Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOWER LIGHT Rural Club Report in the Assembly on September 27, 1934 Mr. Meyer, a reporter for THE TOWER LIGHT, interviewed Mr. Wheeler, a member of the Rural Club. QUESTION!-Wbdf is the Rural Club and what are its purposes? ANSWER:-The Rural Club is an organization to further the children's welfare, to preserve and develop nature, and give justice and fair play to humanity. QUESTION!-H010 does the Rural Club realize these purposes? ANSWER:-There are many diiferent ways these purposes are realized, some of the following are outstanding: 1. By travel-study trips. . 2. At the regular meetings people who are active in carrying on community, state and national work, describe their work to the club. ' 3. Through various projects, especially the Glen Project. QUESTION:-lVhat is the Glen Project? ANSWER:-We are interested in making a part of the campus a preserve for wild flowers, plants and birds. This will be used as a laboratory for study and recreation by the Normal School students. And, as a little secret, I'11 tell you this, they're planning to put benches under some of these trees! QUESTION!--Wbdf social functions are planned by the club? ANSWER:-We are now planning a trip to Hagerstown. Then we have delightful tea dances which are open to the whole school. QUESTION:-lVho is eligible for membership to our Rural Club? , ANSWER:-We want anyone who is interested to sign up for our club. We try to have every county in Maryland and Baltimore City represented. 0:0 Dividend Returns Rekindled imaginationv is furnished by books of Hction, literature, biography and ine arts. Refreshed mentality in books of science, business, foreign languages and history. Peace and serenity in books of philosophy and religion. One-Hfth of this reading was done by children under fourteen years of age. ARE YOU SHARING IN THESE DIVIDENDS? Los Angeles Public Library. 14

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THE TOWER LIGHT PORTIA: Let music sound while he doth make his choice, Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, Fading in music . . . . . . He may win, And what is music then? then music is Even as the flourish when true subject bow To a new-crowned monarch, such it is As are those dulcet sounds in break of day That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear And summon him to marriage. John Milton wrote: Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. Queen Elizabeth said she could shun melancholy by means of music of virginals. I've often wondered just exactly what George Eliot meant when she said, Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me. On the other hand, we find the austere Puritans emphatically against music. At one time, they sent a petition to parliament: A request of all true Christians . . . that all cathedral churches may be put down, where the service of God is grievously abused by piping with organs, singing, ringing, and trowling of psalms from one side of the choir to another, with the squeaking of chanting choristers. . X' However, we can't much blame the Puritans' attitude when we find that the average New England congregation knew only about five psalm tunes fwhich each person sang, nasally, in his own individual wayj . The following poem was found-written on a pew: Could poor King David but for once To-Church repair, And hear his psalms thus Warbled out, Good Lord! How he would swear. Overstreet says that music is what we would like life to be. Some time ago, I heard a man on the street say he never trusts anyone who has a fishy handclasp, or who dislikes music. Music is a beautiful art: to some people it is religion. You don't have to be a Wagner or a Galli Curci to enjoy it. It is as free as it is varied in its effects. It is a gift given us for our enjoyment. It is a splendid, worthwhile way to spend our leisure time. What do you think? EDWARD MACCUBBIN, Senior III. 13

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THE TOWER LIGHT Assemblies Da. TALL What is there about certain places and things that make us want to return to themg to know them better? Why do we want some ex- periences to become vivid and personal? There are places in our own city of Baltimore that history has stamped. Dr. Tall in the first assembly of the year invited us to visit these places. Visit the docks at Locust Point and Canton and other places of interest and really know your city. Our principal illustrated this by recalling' places in Europe which she had visited this past summer such as Lubeck that were of the type that you wished to know better. Find the places in Baltimore that you wish to make live in your memory. Don't neglect becoming acquainted with them. Do it now! Mlss MEDWEDEFF linrikishas, Shanghai, Singapore, Waikiki Beach, deck games, typhoons, Theatre Street. We were given a fleeting glimpse of these places and things of our dreams by Miss Medwedeff who took us around the world in the course of two very interesting assemblies hitting the high spots of her trip this summer. We saw coolies with bent backs planting rice in muddy fields. Clumsy water buffaloes assisted in the process. We saw the very modern city of Tokio, as well as the surf beating on the white sands of Waikiki. Our ambitions grew and our dreams became more vivid. We saw ourselves on board a ship-going-yes, going around the world. And when Miss Medwedeff concluded her talk by quoting the never too much quoted Sea Fever by John Masefield, I am sure that we all were more inspired, much better informed, and much firmer in our intentions some day to answer the call of the sea. May Miss Medwedeff have another opportunity soon to continue her work in spreading this contagious sea fever. MR. MOSER , Faculty members have romance. But what is romance? There are Indian trails weaving in and out of the mountains of Western Maryland and following the rivers' winding courses. There is a little deserted village near the Monocacy where glass was manufactured in the United States for the Hrst time by some German settlers. There is a rich treasure buried somewhere on one of these mountains by General Braddock. There is an old homestead on the side of a mountain where a farmer in ambush behind an ancient cherry tree held oH a group of Confederate raiders. These buried treasures and bloody battles and Indian trails and deserted villages are romance. I Continued on page 171 1 5