Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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lbe lower Lght Published monthly by the students of the Maryland State Normal School at Towson STUDENT EDITORS Editor Alumni Editor MARY-STEWART LEWIS MARGUERITE SIMMONS Business Manager EARL PALMER Circulation Managers Advertising Managers' ARIAN CUNNTNGHAM I S ELISE MEINERS RENE HANK JUs'rUs MEYER DOROTHEA STINOI-ICOMB SARA HAYWARD DEPARTMENT EDITORS Assembly Athletics General Literature RUTH KEIR THEODORE WORONKA EDWARD TURNER HELENE ZIEGLER FAIRFAX BROOKE MARY B. YAEGER M Secretarial Stal? Poehy Social HILDA FAREMAN MARY BUCHER LEE YENKINSON Science - LIZ DOROTHY GONCE EDITH WAXMAN E ABETH GOODHAND MARGARET CLARK HERMAN BAINDER Library Music RUTH HALE SARENA FRIED Humor THOMAS JOHNSON GENE BENEOW 351.5 O per year 20 cents per co py ALICE MUNN, Managing Editor Interested? ERHAPS it would be interesting to note the possibility of an addition to THE TOWER LIGHT this year. Heretofore our magazine has not contained a fiction column, but due to numerous requests it has been decided that one is to be established if possible. Now Whether or not We can have this, rests entirely with you as a student body. To enable this possibility to materialize We decided to have a contest every month, from which the best article is to be selected and published. As 16

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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

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THE TOWER LIGHT a reward the winner will become an honorary member of the Hction department and there will be a fiction column with every regular issue of Tr-us Town LIGHT. The judging is to be done by members of the faculty on an entirely fair and impartial basis. The following is a list of the topics, about which the contests are to be centered: November-Exposition December-Description January-Essay February-Poetry March-Play April-Short Short Story In May this column will be devoted solely to the publication of the names of the winners. We will appreciate your fullest cooperation. REMEMBER THIS IS FOR YOU. E. TURNER, Senior IV. O 0.0 The Freshmen Express Appreciation The freshmen class take this opportunity to thank the students and faculty for the wonderful welcome and initiation they were given on their entrance to State Normal. The usual treatment of the freshmen as the least important part of the school body was totally lacking in our first days at school, for we were shown every consideration of equality and respect. To one who has not had the opportunity to witness such a ceremony, the Induction Services were most impressive and beautiful. We, as a group, will do everything in our power to fulfill the pledge that was given, and help State Normal to grow in the estimation of the country at large. The F resbmen. :zo Assemblies fC0ntinued from page IU But how do you go about finding romance? Forget civilization. Go off the beaten tracks into the unknown. This was the advice given us by Mr. Moser who this past summer really found romance in our own Western Maryland. Take this advice and with the true deinition of romance, as given to us by Mr. Moser, in mind, go out and see if you too can't find romance. H. ZIEGLER. 17