Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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EDITCDRIALS Oil for the Wheels of Student Government Do you know that our Student Council is the one unifying agent in this college which directly or indi- rectly fosters. after a democratic fashion. the work. the play and the extra activities that characterize our col- lege as a progressive institution? To maintain such a policy it is imperative that each and every one of you make a personal contribution in word or action. Have you read. and do you fully understand the na- ture and purposes of this organization? If not. you should then investigate these points in order that you may frilly participate in the meetings of the Student Council and be assured of the proper action at the proper time. S lust at present there is a decided movement afoot to further centralize all our activities by incorporating into the executive board. representatives from each organiza- tion of the college. Since this will mean smoother Stu- dent Council meetings with both a saving of time and a more efficient and polished type of business. we are re- lying upon you to give the new movement your con- stant attention and support. Service Station to Students There is a new department in the 'TOXVER LIGHT - a department which will help you. the students of this college. This new department is called Service Station to Students. Have you ever written to Aunt Ada for advice on your current affair? lf you have. perhaps she has helped you. But this Service Station is different! Suppose you want to find some good pictures on Eski- Inos. Colonial Maryland. trains: or an experiment prov- ing a gas is heavier than air: or some samples of wood to make an exhibit: or how tall the Empire State Building is. Do you know where to look? Ask our Service Sta- tion. lt will try to help you. Any questions regarding illustrative material. good motivation. culminating activ- ities. or even how to get along with your practice teach- er will be cheerfully answered. Freshmen, are you wor- ried. perplexed? Could you use some help in getting or- ganized. finding assignments. learning the habits of the college? We want to help you. Send in your questions to leanne Kravetz via Senior 6's mailbox. 16 A New Year--A New Attitude CALVIN PARKER XVITH THE start of a new school year. the State Teachers College finds that its official magazine has a completely new exterior. The enlargment of the Toyvizrz LIGHT to its present size has been achieved only after a great deal of hard work and endless negotiations on the part of the faculty adviser. lt is felt that this change will meet with the approval of most of the student body because it makes possible a magazine more physically at- tractive than hitherto. But a more important change yet remains to be ae- complished - the improvement of the contents of the Toyviarz LIGHT. Last year the publication asked for sug- gestions as to how improvements could be Inade. All the suggestions made were obviously sincere. but showed for the most part the need of closer coordination with the staff and its work. The magazine receives 51.50 from each students activity fee. which does not even begin to pay for the cost of printing and publishing nine issues. The rest is made up by advertising and by the proceeds from the FFOXVER LIGHT Dance. The word surplus is not in the vocabulary of the business managers. Every one agrees that the Toyvrsn LIGHT should have more pictures, cartoons. etc. But how can they be paid for? By your efforts! The problem of financing the issues is a serious one, but it is not the only one. XVe publish the best articles that are handed in. so give your products more thought- ful attention. XVe are delighted with the response for our first issue. Keep it up! There are well over SOO people in the college. If each and every one of these would contribute just one article, short story. poem. or joke every month. certainly enough good material could be drawn from these to guarantee an interesting and well-written magazine. Thats not too lTlLlCll to ask. How about trying these suggestions for this year and sec if it doesnt help? Seven Critical Questions l. ls this college a Normal School? 2. Can teachers be trained for the elementary schools at any other college in Maryland? 3. Do we have high scholarship standards? 4. Do young men and women prefer to come here? D. Do you have an active loyalty for this institution? 6. Are you an advertisement for the institution? ,. Have you helped your brother or sister ? T O WE R LI G H T 'u

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MAN'S CLOUDS OCTOBER ELLEN ANNE ELSTE Wfhen our Creator stood on lofty plains And dreamed of skies and eyes which would behold I-Iis spacious heav'nly empire of white trains, . I-Ie did of magic, pearly pillows mold. Ile dreamed of shaping fleeey forms which would Tell brilliant tales of joy and woe of life. lThese come in lives of men in all the worldg These may be clouds of happiness or strife. The happy feather fluffs all lightly play, And like the loves of youth, they disappear. Unseen by them an old man's sky may gray And bear impending doom, unbidden fearg 'But when our final cloud shall drift along Wfe pray the wrath of nimbus be not strong. VESTIGIA TERRENT IAIXIES G. IETT As shades of war, like evening's own. grow long, i And like a blear-eyed moose it lingereth V To drink by some wild shore in the still breath i Of night, then bellows forth a challenge strong I r 7 I wonder if I write my even-song - I For time is frail and soon surrendereth, l And all things have their dawn and all their death, , All, all are east into the ghost-like throng. The sun has fallen from its evening perch I Into oblivion from the skies. f Long after it had gone and others thought ig It dead, I walked abroad to see it rise - A fixed event that frightened minds might search i And find a pleasant hope they had not sought. REVERIE SIIIRLIE DIAMOND if I heard the sound of a woman's tears. Ii More desolate than the sea, xi Sigh through the chambers of the years Into eternity. And in the darkness of the night Wfith the gray dusk astir. L' I waited for the first gold light I l I . . f To guide me straight to her. 5 IOCTOBER - 1939 I 've The The The You hII..1z.fxBif:'1'1r M. Lewis grown to love the greenness of the trees. diamond-studded grass. the summer sky, blue bird's call, the sweetly-laden breeze. sunshine, and the robin. Answer why must destroy my summer friends eaeh year, October. with your red, and gold. and brown. Oh, dOn't you understand. or can't you hear My heart's pierced ery. when autumn comes around? For once. October, grant this humble plea: Spare just one blooming bush, one fiower, one tree. Please leave at least one summer friend for me. - - NOR MAN FRANCES ROBISON A startled yelp pierced the silent night. I rushed to the window, Beneath, On the smooth green of the moon-washed grass Two dogs were fighting - But Twisting Tearing Lashing Shrieking Snapping Lips curled Ears tightly pressed Against fight-maddened heads. I looked again. - One dog is Billy! No not Billy. who so often had pleaded Wfith doggy brown eyes To uplay ball with a well-chewed stick - Not Billy, who had always wakened me By thrusting a wet. black nose On my face. Not Billy. who chased the old dilapidated tom eat Up the peach tree. No, it couldnt bc Billy. For he is at rest under that same peach tree, A yictim of a fight IIE hadn't started - Tears turn a fat moon into a cross Then silence P- So peaceful and still - That perhaps ONE prayer reached its destingif tion - t'PIease. God. don't make dogs hghtf' I5

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I I J 1 I I r A w I r. ! Z I I 4 I 4 'I I 4 'x 1. '4 'I 1 v.. It TIIE LIBRARY - - AT YCUR SERVICE Cryptic Comments On The Library E. ZENTZ AFTER SOME judicious eavesdropping and point- blank questions, the following statements were assem- bled and presented as being a cross-section of student opinion on the new library arrangement and system. mls it really true that we can keep books a whole week? fGlory hallelujah tone of voice.j HI eouldn't finish the assignment - the books haven't come back yet. f'This is a break - not to have to wait around until three o'clock for a six-page pamphlet in the three hun- dredsf' 'tVVith these week book privileges. we can budget the time on a long period assignment. uReturning books at any time in the morning does away with the mad scramble and thronging mob at ten minutes of nine. t'It's swell! This Library system is a mess! UI want to know why people can keep books out for a week - I never can find what I want. f'Ditto. A'VVhy don't they use some of the money the Student Council hands out so generously for duplicates and re- placements and ease up on the veterans of twenty years' A'The new shelving system is grand. XVe're all for it! The new arrangement deserves a fair trial. Let us have 5' your suggestions as freely as you have given your com- ia fx is! siege? li' fl! m If plaints. Our Magazines DORIS KLANK jjj MAGAZINE S I journals! Digests! Periodicals! News- I papers! - there are over one hundred and fifty different , publications in our new Magazine Room for your read- ing information and reading pleasure. Do you have a course in current events? There is a ,Q small magazine, The American Observer, which is pub- IL! ilished every week in XVashington, devoting two pages i. to A'The XVeek at Home and Abroad. It tells. in concise I form. the outstanding news of the week in many fields. .HIOCTOBER . 1939 I The Christian Science Alonitor, a daily newspaper with a weekly magazine section. supplies world news with- out sensational detail. Are you making lesson plans? Both American Child- hood and The Grade Teacher give helps for introducing and conducting lessons and suggest activities in connec- tion with each study. In recent issues of these there are plans for teaching social studies, nature stories, and art and English lessons. Do you enjoy the news in pictures? The Illustrated London News is composed almost entirely of photo- graphs and drawings of subjects of current interest. Do you like to read for recreation? For you there are Readers' Digest. Fortune. Good Housekeeping, and Cor- onet. New among our magazines are the New Yorker, Sat- urday Evening Post, and The Nations Business. XVith such a variety, there is surely a magazine to suit every taste and every need. TWENTY - FOUR TREATS AUDREY HORNER Parker, Dorothy: Here Lies - The Colleclefl Stories of Dor- othy Parker. New York, The Viking Press, 1959. 562 pages. S3.00. Here Lies - The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker! Even the title of Miss Parkers latest volume reveals the ironic humor for which she has become famous. Here. in one collection, are twenty-one stories taken from two books published previously and three new pieces never before put out in book form. To many of us. just the name of Dorothy Parker brings to mind delightfully humorous monologues. dia- logues, and stories. Although we may be familiar with many of the stories contained in this volume. they re- main as effective when read and reread. A Telephone Call. Big Blond, and IIorsey are but a few of the sketches that well stand this crucial test. A new Dorothy Parker is revealed in the three sketches that have been written within the past few years, Now we see an author grown more serious, whose characters are treated with sympathetic tenderness and whose sit- uations are drawn from modern life. Soldiers of the Re- public brilliantly illustrates this new attitude. The story is a glimpse of war-torn Spain in which the horrors of guerilla warfare are clearly brought out. .X group of sol- diers who have just returned from the trenches enter into I7