Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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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

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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 Towea LIGHT School News oUR correspondent, who is by no means a Freshman, has some sentiments concerning our beginning. We have started over again. With the Freshmen has come an opportunity to make new impres- sions, to do things we wish we had done last year. The vacation was very pleasant, but who among us will say he is sorry school with its renewed opportunities has started? The Freshmen seem to be a promising lot. The girls are beautiful, the boys, handsome, and both seem to be adjusting very well. Despite the good job done by the Big Brothers and Sisters, there are many of the more intimate places on the campus to which the Freshmen have not been introduced. May we suggest the tower, the power house, the laundry, the kitchen, and the Campus Elementary School? QNot to mention parts of the glen.j V Some faces are gone. Some have graduated. Some have married. Some have decided they will be happier elsewhere. We miss them all, even if it is selfish of us. Do you know: That it is a good thing every issue of THE TOWER LIGHT is not a Hrst issue? Your correspondent would be tempted to resort to verse and one Herman Bainder of the poetry department might object. That being a Freshman has its advantages? 'Tm sorry, Miss Sperry, I did not know that, is a very handy sentence to be able to say with conviction. That one of the Senior men has had his nose renovated? He expects big things of it. Who is this Apollo by the art of the scalpel? Ask Teddy Woronka. i That a term of student teaching makes a great difference in people? Observe the chastened aspect of the Seniors. f What! Even Senior III? Well, hardly chastened, but they ain't what they used to be. j That the Elementary School children have devised a shield for their school? It is worth walking over to their vestibule to see. That conditions have been so good the Student Council has been put to the necessity of thinking up work, which is good news! Few people have been hurt by thinking. That the old elementary assembly room fRoom 24 to youj has been equipped with a stage and a radio? When will some soul be brave enough to use these fine facilities? That the Men's Room has been garnished with greens? We have heard words of approval. We hope the plants live. 20