Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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012 gfumcuz gjqeedom I 4 LENA C. VAN BIBBER A, ,fx i' v I V1 I ll i I -1 TH E AVO R D freedom embodies an inspiring thought. It has been the theme of poets as well as of patriots. XVe lovingly call our country the land of the free g and when internal strife tore us asunder. both sides held that they were fighting for freedom. Even dictators, whose nationals know no kind of liberty but the liberty. of obedience. conduct their attacks on other nations on the pretext of freeing I I their blood brothers from oppression. Germans must be freed from the cruel tyranny of the Czeehsg XVhite Russians from wicked Poles! Yet freedom cannot be an absolute termg and it behooves us at this time to giver some thought to this abstraction. and to ponder our own attitude toward freedom. XVhat is freedom? XVhy do I want it? For whom do I want it? Can real freedom ever be attained? Can all men ever be free? And if so. can man be free in both body and spirit? A little heartsearching concerning the above questions can do us no harm.- Wfbat is freedom? Ir it a path or a goal? It becomes perfectly apparent, when one talks of freedom. that one can do so only if one makes mental reservations. For in-j stance. one yearns for 'tfreedomu to pursue some train of thought unhampered. Re- move all external interference. but there still lurk within the citadel, intangible obsta- cles that still hinder success - ignorance. prejudices. enslaving habits! uXArfCtCll6ClI man that I am. exclaimed Saint Paul. desperately realizing that his own traitorous weakness held him bound. 'Awho shall deliver me from the body of this death? Wfby do I want freedom? Freedom from what? It is plain that this idea of free- dom. unaccompanied by promise of concrete satisfaction. leaves one in a vacuunmli Shall I ask freedom from pain? Simply being without pain is a negative eonditiong 'A ' r it. in itself. cannot mean happiness. Shall I demand freedom from work, from stress ' and strain, from ill treatment? Granted these releases. do they not merely lead one to an open door? But what is beyond? T For whom do I want freedom, liberty? Can real freedom ever be attained? Can A all men ever be free? The question, for whom is even more vital than for what. 5 j. Perhaps the noblest cry for liberty ever uttered came from the French. who in thei if days of revolution demanded not liberty alone. nor liberty for only one class. They 3 asked for liberty accompanied by equality and fraternity. Patrick Henry's Give me A liberty or give me death! would not have lived on had not this slogan been uttered as the rallying call of a whole aspiring people. After all. just a negative appeal for one's own rights. onc's own release from un- just burdens is not enough. We live in a world in which humans press one upon '7 another. Many thc world over suffer injusticeg many souls are dcadened by fear. and!- hatred and prejudice. Everywhere. a cry goes up for freedom from all these destroyf A ing forces. But mere release will signify little. even if it is spiritual freedom. For freedom can only be the beginning. It must lead on to constructive happiness for alfl classes. For the attainment of this exalted liberty there must be leadership. Carj A education provide it? f i TOWER LIGHTQ C

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f 151 X 23 1 l 3' THE STAFF EDITORS EVELYN A. FIEDLER ICATIIERINE FEASER RICHARD CUNNINCHAM CIIIARLES GROSS CIRCULATION MANAGERS Esther Royston Margaret Heek Virginia Roop Norma Gainbrill ADVERTISING MANAGERS Elizabeth XXIQCIHS Tillie Gold Ieanette Iones Margaret Lowry BUSINESS MANAGERS Yvonne Belt Iohn Edward Koontz DEPARTMENT EDITORS Art Dorothy Snoops Alice Trott Miriam Kolodner Andrei' Pranrsehufer Marguerite XVIISOII Humor Katherine Iaeob Frances Shores Scieu ce Lee 1XIeCarriar Iohn Chileoat IHIIICS O'Connor Athletics Henry Steekler Service Station Ieanne Kravetz General Literature Nannette Trott Irma Sennhenn Patricia Herndon Music Sydney Baker Exchanges Mildred Hainent F ash io 115 Marie Parr Dorothv Sisk LBLLIALIJ Vol 11111 1 OCTOBER- 1939 1 111-1 C 0 N T E N T S ON HUBIAN FREEDOIXI Z PACE To THE FRESHBIEN . 3 CHANGES . . . 4 IYIEET THE NEW FACULTY 5 IXIOTHERS FOR RANSOINI . 7 A CUBAN XVEDDINC 8 TRIOS OF TEACHERS . 9 CALIFORNIA AS I SAXV IT 10 THE BEST TRIP EVER 10 lXIARTHA,S V INEYARD 11 XZAGABONDING BY BIKE 12 I SHALL TEACH . . 12 IVIAN WITHOIIT NULIBER 13 XRIALKING lX'lUSEU1XI . 1-1 VVOIXIENlS HATS . 1-I POEEXIS . . 15 EDITORIALS .... 16 THE LIBRARY-AT YOUR SERVICE . 17 rl'IIE CLUBS .... IS SNICIcS 21 So YVIIAT . . . Z1 IN OUR IXIAILBOX .... 23 IDICRIOCRACY IN THE CAIXIPUS SCHOOL 2-1 IIO-I-IUM ..... 25 CAN IT HAPPEN HERE? . 27 Cafhcfmc Paula 5111111611 511811111111 FASHION FLASHES . ZS N11 Cl' 1 '1 ,, O lu llpmm College Events ILPHAPHS ' 33 Library Helen Picek ADvER'I'ISExIEN'rS 30 Elizabeth Zentz Elizabeth Melendez .-Xuclrev Horner Howard Stottleinever ., 3 , H N Doris 'Klank Mary Brashears ' DESIGN ON P11111 J - 1 LUC11 Elm MMF' D1 PCPPC N1111C5'Mfff2E6f SNAPSIIOTS ON PAGE 21 . . LCC BICCQIIIIQII Editorial gfmfgiggflgffw TIIE TOXVER LIGHT is published monthly - October Samuel Hofflim, through Iune - by the Students of the State Teachers College 11111105 ICH at Towson, Maryland ......I.. ALICE MUNN - - Managing Editor 551.50 PER YI-:AR . 20 CI-NIS PIER CKTIFX'

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, 4 4.451 I T ,J nf l 49 if-i ty ru. l'reshmen. and to all other new students. We, the uppereclassnien. extend a warm and sincere wel- come with the hope that your college life shall be a great success. l T The Freshmen l FRANCES SHORES -i1'HE TIN E has now come when we Sophomores can iaettle down to the peace and comfort of normal liying. Zllhis time last year we were a bunch of rather giddy Freshnien who. in the quaudary caused by new sur- oundings, did things that often changed the shades of pur coniplexions. But now. so we think. time has left its Quark on us. You may not agree but be tactful when you yell us so. Howeyer, it must be admitted that one of our aumber overfstepped her bounds when she approached Si staid Senior and asked her if this was her first year in pur institution of learning. Being a Freshman is really food for one's ego. You are -ii a sense the center of the stage. whether you like it pr not. First of all, you are contiually assailcd by an in- izstimable number of questionnaires which giyc you ,nental eruptions froiu figuring out how many hours ffou spend on the street car, how many hours you study, laid how many hours you spend in the library. Some- times you tell the truthg sometimes you dou't. 'l'he:1 ihere are those innumerable deyiccs for getting ac- EJCTOBER . 1939 , , S QT o -xii i: . fi AWW x 6116553 'I f , 2 - 3 N i 8 V 7: AEN y E.R.E1-STE quainted. You shake hands, smile. and balance teacups until it becomes mechanical, but all in all it is a lot of fun. For awhile yet you'll probably be running into the wrong places at the wrong time. Your intrusions will bc tolerated. We did the same thing. ln your Hrst few days of Library use you probably wondered what kind of night preceded the dawn of Deweyk decimal system. Perhaps you still are wondering. but it won't last forever. So. when all is said and done, we hope you lireslnnen haye a grand and glorious year. We did. but now we must settle down to obscurity. And. on the side. we proltably will be a little jealous because we cant blame our future mistakes on new adjustments. 3 lfft.