Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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T H E TOWER LIGHT M , F j ig ' 2 :J e y State Teachers College TOWSON, MARYLAND

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THE TCDWER LIGHT A Challenge When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. -thus speaketh the scriptures. This philosophy is just as true today as it was in the days of old, and it is a truth particularly applicable to college students. In this country we attempt to prolong infancy and extend it into the college years. Play periods and athletics take care of the play spirit, but when college students attempt to study as if they were children, having to be led every step of the way-when they assimi- late as they did in childhood with no greater power than they had in the early high school grades-when they are careless in work habits, slow in reading comprehension and lag behind as if they expected to be coddled like babes-then a college suffers. A college is strong only in so far as its students are strong, and unless a student has a contribution to make to all of the ideals and ideas for which the college stands, ideals and ideas suffer. This is true of character as well as of knowledge. So I challenge each person who reads this TOWER' LIGHT issue who is a member of the student body at the Towson State Teachers College to take stock of his contribution. Is it that of an actual child, or is it that of the more mature adolescent student? Remember the words: But when I became a man I put away childish things. LIDA LEE TALL. 3 g!.355fWf