Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOW,ER LIGHT Modern whalers are steamships built in a special way and carry only ten men who work very differently from the old-time whalers. PAUL MILLER, Sr. 3. iibl As You Like It CWitlJ a cart noel to Will .S'bake.rpeareD LL joking aside, this is a humor column 5 I'm very, very funny, so I write it, you're ever so foolish, so you read it. If after you have perused you are not amused, don't be discouraged. Remember, the Towmv. LIGHT comes out but once a month, we allow you a full thirty days to catch on. Now dust old Dewey and wind up the old reflex action and let's go. How about taking a peek at some of the censored verses I have dug up from their literary hearses? Women's faults are many I Men have only two- Everything they say and Everything theyvidof' Our father slipped upon the ice Because he couldn't stand He saw the glorious stars and stripes, We saw our father land. A maiden at college named Breeze Weighed down with B.A.'s and M.D.'s Collapsed from the strain, Said her doctor, 'Tis plain You are killing yourself by degreesf For a long time I have felt the stirring of musical genius within my arteries-and now it has come to pass. I have burst forth into theme songs! Here are the theme songs I suggest for: ' The weather vane .............. ......... ' 'Any Way the Winel Blows The telesco e ..................... Heaven Seems to be a little Closer The Glee Cljub ..... .................... ' 'Learn to Cram That report card .... . . . Don't Be Afraid to Tell Your Mother The Campus ...... .................. ' 'Good Green Acres' ' 27

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THE TOWER LIGHT, Thar She B1-o-o-ows ! LD-TIME whaling boats were not large vessels, about one hun- dred thirty feet long and twenty-six feet broad, they carried a crew of thirty men. Consequently, some of the biggest whales were about two-thirds as long as the ships that hunted them. This fact called forth a story that once a whaler was sunk by a whale that rushed at her and stove in her sides. Nothing that these ships carried was more important than the whaleboats. A whaling ship carried from four to seven whaleboats strung to timber davits along the two sides of the ship, all ready to be lowered into the water. Their sides sloped upward toward the pointed ends, so that too much water could not dash into them while they rushed along, towed by a whale. Usually a whaleboat carried a mast and a sail so that it could get close to the whale without the noise that oars and rowlocks made. This was a wise precaution because, while whales are not much alarmed by what they see, they are easily fright- ened away by what they hear. When fishing for whales, the whaling ship Cusually a barquel would cruise around the waters where the whales lived. Now whales have to come to the surface to breathe, and when they do, they blow a column of spray high into the air. As soon as a man, posted at the head of the foremast in a sort of barrel, would see this spouting, he would cry out, There she blows, which sounded like this, Thar she bloo-oo-ows! Bloo-oo-ows! Immediately the ship was steered in the direction he pointed. When near enough, the men piled into their whaleboats and rowed close to the whale. In the bow of each stood a man with a harpoon, which was a sharp, heavy spear attached to a long, strong line. Six other men pulled on the oars, and another stood at the stern, steering with an oar. At the right moment the harpoon was thrown deerp into the whale. Away the whale dashed, diving deep into the sea. he line that was loosely coiled in a tub at the stern of the boat ran out like lightning, sometimes so fast that it smoked. As it shot out, away went the boat, towed along at a great speed by the wounded whale. Sometimes a whale would fight a whole day for his life and carry a boat miles away from a ship. But in the end the whale would be killed, and the men would either row back to the barque, towing the whale behind, or else signal the ship to sail to them. The rest of the work included cutting the whale and hoisting the valuable parts aboard the ship where it was prepared for storage until the end o the voyage. On the trip home the ship was filled with thou- sands of barrels of whale oil and many tons of whalebone. '26

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'14 ,- THE TOWER LIGHT The Camp-Fire Girls ....................... Smoke gets in your Eyes The Soccer Team .......................... I Get iz Kick out of You And now for a few musical notes about the staff. Dr. Tall .......................................... ' 'Yozfre the Top' ' Miss Scarborough ..... . . . Take iz Nnnzherfronz 1 to Io' ' Miss Bader ......... ..... ' 'Love Songs of the Nile Miss Blood ........... ............. ' 'Stair Gazing Drs. Abercrombie ..... . . . Mia d9' Mrs. is the name Miss Weyforth ......... .... ' 'Rhythm is My Business' ' The Tower Light .......... ..................... ' 'Yoifre All I Read' ' This is a swell' ' column ........ ........... ' 'Thnfs What You Think As Pop Sickle, the ice cream man would say, It's punning time at State Teachers and so it is, the halls are simply seething with puns. Indeed, it certainly looks as if our scents of humor has become ' 'pun -gent. Here, read 'em and weep: It paste to advertise CStrike one for Daviesy No one can find any wild maize anymore, it has to be cultivated. Isn't that a-maize-ing? CBlame that on Mr. Walthersy The astronomy course is way over my head, I'll thank my lucky stars when its through. CAnonymousD We learn to do by Dewey-ing CFrom the fertile crescent of Ye Editor's Cranium? A A wise man never blows his knows. A college bred is a four-year loaf baked on papa's dough CThree cheers for the N.Y.A.D And now I shall put a stop to this nonsense by saying bye-bye very humbly and inconspicuously, keeping in mind Will Shakespeare's ad- monition that there should not be much 'Adieu' about nothing. SID TEPPER, Soph. 4. 534942 Ishfay Azinesscray HE fall of the year is the season when those benighted souls who have been bitten by that insidious bug, the Bacillus Piscatoris, get a far-away look in their eyes. At that time they putter aimlessly with a surprising assortment of jim cracks, babble incoherently such jargon as, just missed him, flies, leaders, squid, pee1ers, whoppers, and biggest one got away, and exhibit other unmis- '28