Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOWER LIGHT that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried .... We half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents .... Trust Thyselff' However, we moderns are skeptical, we immediately ask ourselves in our supercilious manner, What does modern science think about it?', Let us then, turn to one of our newer sciences, biology, which has made such gargantuan strides in the last quarter of a century, and direct its searching gaze upon all this antiquated philosophy. H. S. Jennings in his small book, Prometheus, and his larger one, The Biological Basis of Human Behavior, gives us a good conception of the results so far reached in genetics. He states: Beyond all other organisms, man, is distinguished by the possession of many sets of inherited characteristics . . . The educated man has characteristics very diverse from those he would possess if uneducated .... The inheritance of man is not alone what he is horn with, hut what he can develop. Perhaps with this preponderant mass of thought all inclined to the maxim Know Thyselfv we might choose to accept this rule and live by it. Not the comparing of ourselves with others, but the cultivation of ourselves, should be the steadfast purpose of us all. Do you agree? Your opinions on the subject would be heartily welcomed' HENRY KJTT. , x'Italics mine 0 9.0 The Glee Club UR organization is back again truly bigger than ev-uh,-than last year. It remains to be seen whether or not we can be judged to be better than we were previously. From my vantage points as both a senior member of our group and an oflicer therein, I can let it be known that we have promising material with which to work-student material and new scores to be interpreted. After various manipulations of each of these, we shall have, I am sure, an interesting, and, I hope, a successful season. Definite plans for our work of the year have not as yet been made. It may be expected that there will be the usual Christmas, radio, and commencement performances, however. I have heard that the piece de resistancen for the coming graduation is to be the Choral from Wagner's Die Meistersingerf' We hope to do it justice. Let me extend here a final invitation to you, regardless of class affiliation, to join our club and partake of the enjoyment that comes from singing. ARTHUR SHAPIRO, Vice-President. 22

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THE TOWER LIGHT Well, I must admit I have said this before, but this time Iim going to turn over a new leaf and show you that I can get better grades than either you, Howard, or Louf' When the last words of the above conversation had been uttered I could almost see Confucius writhing in his grave, and I seemed to hear faint guttural grumbles emanating from the resting places of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. As if Wafted on the cushioned billows of the air, I even think I heard Sophocles utter in despair, All things are noisome when a man deserts His own true self and does not what is Meet. Confucius had been one of the first to teach that great and basic truth Know Thyselff' Ever since, great men and great women have either absorbed this maxim as their daily creed, or have, after long years of patient striving for wisdom, reached the same ultimate conclusion. Let us attempt to follow this illuminating thread through the ages and up to the present. That great era of civilization of the ancient Greeks which pro- duced such geniuses as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, and a host of others contributed to it. Let us listen to Socrates who gives the View of many others. The unexamined life is a life not worth living. The next step in the evolution of man's advancement received its impetus in the Renaissance. The assertion of individualism-which had been sublimated during the dark ages-was now manifested. Men like Roger Bacon, Wyclif, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Abelard, Bunyan, and others, urged the people to cultivate themselves, especially their reasoning faculties. Abelard wrote a book, Know Thyselff' Since a great writer crystallizes, in a sense, the opinions and feelings of his age, Abelard's book is significant. In the age of enlightenment, Milton, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Spencer and others contributed to this illuminating thread. Our own Benjamin Franklin searched himself and, as you remember, in his auto- biography, he says: I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined, but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. In the nineteenth century, Emerson contributed much to this doc- trine. In his Self-Reliance he states: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is igno- rance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse, as his portion, that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him hut through his toil bestowed on the plot of ground which is given to him to till. if The power that resides in him is new in nature, and none but he, knows what 21

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THE TOWER LIGHT Orchestra HE Orchestra has organized and begun work on its program for the year. Though we regret the loss of our graduating members, Michael Saltzman, leading second violin, Eunice Burdette, first cello, and Margie Tribby, second violin, we are rejoicing that all but one of our other members of the 1932-33 Orchestra are with us. , Two promotions have been made among the second violins, Mal- colm Davies to leading second violin, and Erma Grafton to irst player at the second desk. Herman Bainder has been promoted to first cello. Eleanor Loos is playing the organ during the first nine weeks and Eleanor Sterbak the first cornet for the same period. Several freshman students are working in individual rehearsals in order to qualify for membership in the Orchestra. As soon as they can prepare themselves they will be accepted in full membership. The present membership is: Clarinet First Violin Cello E1W00d Beam Leonard Kulacki Herman Baindef T ,mi Frank Zeichner Han-is mi Morris Hoffman Organ Eleanor Loos Comets Second Violin Vivian Cord Malcolm Davies gwellopbmfe Eleanor Sterbak Louise Wenk Bar ara Bart ett Saxophone Erma Grafton Double B458 Dorothy Olert Dorothy Hendrix Dorothy Smith On Frolic Night the Orchestra played an arrangement of the Students Serenade from the Student Prince, and at Assembly on Club Day played Romance by Rimsky-Korsakov. Now we are planning to play in assembly within a week or two and to give a full assembly program during the first week in November. vie Camp Fire Girls The La Li Ta Camp Fire Girls of Maryland State Normal School are planning at their fortnightly meetings to do three types of work this year, beads, reed, and leather. Each girl works for campfire honors and makes as many as possible during the year. We expect to take several hikes very soon. Join now! MURIEL DISNEY, Secretary. 23