Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOWER LIGHT familiar to all by reason of its quaintness, May your shadow never grow less . The TOWER LIGHT Staff says, Have you your contribution to the magazine? 3 CHECK: To be Alone There is no course in any college catalogue which is listed How to be a Hermit . If there were it should be rejected on the grounds that we humans are a gregarious race. The progress of humanity requires that people profit by exchange of ideas and philosophies. It is from con- tacts with others that our greatest social institutions-home, school, and government grow. To the ability to work together we owe our greatest achievements. Yet we should learn to be alone. The great works of genius-paint- ings, music, sculpture, plays, and books are enjoyed as they were created, alone. This capacity to create or enjoy art expresses what is indelibly a part of us-that which distinguishes us from other animals, the possession of a mind. CEQCXQ Keynote Ideals brought you here, you numerous Freshmen. Of what ele- ments were they made? Adventure, optimism, impatience at limitations, a will to conquer and to grow were among them, we believe. The college faculty will attempt to aid and guide with sincerity and frankness in the resolution of problems, for it is a policy of good schools to legislate changes not as a dose administered with the epigram, This is good for you. Swallow it even if you donlt like it , but rather to provide conditions to promote growth by means of happy experiences. It is the opinion of many that our college is of this class, so, by accepted hereditary rules we bequeath to you years of adventure, work, disturbance, and happiness. 17

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THE TOWER LIGHT Two Cents Apiece HEN you buy a newspaper you seldom realize what is behind the purchase. Last summer in New York I stepped out of the seeth- ing congestion into a dignified hall of science and art to marvel at a twelve foot revolving globe, many and varied barometers and scien- tihc instruments g-the lobby of the News Building. Then up I went twenty-tWO stories to the busy ofhce of the Chicago Tribune. In one corner was the concealed entrance to the private office of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The door- way was a part of the Zebra Wood and of the mural which covered the inside walls, and opened into what seemed living wall pictures 3- From Trees To Tribunes . Beginning in the southeast corner of the room was a scene of the primeval forests with birds, beasts, and Indians pictured life size. Into these spruce woods came the pulp wood cutters slaughtering the towering spruce. The unknown powers of the wilderness stream then transported the logs to the pulp mills, where the progress from pulp to newsprint was shown before you on the wall. But the final picture on the east wall climaxed the whole, for it revealed the actual contents of the newspaper. It is utterly impossible to imagine anything which gets into print that was not depicted in this extraordinary mural with the map of the world and the Tribune Tower in the background. Every phase of news in the uni- verse was represented, including the most unusual, the essence of all news, a man biting a dog. It took more than two years for the artists to obtain the necessary data for the preliminary sketches alone, and not only was there the next great problem of retouching and elaborating the sketches, but also of grouping these facts on a huge wall sixteen feet high and twenty-two feet square. Covering the four walls on the inside of the office and acting as a foundation for the artist's brush was, as I have mentioned, African Zebra wood, especially imported and so called because of light and dark brown stripes in its grain. The artists in preparing the mural tried as much as possible, by toning down, sand papering, and mellowing all colors, to make their work seem a part of the exquisite grain contained in the wood. Everything in the office blended harmoniously with the unusual set- ting. The floor of imported ebony was in four inch blocks in tone with the walls, and the skillful matching of its grain gave the impression of a continuous board. The large sofa and the window seats had air cush- 18