders. Left, Right! .and a uniform stamping is heard. Forward, March! On moves a straight line until Halt is called. One, two. tells Pauline Cadle that everyone is in perfect time. Some time of each meeting is giv- en for such practice Work as drill in Tline formation, marching. respond- ing to quick orders as Right face! and in the repitition of Scout laws, promises, slogans, mottoes and the salute. ' However, the main part of each meeting is occupied in preparation for passing tenderfoot, second class and first class tests. Projects of interest have been worked out by different Patrols. Patrol Il has been furnishing re- freshments for dancers on Friday nights. The proceeds from this will be donated to the library 'for new books. Members of Patrol I and V have been co-operating with the Cl1ildren's Aid Society in cook- ing meals for invalids. Patrol I in- troduced a scout movement in the Elementary school and now their organization is twenty-five strong. Other business that is being con- sidered by the scout organization at the present time is: Athletics, the Scout Play. hikes and camping at Marimarsh. Rah! Girls! Rah! Scouts! Rah! Rah! Girl Scouts! H. VVRIGHT. '2 3 . ,ANOTHER MUSICAL TREAT AT NORMAL. Under the supervision of the Mu- sic Department of our State Normal School, a very attractive concert will be given on the evening of May 12. The combined eiforts of the Glee- Club, Orchestra, and male quartette will contribute much toward giving any one an enjoyable evening. There will also be special outside talent to add to the program. If you do not believe that we can entertain, just come to Normal at 8.15 P. M., May 12, and let us prove to you that we can. ' P. E. C. A SUNBEAM. My aunt, a lady of sixty-eight, was calm and pleasant. No home could have been filled with more sunshine than was hers. Not only sunshine that shone from her radiant face, but sunshine from her soul, sunshine that made others around her happy. Such a cheerful disposition! Even. her soft gray hair, massed graceful- ly at the nape of her neck, her wrinkled but pleasing forehead and her brown, twinkling eyes, told a story not only of cheerfulness, but of love and happiness for every one. She was never too busy to lend a helping hand to one in distress or to speak a kind word to some down cast soul. Her small, graceful fig- ure, with the aid of her thin, smooth hands, seemed always seeking to be of service. Wherever she went she spread sunshine in every nook and crany of the hearts she met and every one felt happier and better for having met this sunny character. Could one wish for a better friend than this dear lady? ELLEN M. HARDESTY. I Y WE HELP. No one can leave the campus un- til further notice. What would We do for Heats? W'here would we get a new hairnet? How could we wash our hands without soap? The Y. W. cabinet got busy and before long 'we had a real store, selling every- thing from hairnets to ham. After all it was genuinefun organizing the lorders, standing in a telephone booth dictating orders for ten minutes, and finally having the satisfaction of get- ting at least one bun and a Yukon Dainty. Sunday was coming and no chance 'of going to church. How could We ever spend such a day? Our blues were cast aside through Miss Scar- borough's efforts. Dr. Humphrey ,came to us with a much appreciated message on Road Building. The last Sunday of church-going .campaign is over. Who wins? Jun- ior III, with a 'final average of 8015. This is a splendid wind-up consider-' ing the many interruptions. Away off in Armenia ive hundred eighty-two starving children will be fed for one day or one child for six- teen months, through efforts of boys and girls at Normal. Beside money. many articles of clothing have been given. This should be a challenge to others! , HOME ECONOMICS. The last lap of the year was start- ed off with a bang in the first as- Asembly after our Easter vacation. 'Normal School students were sur- prised and pleased to hear two very interesting guests, one of whom was Miss Nina Simmons, who has for some time been associated with Doc- tor McCu1lough, of Hopkins Univers- ity, in the field of Home Economics. Miss Simmons' subject was Some Practical Aspects of Nutrition. She said We ought to learn to live, not to exist. This is well summed up ,in the motto of the Camp Fire Girls wo-he-lo, which means Work, .Health, Love. We cannot work well unless we have goodhealth, neither ldo we make enjoyable companions lunless we have that sometimes elu- 'sive thing health. Q The department which Miss Sim- Lmons represents has experimented 'on white rats to iind the cure of beri-beri, scurvy and ricketts. Beri-beri, a disease common to the natives of China, Japan and the Philippine Islands, causes a person to lose control of the body and be- come quite helpless. Swelling of the eyelids may occur sometimes, caus- ing one or Scurvy of us who both eyes to become blind. does not apply to those live on a regular diet, but to men in the Army and Navy and sometimes to babies, who must use either pasteurized or condensed milk. The gums swell and rheumatism is often suspected. Orange juice is a fine preventative. Ricketts is not a disease of the bones as generally supposed, al- though a bone derangement is in- volved. Round shoulders, bow-legs, and' a pigeon-breast are indications of the presence of rickets in the system. The use of vitamines is absolutely necessary for the cure of beri-beri, scurvy and rickets, So if you wish to be healthy include one quart of milk, about two salads of some kind of vegetables, some greens, isuch as spinach, lettuce or celery, and fruits in your daily diet. Above all else let no one persuade you to give up your well earned rest at night! M. P. R. SHAPES. Practice Teacher - John, can you tell us the shape of the world? Johnny fintluenced by home con- versationsj- lt's in a turrible shape.

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A COUNTRY STORE AT NIGHT There was only the light from the hanging coal oil lamp in the cen- ter of the little country store. The dusty, untidy, stacks of soap, cough syrup and horse liniment in the cor- ners and around the sides were bare- ly visible in the shadows. The place of greatest importance was around the little wood stove. which was propped up on bricks in a box of sand. In a circle arouud the stove on a rickety three-legged stool, a chair minus its back, a soda keg and soap boxes. were seated six of the male inhabitants of Shantytown. While the fati jolly. red-faced store- keeper waited on his customers who occasionally came in to buy a pint of coal oil, the men around the stove in between the pulis of smoke from their corncob pipes and a chew from a piece of Brown's Mule. could be heard talking loudly and all at once. The topics of discussion were such as: who had the fastest motor boat on the bay, how plentiful oysters were, whether the revenue oflicer had'been arou-nd lately and similar topics of the day. Occasionally some one would tell a joke and they would all show their appreciation by laughing loudly and rocking back and forth in their seats until you held your breath for fear that the back leg on the rickety three-legged stool would part company with the others and cause the big. fat man seated thereon to break the last white button on his eil skin coat. A close observer might see the hand of one of the men quite frequently reach through the wire netting which covered bottom of the counter, and tish soda crackers for himself and companions. On top of the counter, in a of gloves, the old black cat soundly sleeping regardless of noise. The woodbox, in front of the stove, showed only three small pieces ei wood, thoughtfully placed there by the storekeeper to serve as a sig- nal ot' departure for the little group. M ARY PALMER. OLIVE CAULK- W'here is Miss Arnold from? Oh, from British Columbia, I think. OLIVE- VVhat! All the way From South America! the out his box was -ill? Anxious Teacher- Johnny, if we breathe oxygen in daytime. what do we breathe at night? Bright Boy- Nitrogen, ma'am. JUNIOR- There is something preying on- my mind. SENIOR- You should worry! lt will soon starve. 1 KEEPING UP WITH THE , BIG CHIEF. Since going to Chicago, Miss Tall has been concerned with legislative matters, One of the projects before the Legislators at the present is the new dormitory. The present accom- modations crowd 380 students. Next year we hope to have an enrollment of more than 500 students. Ar- rangements are being made to place some of these students in Towson homes. Some large normal schools have to house all of their students in this way. They have no dormi- tories at all. VVe are much more fortunate than they, for one of the most pleasant features of Normal is the dormitory life. The students who live in the town will partici- pate in the life of the dormitory and eat in Newell Hall. They will have the pleasure too, of looking forward to life in their new home, which we hope will be in the process of build- ing during the year. One reason for this hope is the support which we are confident of receiving from the Legislators. Eighty of them honored us with a visit on March 6. They saw the need for a new dormi- tory and were quite enthusiastic about it. We believe that they went away our friends. The other matter that Miss Tall is much concerned with is the cut in the Normal School budget. A cut of 510,500 was made. Of this amount 53,000 was to have been spent in the Rural Education de- partment. This coprse is an impor- tant one in any Normal School, the preparing of students to teach in rural fields. We had a beginning this year in a wonderfully enlight- ening course given by Mr. Edward Broom, Superintendent of Montgom- p ery County Schools. The cut ties' our hands in this line for the present. Y DEFINITIDNS' The otherzcut of 37,500 was to have been spent for extension work. lt is unfortunate thatthed word ex-l tensioni' was used, since one-fourth of the amount was to have been used for extension work and the re- maining three-fourths for'our ele- mentary school. Everybody con- nected with Normal Education knows that the elementary school isj the pivot on which the Normal Course revolves. It is the laboratory in which the students preparing to teach do their work. There theyl are able to watch children grow in the process of education. This year we have only four teachers in our! elementary school and 125 girls in practice. Next year 250 students will be in practice. With the seven Baltimore County teachers who as- sist as critics, this would mean 20 students per day to each teacher. We had hoped to add three new teachers to our elementary school staff so that no critics would have I fmore than 10 students to train. The lextension work that these three 'teachers were to have done, in addi- tion to their grade work, was to help third and second grade certificated teachers build up their training in practice so that they could rise to a grade of teaching that would make them more enicient. So at present .Miss Tall is a bit sad over the out- look of the cut. However, nothing kills our spirit at Normal, even though it may handicap us and we'll forge ahead in spite of handicaps. Watch us grow! B. A. VV.. '22. A Maarormrrn snow. On Friday, March 10, a Marion- ette Show was given in the Elemen- tary School at M. S. N. S. Tony Sarg did not present it, though it was based on his directions for pup- pet plays. The Sixth Grade gave the performance with puppets they made, dressed, strung, and con- itrolled. The play was the result of a. study of the Vikings and Norse my.- thology. The knowledge thus gained was used in the designing of cos- itumes, stage decorating, and scen- ery. tThe play was in two acts, each having two scenes, the plot of which ,was a Norse fairy story.J The work was self-imilated, free work, but there was surely no free or leisure time for the teacher, or pupils during that period. The suc- cessful performance was the culmi- nation of many weeks of hard, in- teresting work. Both the Sixth Grade and Mrs. McCord may well feel proud of this achievement. 1 L. C. w. 1 1 Q --Q 1 ASSEMBLY PERIOD- I I The time when anyone who has ia hobby to ride tries it out on the 'long-suffering student body. 1 MUSIC PERIOD. The period when the students in the next room wish they had never been born. MAIL TIME- Hope personified. LUNCH TIME- '. YVhen training in long-distance running pays. . BASKET BALL GAME- One time when you have to pay to get a sore throat. THE MEAL LINE- An example of The nrst shall be last and the last shall be first. TESTS: Instruments of torture devised by teachers to indict on the already ,over-burdened students. I JULIA M. WHALAND. Jr. 1.

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, ,V - ...Q-4.-g ' I 4 --,-L . -,g . I f A is 1 rr A i ' 'r .mv YORK ROAD GARAGE Towson ' BUICK MOTOR CARS F. B. 8: M. L. PORTS, Props. Towson 525 ,..., tram.. tm.. Y . , . ll Compliments of SCALE FOR RATING OF 1 TEACHERS. The scale for the rating of teach- ers is the result of the study of two groups of seniors who realized that some means of measuring their eni- ciency as practice teachers was need- ed. After a study of the material iavailable on the self-rating of teach- ers, an outline was formed. An ar- ticle by Dr. Harold Rugg, of Lin- coln School, New York City, greatly infiuenced the selection of topics. The outline as it now stands has .been made and revised twice to meet the wishes and needs of particular groups of seniors. It is again in process of revision by Senior III. The ratings are made on a basis of High, Medium, Low. At the end of eight weeks of practice teaching, a self-rating is made by the student teacher. Again at the close of prac- tice teaching an evaluation is made and discussed. In this way the final estimate of practice teaching is a composite one, partly formed by the practice teachers themselves. Black 8 Decker Mfg. Co. Towson Heights, Md. TOWSON BAKERY E THE Goonv sHoP Fancy Cakes, Pies, Pastries Ice Cream Sodas L. W. HELD 86 SONS Tel. Towson 204 ILGENFRITZ 319 N. CHARLES STREET Artistic Photographer Specia1.Dlscount to Normal Students, ? The following letter has been re- iceived by Miss Stone in reply to a letter to Dr. Rugg, submitting the two outlines: I . nA DATING SCALE FOR JUDGHYG 1 TEACHERS nv TRAINING JANUARY 1922. I.-Skill in Teaching. To what extent: 1. Does she understand child na- ture? 2. Does she have command of sub- ject matter? Is she gaining power through increased knowledge of sub- ject matter? I 3. Can she organize subject mat- ter in accordance with the needs of a particular situation? Are her les- son plans progressive? 4. Can she impart the subject matter planned, i. e., does the sub- ject matter function as a part of the life of the child? a.--Does she skillfully conduct the iclass discussion? ' Are her questions well planned and spontaneously given? Does she help pupils to analyze questions carefully before making decisions? Do the children ask questions? Does she stimulate thinking? Does she stimulate a desire for more knowledge? Does she help pupils to organize? a.-Do children gain in outlining main points? - b.--Is there a period given to judging? c.-ls there sufficient drill to fix knowledge? d.-Do her assignments lead to ef- School Supplies at HER.GENRATHER'8 Films and Butterfly Hair Nets fective study, not merely giving of pages? 5. Is there a gain in self-initiated projects, which connect child lite with school subject matter? a.-Are these projects worth while? Have they leading-on pos- sibilities? b.-Are they encouraged? II.-Skill in Mechanics of Manag- ing a Class: To what extent: 1. Does she pay attention to de- tails of heat, light, and ventilation? 2. Does she organize and conduct successfully the daily routine of the room? 3. Does order and discipline in- here in the work? 4. Does discipline lead to a. deli- nite gain in self-direction and self- control? III.-Teamwork qualities. To what extent 1. Is she sincere, loyal, and just in her relations to her pupils and to her co-workers? 2. Does she shoulder responsibili- ty for her own acts? 3. Is she interested in the group improvement of the school? 4. Does she enter whole-heartedly into the play life of the school? 5. Does she co-operate with the other teachers in school activities? 6. Is she interested in communi- ty activities outside the school? 7. Are lesson plans and school records handed in on time and in complete form? IV.--Qualities of Growth and Keeping Up-To-Date. To what extent I 1. Does she increase her profes- sional scholarship? a.-Books, Courses of Study, Mag- azines. b.-Observation of other teachers. c.-Discussions with other teach- iers and specialists. d.-Teachers' meetings. 2. Is she gaining the desire for further professional growth? 3. Is she gaining the power of 'self-criticism, through the right at- titude toward criticism? V.-Personal and Social Qualities. To what extent 1. Is she honest with herself? 2. ls she fine-grained Qreiinedl 1' ls she sensitive to social properties? 3. Has she a sense of humor? Does she get fun out of teaching? 4. Has she a sense of relative Nvalues? a.-Does she emphasize the un- important? b.-Does she minimize the impor- tant? have the proper at- teaching as a pro- 5. Does she titude toward fession? a.-Tas' she bigness ot her ities? 6. Does she out ideas? fContlnued on Page 3-Col. Sl a realization ot the job with its possibil- originate and carry