Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THIS '1'OWliR LIGHT upon the child mind, we touch the universal mind. It is a challenge of a kind. The teacher will recall, perhaps, the words of August Strindberg, I find the joy of life in the powerful, terrible struggles of lifeg and the capability of experiencing something, of earning something, is a pleasure to me. The tradition she carries on will afford the teacher a cause to live for, to light for. In any event, she will know that her work is an attempt to answer the confounding questions of our times. It is an inspiration that leads to begetting a design for living, a design for which the whole world is hreltlilessljr waiting. CECQ? Timely Thought As this is written they say, NWHI' clouds are darkf, But to us of this young generation war is something historical that happened when we were too young to remember-or something contemporary that is going on across the ocean, recorded in our newspapers. But those dark clouds may bring a fearful storm that will sweep us, too, into the conflict. If war comes, then we will know what it is . . . This time it will be our school chums, our brothers, our sweethearts, who will have to make the glorious sacrificev. It will be ur who will be doing the endless sewing, the constant serving-the awful watching- and the hopeless waiting. It will be our children, little ones whom we have lovingly taught for the development of rich, happy lives, whose chances will be blighted, Whom we may find lying even as we now see others in unspeakable news pictures. If another war comes . . . -no, that is not something we can dismiss as something that couldn,t happen again in a ucivilizedl' world. Human reason has been known to fail when We trust in it most. Let us pray for peace-but not with idle folded hands. Let us stir peace sentiment-but not by taking oaths never to fight for our country. Peace can come only through the universal understanding and living of the message that the Prince of Peace brought for mankind-if all will but accept the terms of world peace. 'QQCZQQF Did you know that at present more than twenty per cent of the teachers are men? 12

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THE TOWER LIGHT S Design for Inspiration LEON L. LERNER N a world hectic with cocked guns and marching armies and vicious browbeating and violent threats, it is hard, indeed, to find a subject fitting for inspiration. Shall we speak of the love of man for man? But in Europe man kills man. Shall we pronounce our faith in justice and right? But elsewhere Justice is torn out of the heart of those who profess to believe in it, and Right lies sniveling in the giant hand of Might. It is not a bright picture we face on this lit-cle planet of ours, humanity has good reason to be gloomy and sad. And so now, as in all dolorous periods of world history, we are offered plans and suggestions and patterns to follow. It is difiicult to know where to turn or what to do. The great mind of the world is crying out now, as it has been doing for the last twenty years, for guidance, for succor. Feverish eyes are being cast in a thousand directions for the hand that will enucleate a prescription for relief and salvation. Will the plea go unanswered? Jeremiah arose to answer the supreme question of his agei Buddha delivered his message to a world that had been desperately in need for one of his calibre, Confucius put an end to the plaguing doubts of his time, Christ drove back encroaching shadows of darkness. Here is evidence that in the past, burning questions have not gone unanswered, questions similar to those that parch our tongues today. Shall man kill man? Shall love and respect and honor be buried in the muck of outright selfishness and sheer hypocrisy? Shall human life be placed on the lowest par of value or on the highest? From the evidence of the past there is good reason for believing that for us, too, a way out will be found. Who will find the way out for us? It will be the teacher, even as before it was the teacher, Jeremiah and Buddha and Confucius and Christ. Here is the greatest concept for us who have chosen our life's work in this field of teaching. Our spiritual progenitors have cast the die for us, and we have their footsteps to follow. Theirs was a job of enlighten- ment, so is ours. Theirs was a job of dispelling fears and superstitionsg so is ours. They developed the understanding of man's behavior, we label the same, psychology, and apply it as we can. They were led to set standards for thinking and for doing, the teacher in the community is expected to do -the same. That we deal with children only enhances our position in the whole human race. Mencius, the Chinese philosopher, wrote: 'tThe great man is he who never outgrows che heart of a child. And so, in touching 11

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THE TOWER LIGHT Our Elementary School Science Room LOUIS Cox ECAUSE of the specialized equipment needed for much science work, one of the latest trends in elementary school management has been to provide a science roomy' and Uscience consultantn to supplement the classroom science teaching for all the grades. This year the Campus School is provided with a science room which is an unusually efficient teaching unit. Since such an arrangement is needed by many of the schools in which we shall teach, the following details are worth noting: This room is located on the e- V - . southeast corner of the sec- ' ' r ' ' 1 ond floor. y A. Closet with bowl, hot and N B043 cold water, paper towels A A L.,4 and soap. ' I l I I. B. Display and work table, 3 H i F . ft. above floor, 2 ft. wide. 'E - , O 5 C. Cas outlets and Bunsen W E HAH , burners. BI 13-' A D. Table-top cabinet unit, 222 ft. above floor, 2 ft. out from wall. E. Window box shelf, an ft. above floor, 2 ft. wide. F. Sand table, 2 ft. high. G. Demonstration table, 2 ft. high. H and I. Demonstration and display tables, 2 LQ ft. high. K. Folding canvas stools for class use. L. Carpentry work table with vise and set of tools. M. Storage cupboard for glassware, chemicals and other small apparatus. N. Blank white wall for projection screen. O and W. Door and windows equipped with dark blinds. BuB. Celotex bulletin boards built into the wall. BIB. Slate blackboard. Besides the above equipment, the room has adequate artificial light, four electric outlets, paints, brushes, necessary chemicals and electrical equipment, animal cages, aquarium, flower boxes, folding table, waste basket, and much special and pupil-made apparatus. Developments in this newest study of the Campus School we hope may prove to be significant and interesting, and I hope to have the op- portunity of describing them to you. 13