Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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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

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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 The Power of Speech ow mighty is the power of eloquent speech. How wonderful it would be if we could use words to make our world more mean- ingful and beautiful. Lovely words can even add glamour to geography. Mr. Walther said in talking about Chile, Let the children visualize the rugged Andes Mountains being lashed by the waves of the Paciic. Let them see vividly the clouds of mist coming across the mountains, the tiny streams trickling down the mountain side and drying up at the bottom in the arid land. Let them picture the people digging nitrate in the dry land. Miss Munn says, Simplicity of expression and talking to the point are the things that count. If you try to ind a job, when the employer interviews you, it's the person who expresses himself well that has the best chance. Don't flaunt big, meaningless words. Arrange simple words in an interesting fashion. Do you remember Lincoln's speech at Gettsyburg? There are no unusual words there, just an interesting arrangement. Few people are artists, few are musical, but we all do talk. Let's talk well. V A. WILHELM. Q 5.0 p Musical Moods OMPOSERS, through their compositions, induce various moods into our emotional life. Naturally, some of us are more subject to this type of hypnosis, if we may call it that, than others. Some of the following composers, in certain of their works, create the atmosphere or feeling noted beside the master's name. Beethoven ................ Restless aching and longing. Wagner .....,..... .... F eeling of masked power. Schubert ............ .... S imple, but highly dramatic. Haydn and Mozart .................. Simple grandeur. Verdi .................. Free, soaring, mixed emotions. Liszt ......... Many moods ranging from the ponderous dirge to the light fantastic. Greig ..............,....,... Haunted, restless feeling. Chopin .......................... Freedom and verve. Sullivan fwith Gilbert's librettavsj ...... Varying effects. from the hauntingly beautiful to the grotesquely assinine, many times in :sharp contrast. MacDowell and Nevin ....... .... S oothing tranquillity. Scriabin .......................... Eerie, lost feeling. MACCUBBIN, '3 5 . 18