Education Is A Person's Greatest Asset
Vol. 1-No. 2
THE ORIOLE
Education In Youth
Reaps Big Dividends
FEBRUARY, 1922
Published Monthly by Students of the Maryland
State Normal School, Towsen, Md.
LEAVES FROM THE HISTORY
OF M. S. N. S.
One of our groups (Jr. 4) , which
is working up the history of the
Normal School in digging up material in the State Library at Annapolis found a bound volume of the
"Educational Magazine and Family
Monthly. Devoted to Popular Instruction and Literature.” A publication which was issued monthly
during the year of 1868.
Among the weighty accounts of
educational progress in Maryland
were found the following, which will
be of interest not only to our student body, but to former graduates.
From the issue for May, 1867, we
quote the account of a spelling
match :
A SPELLING MATCH.
"The young ladies of Grammar
School No. 2 challenged the young
gentlemen of Grammar School No.
1, District No. 1, Washington Co.,
to a battle in spelling. *****
"This arrangement being agreed
upon, the battle was commenced at
2 o'clock P. M. and lasted three
hours. At the conclusion it was
considered a draw fight, there being five on each side surviving, having spelled correctly 13,000 words.
There was no one on either side
over fifteen years of age and one of
the victorious champions was a little lad of nine."
1 wonder how well the present
Normal School students could have
competed with these grammar school
pupils in 1867!
M. JONES, Jr.
- A. K. D.
Beribboned, plaited pigtails
And middies inside out
Long skirts on the thin ones
And short skirt on the stout
"Mary had a little lamb;”
.And evening gowns a fright
Not many will forget
A. K. D.'s initiation night.
Now :
The curling iron is put to use
The short skirts grow still shorter
The evening gowns that were a fright
Will do their duty on Saturday night
For you will see A. K. D. go
To trip the light fantastic toe
In the Music Hall at M. S. N. S.
And, believe me, the fun will be the
bestest.
Per A. K. D.
A GLEE CLUB CONCERT.
Everybody enjoys a Glee Club
Concert, especially one given by college boys. Old students and friends
of our school will experience a thrill
of anticipation wheu they learn that
once more the Johns Hopkins Musical Club will give us one of their
charming evenings on March 3.
Music, instrumental and vocal
choruses and dances are some of the
things that we have come to expect.
The Normal School Assembly Hall
is not only beautiful, but commodious, and be confidently hope to
see it filled to overflowing on this
night. The public is cordially invited to enjoy with us a delightful
evening. Tickets on sale now at the
nominal sum of 35 cents. Be sure
to come.
ELEMENTARY DOINGS.
This time we will tell of the work
of the very lowest grades in the
school. The little people of the
first and second grades have made
a set of rules to govern their behavior on the street cars. Is not
this interesting?
1. Do not talk to the motorman.
2. Give old ladies seats.
Give ladies with babies seats.
Give old men seats.
3. Be quiet and orderly.
4. Don’t go in front of the cars.
5. Look before getting on.
6. Have right change.
7. Wait until car stops before getting off.
They also have been writing
poetry, real poetry, in the Second
Grade. These are some of the pieces
composed by the Second Grade children:
Once a great, brave snowman
Stood upon the snow
Watching the little snowflakes go.
I never saw a snowman brave as the
one in our yard.
JACK BYRNE, 2nd G.
Pretty little snowflakes
Falling from the sky,
So tender and so light.
So tiny and so bright.
HELEN RAINE, 2nd G.
Little snowballs in the air.
Flying, whizzing everywhere.
JACK BYRNE, 2nd G.
Seven little snowflakes
Coming in a row
To the land of snow.
FRANCES RULLMAN, 2nd G.
FOUNDERS DAY AT THE
M. S. N. S.
Mrs. M. A. Newell tells of early
days.
Fifty-six years ago, January 15.
1S66, the Maryland State Normal
School first opened its doors. With
eleven students and one teacher, the
work began in a small room on the
second floor of Red Men’s Hall on
Раса
Street, adjacent to the Lexington Market.
Mrs. Newell paid a glowing tribute to the wisdom and foresight of
Dr .Van Bokkelen and Dr. M. A.
Newell, whose untiring efforts led
to the establishment of the school
which was to be "the keystone in
the arch of common school education in the State of Maryland.”
She. urged the students to appreciate their advantages today, and to
realize that, although there is now
nothing tangible, left, of the old
school, the same ideals which inspired the founder still live and grow
in his worthy successor.
January 20, 1922.
Miss Alice Munn,
State Normal School,
Towson, Maryland.
Dear Miss Munn:
I am greatly interested to kuow
that you are launching a school
journal at the Maryland Normal
School. I have been impressed with
the splendid development that is going on at Towson. It seems to me that
the institution is meeting with unusual success in its efforts to prepare
competent teachers for the schools
of Maryland. Personally, I believe
that this is the highest form of service that any educational institution
can render. The welfare of the
State and Nation depends upon good
teachers not only in a few schools
but in all schools; not only in the
towns and cities but in the open
country; not only in the high school
or the primary school, but on all levels of instruction. The respect of
the public for the work of the teacher is growing. Successful effort in
this field is receiving more extended recognition and more attractive
material rewards than ever before.
Young men and young women who
wish to enter a profession of which
the keynote is service may well consider the opportunities that teaching now offers, I am confident that
these opportunities are not excelled
by any other occupation.
Cordially yours,
W. C. BAGLEY.
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