The Oriole, January 1922

Education is a Person’s Greatest Asset THE ORIOLE Education ln Youth Reaps Big Dividends Vol. 1-No. 1 JANUARY, 1922 Published Monthly by Students of the Maryland State Normal School, Towson, Md. AN ELECTION IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. As a result of the efforts of the children in the Elementary School to secure money to build their house it has been found necessary to elect a school treasurer. As this goes to press the plans are being made for the election, which will, as far as practicable, duplicate the election of a town or county treasurer. The convention will be held January 10. Following the convention, at which time the children will make nominations for the office, registration, and election by ballot will be carried throngh. The work of the treasurer will be largely the care of the funds which are expended for the house which the children are building. In addition to this they find they have sufficient funds to pay part of the salary of the new athletic director and to become active members of the children’s Aid Society of Baltimore County. L. C. W. THE ENGLISH WORK OF JUNIOR SIX. We have had some work and some play in English this session. The most interesting piay period was our ’’weenie” roast. Late in the past fall the members of the section donned their walking clothes and hiked with Mrs. Stapleton and Miss Timherlake to Rogers’ Forge for the outing. While there members of the group played games, told stories and acted them out. After partaking heartily of "hot-dogs,” rolls, hard-boiled eggs, cocoa, apples, bananas and marsh mallows, we started back to the dormitory leaving a badly shaken up persimmon tree and the dying embers of the big bonfire which had helped to cheer the place and warm the frosty air. The work has consisted of grammar and composition during the first term and contemporary literature during this term. Next term we shall have expression. Through our composition work we have found out some interesting things about ourselves. The set of papers, for example, in which we told about our individual hobbies, showed some interesting side-lights upon our varous desires and ambitions. CAROLINE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS ENTERTAINED. Thursday morning, December 22, following their Wednesday afternoon game with Caconsville which determined the soccer championship between the Eastern and the Western Shore, the Caroline High School boys lunched at Newell Hail. The hostesses with Mrs. Curry conducted a tour of the Administration Building and the boys’ barracks. Our hope is that they carried away with them such a pleasant impression of us that they will join us next fall. HOW THE ORIOLE WAS NAMED. All the students were asked to suggest appropriate names. A committee narrowed the list to the best half dozen. The entire Assembly voted. The Oriole was the name chosen, and that unanimously. This name was suggested by one of our Seniors, Miss Ellen Hutchison, of Easton, Talbot County. This new venture оf the Normal School is launched with three objectives: (1) To give the students a medium for telling of their life and their ideals to nil groups of interested students in the State; (2) To give the school its opportunity to place its stamp upon education; (3) To give the State an opporunity [sic] to know what one of its Normal Schools is doing and Is aiming to do; (4) To send a message out into the schools of other States. Last year we published two issues of the school paper. They had no name: they grew out of a need to advertise for an increased enrollment: they were full of creditable school stories and information — but they began and ended there. It has taken four months this year to grow up to an ideal of a school paper but the organisation now worked out warrants us in believing that since the students are responsible managers the promise of giving us five numbers issued promptly the 18th of each month will be fulfilled. The student body has its own object In controlling and managing a paper: the faculty has its object, too. In assisting and advising the principal has her object. But the combined objects lead us to believe that the paper can become a medium for increased enrollment more potent than any other propaganda which might be disseminated. Maryland needs to know that in her two Normal Schools there should be an enrollment of eight hundred students. Each year there should be three hundred students receiving their diploma to teach from the Maryland State Normal School at Towson. We have on roll now three hundred and eighty students. Next year we must have six hundred. Oh, "noble six hundred!" We are ready to greet you. September. I922 will bring the answer. LIDA LEE TALL. A VISIT TO THE WOODBERRY COTTON MILLS. Our object in history is, so far as possible, to connect past history with that of the present time. In pursuance of this object, we studied the progress of the manufacture of cloth. This we traced from ancient times, to our own colonial times and from then to the present time, the age of great inventions. It was in the interest of this phase of study, that we accepted an Invitation to visit the Woodberry Cotton Mills, in Baltimore City. The representatives of the various classes of the school, were escorted through the mills by the managers and proprietors. The various steps essential In cotton manufacture; cleaning, carding, spinning and weaving were fully explained as the representatlvea passed from one step in the process to another. In visiting the mills, several motives were kept in mind, especially the comparison of present day mill conditions, with those of England before the Industrial Revolution. Although we found conditions very much improved, all agreed that surroundings could still be made more comfortable for the employees. As we walked through the mills, we could scarcely help wondering at the progress made by man’s mind in allowing him to invent such wonderful means by which cloth can now be manufactured. HAVE ANOTHER CUP! Of tea? Thank you. Miss Ayre. This phrase has had several occasions to sound this year in the North Parlor of Newell Hall where our social director delightfully entertained various groups of girls at afternoon teas. Each girl has taken away with her pleasant impressions of subdued light and jolly chattering, presided over by our most charming hostess, Miss Ayre.