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.