Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOWER LIGHT Elizabeth sat motionless. Poor Ellen. She didn't have the infinite flame. That's what teachers needed. Why should she bother to memorize dates and conquerors and all the presidents of the United States? She wouldn't remember them when she was teaching. Teaching wasn't just subject matter, Professor Marchant had said. It was building attitudes in children. '1hat's what she wanted to do--tell children how to grow, how to live, and not about spelling, and arithmetic, and the presidents. Make teaching a beautiful thing! It wasn't easy to do. You had to have something that made you go ahead in spite of what everyone said-you had to have the infinite flame-the flame that burns endlessly-the desire that never ceases. That's what Professor Marchant had told. her. The bell interrupted her though-ts. She left the classroom and walked into the library, settling herself comfortably in the corner near the philosophy books. Elizabeth liked to read philosophy, but Ellen didn't. Ellen thought philosophy was a waste of time. It isrft practical, she had told Elizabeth, but Elizabeth liked to think she would teach children how to understand the world and the people in it. Miss Burns passed her chair. I-Iaven't you any work to do, Miss Kent? There was a sarcastic smile on Miss Burns' face. That was a mean thing to say. She would be sorry some day when she became a great teacher, a great educator, a great philosopher. Elizabeth began to scan the stacks of books around her. So many, many books. She had her own little library that she had collected from time to time. Someday she would have a larger collection than anyone, perhaps. She hoped that she would. She checked two b-ooks out on her card and started for the dormitory. At the door Ellen caught up with her. Have you done your outline for Hol'lins?', Elizabeth shook her head. fNo, I don't see why I should. What good will it do me to write down a hundred dates and fifty men? It will help you get a mark in the course, anyway. Dr. Hollins says our mark depends very much on itf' y 'Tm hap-py to think about marks to-day. Professor Marchant told me I have the ability to be a fine teacher. I have the infinite flamef? I hate that course. He never gives us anything to do. I-Ie just talks and talks about things no one ever pays attenftion to once they get out of here-but he likes you, you'll get a good mark in that course. Professor Marchant is a wonderful man, anyway, it means more than marks to meg it means I'l1 be a great teacher. My whole life depends on it. I'm going to teach children the new way, and I'M going to teach claildren HOC subjects-that's what it means to have the infinite flame. Ellen laughed. 'Tll be glad just to get out of here and start drawing 15

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THE TOWER LIGHT The Infinite Flame M. Lovii R. Hollins was in his place. Elizabeth had known that he would be. He was always there. Nothing ever changed Dr. Hollins. Economics, in his class, was always the same. Elizabeth slid into her desk with a smile. Somehow even Fascism and Ellen Price didn't seem such Ll horror to-day. Dictators and republics, and these girls that plod and cram-they didn't concern her. She had the future to think of. She would be a great teacher, she knew she would. Hadn't Professor Marchant told her that she had the ability? The infinite flame he had called it. What a lovely way to say it- the infinite flame. Well, was it Hitler or Roosevelt, Miss Kent? Dr. Hollins' flat voice startled her. I don't know, sir. No, Hitler doesn't interest Miss Kenti her mind is on the next dancefl The class laughed. Elizabeth didn't laugh. She just smiled. She wondered if Dr. Hollins or Ellen Price ever possessed the infinite flame. No, they wouldn't, but Professor Marchant did. Professor Marchant was a philosopher. Elizabeth liked philosophers-it seemed much nicer than being a crammer or a diligent student . Dr. Hollins was watching her. She could tell that he was going to call on her. But it didn't matter now that yesterday's assignment wasn't done --there was the whole future of her life to consider, years of work over- flowing with success and triumph. Let Ellen have her books and hours of work and pay check Cfor that was all it amounted to-a pay check.j Elizabeth wanted something beautiful from life-something lasting. Somehow it seemed more important to her to see a child growing into a man as she taught, than to watch a history book change to a monthly salary, as Ellen did. Dr. Hollins was watching her again. Oh, how he lacked the infinite flame! What is a boycott, Miss Kent? It's a means of ruining another nation, but l don't know how. Infinite flame, infinite flame. If that is all you have to say, sit down! but remember, l'm not paying your way through college. You're here to be a teacher. These things are necessary to you. Miss Price, take the question. Ellen stood erect. A boycott is the act of socially outlawing one. 14

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THE TOWER LIGHT a salary of my own--even in a one-room backwoods school! Elizabeth smiled .ind followed the girl into the dormitory. A assay Save for the New York World's Fair Probably the first objective of the sightseer at txhe New York World's Fair next year will be to secure agreeable accommodations for his stay during -the period of the Exposition. From the following figures, it would seem that he would have little difficulty. There are 133,334 hotel rooms in the cityg hostelries in suburban communities in the metropolitan area have 50,000 rooms, Y. M. C. A. clubhouses and sirrtilar semi-public in- stitutions provide 40,000 roomsg and those in apartments and rooming houses add 120,000 more. Thus the itotal transient accommodation is 343,334 rooms. The Department of Medicine and Public Health, which will have headquarters on the Fair grounds, will have facilities for attending to every medical emergency from a finger scratch to child birth. There are to be .ten first aid stations, a large corps of physicians and surgeons, nearly a hundred nurses, ten ambulances, and a mobile x-ray truck under the department's supervision. As many as 250,000 hungry sightseers can be accommodated during the day or night in the 80 restaurants which will dot the grounds. The bill of fare available will provide the visi-tors with a sort of gastronomic trip around the globe. A score of foreign nations intend to include dining halls in their national pavilions. France, for instance, will offer to the gourmet a camzra' mzfais a Porangei Belgium is to specialize in Flemish and Walloon dishes, with delicacies cooked in fig leaves, Cuba will have arm: con 150110, Mexico--famales, frijoles amz' baked pig, Rumania-a wide range of game, Russia-lzlimfs and ltasbag Brazil-colorful assemblies of tropical vegetables. Did someone ask for a ham sandwich? A fact not generally known is that most of the Bibles sold in this Country are printed in Belgium. Partly on this account printing is to be displayed in historic fashion in the Belgian Building at the Fair. Leather binding represents high craftsmanship in Belgium and many examples of this art are to be shown. Another section of this exhibit is to be devoted to rare old manuscripts that are now in the Antwerp Museum. cC0l1fTIIlll'cl mtv! ll10IIflJ.J 16