Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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22 THE TOWER LIGHT life is short ,-hundreds of times we have heard,-and yet is it short? .Vast rich experiences grip us,-moments when the hours seem minutes,-too rich in life to be judged in formal terms. Too short, these times, with the clock still grinning at us. But there,-- drab moments of despair,-life seems hardly worth the effort and the minutes seem as years. Life stretches out like an endless road. Sixty seconds-one minute. Always the same and yet always different. The clock never varies and never changes-it ticks away its measured stride. Must the difference,-the pain, the pleasure, the grief, the joy, the keenness of living hasten and lessen time for us? CHARLOTTE HARN. 'VSZWX ,Q 'Pais 5551 I 5': J 'iwtfdbfd 5-3, fgbaf

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Time Ever Changing gc IME and tide wait for no man, -how often we have heard that,-lightly, Hippantly said, perhaps,-gravely, sorrow- fully uttered. I have had little experience with tide, but the elusiveness of time is my particular bete noir. How often I have acted, how more than often I have heard recited,-in a dull monoto- nous voice, like the very ticking of a clock: 60 seconds one minute 60 minutes one hour it never varies, and yet it never seems the same. In the rapid tick- ing of a clock I hear it when I am late, H60 seconds, hurry, hurry. In the slow moving hand I hear it repeated when I am tired and dull. Always the same ?-No, never to me. There is all the difference in the world in the gait of time when my occupation is pleasant and when it is not. A lovely morning,-Old Sol beaming his very brightest, a pleasant breeze, the dream of a greenwood and a deep stream in which to swim,-I myself am ready,-does the time until the apopinted hour of departure seem long? A hundred glances at my wristwatch,-a dozen trips to compare it to the parlor clock,- a number of sighs and groans,- why doesn't the time hurry and come P What a difference there can be! An engagement that must be met,-a dinner engagement. Since early childhood I have heard how very rude it is to be late for a dinner engagement,-and yet- one hour,-sixty seconds,-to dress and get there. The old clock seems to grin,-faster the ticks sound, hurry,-sixty seconds! Dress, shoes, hat,-evasive, elusive, never to be found when I am rushing,- a second to place each ear ring-one dropped and faster fly the min- utes! What? Only twenty minutes left-the clock must be wrong -a hurried comparison with my wrist watch,- Oh, why does the time hurry so ? Yet sometimes time and occupation meet and mingle. There is a long afternoon ahead of me. Lessons are worked and forgotten,- a plate of apples is at hand, a p-ile of new and favorite books stands near,-and the room is dulled to a gray by the heavy rain outside my windows. Curled in a large armchair, drawing and reading, the sound' of the persistent clock holds no charms and no terrors. Sixty seconds-one minute. Sixty minutes-one hour. And it seems per- fectly correct, neither too fast nor too slow, for by supper time I shall have finished my apples and my books, and be off to the movies where time is completely forgotten! Always the same and yet never the same! The span of human 21

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THE TOWER LIGHT 23 Published monthly by the students of the Maryland State Normal School at Towson. Business Manager Circulation Managers SIDNEY CHERNAK HOWARD F LOOK Advertising Managers JAYE NEUMAN ANN IvEs Student Editors LULA BICHY ELEANORA BOWLING MARCIA ELLIOTT CHARLOTTE HARN ' VIRGINIA POOLE CARROLL RANKIN I ABRAHAM STEIN Price: One Dollar Fifty Cents per year Single C opies, Twenty Cents by Show us: The Way A NEW YEAR begins for the TOWER LIGHT. Its form is be- ing changed. The reception that has been given the idea of the new magazine, and the opportune small bulletins that are to come out from time to time, shows that we have fine material in our student body with which to build a paper. Perhaps you have seen the play: It Pays to Advertise. If we, as a school, could adver- tise what a normal school really stands for, and could show the public what our fine spirit and curriculum really is, I believe the TOWER LIGHT of 1927-1928 would make an Outstanding record for itself. Already Mr. Bader and I are working on an advertising scheme. If you can help us with suggestions, we shall be very grateful. It is auspicious that the new cover design has been made by one of our students. Mr. Stein has done well in interpreting the idea of the tower light. May the beacon, placed in Our tower by the glass of 1924, shed its rays successively brighter as each year goes y. LIDA LEE TALL