Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOWER LIGHT is injected into the simple act of turning a page. Although only black and white prints are included, these are made fascinating and colorful by the use of unusual angles and the contrasts between light and shadow. Both colored and black and white pictures of different sizes are fitted together to make the book's unusual cover, on the inside of which may be found maps to show the location of the places photographed. Therefore, if you would like a beautiful but inexpensive world tour, get Camera Around the World and take an enjoyable trip without leaving your comfortable chair. I VIRGINIA SPERLEIN, Soph. 6. CYHZ-DQQ? The Art of Obtaining Books From M.S.T.C. Library My plot is faultlessg I can't help but succeed! This has been my triumphant mood numerous times since I first entered this professional college. From the first freshman assignment to the present day, A. D., I face the rude, uncouth fact that the book supply is extremely limited. Thus the first step in my methodical madness is to carefully look up the call number of the desired volumes-hours before they may pass the stamping pencil and eagle eye of Miss Yoder. During the day I casually question other members of the class who have completed the assignment, so that I may select only the treatises which will give me exact informa- tion without much brain exercise. Besides this, I familiarize myself with the exact location of the publication, its appearance, and any convenient cubby-holes that may serve as a textbook hide-out for some other searcher. The stage is all set. The drama is about to begin. But alas and alack, at three o,clock the curtain refuses to slide on its well oiled pulleys, for the instructor of the last period sweetly requests us to remain a few minutes while the lesson is completed. After making about ten false starts for the door, I reach the library in the exact time of nothing flat, but still retain my upperclassman dignity. Panting like a runner, I wriggle my way through the crowd to my particular destination, open my note- book to look up the call numbers, but frantically search in vain. The paper has evidently departed from all human sight. All this time other students are reaching up on the shelves and snatching books left and right. By the time I decide that it was a gray pamphlet, a small green geography book, and a thick red history that I wanted, I am standing quite alone- gazing at shelves stripped of their raiment, but surmise that maybe it is for the best, and that perhaps Fate is merely in her kindly QPJ fashion protecting me from a nervous break-down from too strenuous studying. RUTH BRUENING, Soph. 2. QCO'nti111zed 011 Page 32D 25

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THE TOWER LIGHT Does Hollywood influence our national life? Ruth Socolo has con- tributed an amusing essay on Hollywood Gods and Goddesses, answer- ing these questions. Gable's appeal, Astairels dancing feet, Garbo's eccen- tricities, Clara Bow's It , Chaplin's fading popularity, and Valentino's reputation as the Sheik all are discussed at length. A distinctive and interesting style of writing is embodied in the essay. What and where will you be twenty-five years after you have left college? Read what John R. Tunis has to say in an interesting and infor- mative manner of the twenty-fifth reunion of his class at Harvard. The different members of the class of 614 members are discussed -what they had hoped to be, what they had become, their average salaries, their families et cetera. Some have proved to be very successful while others, even with a wonderful college education, are living on relief. What is considered the greatest human interest story of this year? John Palmer Gavit of the Survey Graphic contributed an essay on this subject. We in Baltimore should be especially interested since one of the main characters is from this city. The author says this love story makes the fairy tale of Cinderella and the Glass Slipper and the story of Helen of Troya' seem dull and uninteresting. Entertaining, informative, humorous, unusual, thought provoking essays written by many different pens may be found in the new H1937 Essay Annual. VIRGINIA ARNEAL, Soph. S. CQQQM' CAMPBELL, HEYwoRTH- Camem Around the W01'ld -Robert M. McBride and Company, New York, 1937 In his introduction to this book, the editor states the purpose as an attempt to assemble beautiful, exciting, original, and dramatic photo- graphs from many parts of the world , and this purpose is unquestion- ably accomplished. Unique photographic studies of the romantic places in every corner of the globe are presented to delight the reader's eye. The lovely scenic beauty of the Alps, the weirdness of the French Sudan, the excitement of a shark fight off Cape Cod, the quiet dignity of Oxford, the thrills of parachute jumping- all these and many more are revealed through the medium of the, camera. Accompanying each page of various sized pictures is a short paragraph of explanation which leads to a better understanding of each photograph. No definite plan of arrangement is followed, so it is possible to see on one page a picture of German peasants in festival costume, while on the very next a soldier of the Spanish Civil War is firing his rifle at an invisible enemy. This informal arrangement, however, only adds to the reader's pleasure since the element of surprise 24

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THE TOWER LIGHT Teachers College Record Assembly September 20 :- On September twentieth it was our privilege to hear Dr. Crabtree tell of her summer experiences at the Institute of Social Affairs conducted by the University of Virginia. Dr. Crabtree prefaced her speech by saying that the University was fathered by Thomas Jefferson who chose the site and supervised the entire construction of the University. Jefferson was an architect and inventor as well as a statesman. Wide of lawn Qcampus to usj and stately of building the University remains to-day as a physical monument to him. Following this description Dr. Crabtree went into the details of her course there. The timely topics discussed at the Round-table meetings were centered about International cooperation for World Peace, and collective security. Among the noted speakers who lectured were Sir Herbert Ames, who spoke to us last year and Smedley Butler who gave a spirited lecture on Minding Our Own Business in the Pacihcf' One of the speeches that aroused considerable discussion was that by a German named Kuhlman entitled, Why Germany Needs Her Colonies , a topic in direct opposition to the trend of the course. On Thursday evening of each week the Institute broadcasted the discussion over a nation wide hook up. The entire discussion proved picturesque to the audience assembled. QEQQCZQ? News From the Registrar The registration for 1937-38 shows a student body of approximately 475 students with the following classification- fifty seniors, ninety-eight juniors, one-hundred and fifty-nine sophomores and one-hundred-siXty- eight freshmen. The freshmen come from twelve counties and from Baltimore City. There are several transfers to the freshman and sopho- more classes from various colleges, including Hunter College, Goucher College, Millersville Teachers College, Indiana University, Louisburg Junior College, North Carolina, as well as several graduates of the former two-year course of the Towson Normal School who are returning for further study. In-service classes are again being given this year. The classes are held on Monday and Tuesday evenings and include courses in English, Art, Music, Geography and Economics. Many former students are attending these courses to earn additional credits toward their degree. 26