Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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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

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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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THE TOWER LIGHT Nicky, My Dog ICKY is one . . . year . . . old . . .! It all happened Wednesday amid gala festivities at which we shouted the appropriate song, gave him a piece of the becandled cake fwhich under ordinary conditions he shouldn't havej and at last bestowed upon him the gifts. You have never seen in all your life a happier young one, despite the fact that Daddy gave him QI blush at the thought, a muzzle. Nicky's carefree attitude was probably due to the fact that even then he was planning how he'd tramp home from a subsequent excursion, his license tag jingling from the shiny new collar, his ribbon although a bit dejected looking as though slightly drooping at the corners of the mouth, still tied securely, and the obnoxious gift . . . gone. Nicky always has had an air about him. Even when after his bath he rolls in the mud or frisks with the fuzzy raggle-taggle down the street, he seems to bear in mind his Doberman ancestry and eventually shakes his fuzzy friend as he does his muddy thighs. But now, with the passing of Wednesday, Nicky's whole bearing has acquired a maturity which is truly admirable. As a consequence, we love the new Nicky not exactly more, but differently from the Nicky we found at the fireside on Christmas morning. The only trouble is, that now, if on one of his frequent, subsequent excursions, he should encounter a venerable S. P. C. A. officer, we, and he also, will wish he hadn't been quite so crafty. M. S. L., Senior Sp. The mother had discovered her small daughter, Betty, aged three, busily engaged in washing the kitten with soap and water. Oh, darling, I don't think the kitty's mother would like the way you are washing her. Well, Betty seriously replied, I really can't lick it, Mother. if 21- 4 - Pedestrian fto boy leading a skinny mongrel pupj- What kind of a dog is that, my boy? Boy-- This is a police dog. Pedestrian- That doesn't look like a police dog. Boy- No, it's in the secret service. -Kingston Standard. 19