Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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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.

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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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Qvttlfi FUTILITY BIARGUERITE SIMMONS, '34 VVIICII the sky shall be filled with brittle wings And the sun slant back metallic rays- hlan, like all former humankind, Shall lift tremulous, aching arms To embrace beyond the empty sky And know not why his dull machines Do not suiiice to case or still The spirit's ancient hungering for home. T HIS ARTICLE is written mainly for those who have come and gone. They should know how the place has changed. Perhaps it will lessen the shock they will receive should they return. Therefore, I dedicate this guide to S. T. C. with - The old order changeth . . . Do you remember the scramble for books in the Li- brary at threeg the tight squeeze in getting through to Miss I-Iolt's magazine dispensaryg the skimpy desks in front of the Libraryg the crowded highways and byways in Dr. VVest's Science Lab.g the bang of lockers on the third Hoorg the crowded Cafeteria? All that has changed! But, before you drop a tear. consider the change. Indeed, S. T. C. has done itself proud. Our Library is vast and overpowering. The spaciousness of our mag- azine rooni, which is ensconced on the third floor, is sini- ilar to the wide open spaces. A new desk l and what a deskllj for checking books adorus the hall. The stacks of books are rearranged in excellent taste. CNote: I won- I A Q I I W i .C .i li 'il ' i P . I J der if even Miss Yoder knows where the 3ZO's are?j The ll entire Library is now conducive to quiet reading andl intensive study. The Science Lab. has moved down the hall to the Cafeteria and there, with wide-Hung splendor, assails the eye. Surely Dr. VV est will need a niegaphone in or- der to have his words of wisdom heard throughout the room. Because of the upheaval caused by the general im- provements, rooms long identified with certain teachers are theirs no longer. Miss Bader and Miss Van Bibber, i A E I .- I 'P 'I lil -V s, . l Dr. Crabtree and Miss Munn have picked up their be- I M will longings and moved to diiiferent realms. No longer are lockers on the third floor: they are ar-I ranged neatly along the walls of the ground floor. Thus, the vista is enlarged and the classrooms and halls of the upper Hoor take on an added dignity. 'ri ,Li ,ll i I XV e eat amid the beauty of Tudor Gothic architec-, i ture. County and city students may now enjoy the pleas- ure of eating together in the dormitory. This brings about a closer feeling of unity in spirit among the stu- dents. New faces are seen in every room and two new faculty members have joined the throng. True. the place doesn't seem the same. yet a saineness is there-that steadfastness of purpose, sincerity of be- liefs, friendliness of atmosphere. and a genuinely whole- some outlook on life. TOWER LIGHT J. I l r IW L. I r 0