“Let not to got a living be thy trade, but
thy sport.”
ALBERT S. COOK LIBRARY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE AT TOWSON
BALTIMORE 4, MARYLAND
THE ORIOLE
"There is no wisdom
that can take the place
of humanity.”
Vol. 4— No. 3
JANUARY, 1925
Published Monthly by Students of Maryland
State Normal School. Towson. Md.
2 STATE STUDENTS WIN
WORLD PRIZES
Miss E. K. Gibson and H. H.
Batchelor Awarded Honors
In Essay Contest.
PEACE SUBJECT OF PAPERS
League’s Competition Open To
Schools Of Nation And
Europe.
One student of the State Normal
School, at Towson, has been awarded
first prize and another student third
prize in the world essay contest for
1924, conducted by the American
School Citizenship League for the
Promotion of World Peace, according to a Boston dispatch to The Sun
last night.
The prize-winning essay was written and submitted by Miss Elva
Katherine Gibson. The prize was
offered to students in normal schools
and teachers' colleges for the best
essay on “Methods of Promoting
World Friendship Through Education."
Awarded Third Prize.
Third prize was awarded to Harry
Harris Batchelor, also of the State
Normal School.
Each of the 48 States in the country and many foreign countries were
represented in the contest. Those
submitting essays were considered
the most intelligent students in the
advanced schools of this country and
Europe. — (Extract from Baltimore
Morning Sun).
NOTICE— NORMALS AND
PESTS.
All Alumni and Students reserve
the following dates for the Normal
and Pestalozzi contests:
February 13 — Debating contest.
March 6 — Literary contest.
March 20 — Contest of Scientific
Club.
April 24 — Dramatic contest.
E. KATHERINE GIBSON
[PHOTOGRAPH]
Awarded First Prize In World
Contest.
TOO GOOD TO KEEP.
Have you seen the group of enthusiastic members of the club that
meets in the room overlooking one
of the richest and rarest views of
the Piedmont Plateau? Have you
heard that the meeting is conducted
so informally that everyone wants
to take part? Have you caught the
magic word that brings a sudden
light to the faces of the enthusiastic
members. The ‘‘password’’ is exhibit and the group is the History
and Geography Club meeting in
Room 201.
It is no longer a secret for the
members to keep, but an opportunity
which they are offering every one.
Imagine — a whole collection that
will tell just why Maryland is the
State we claim it to be and just what
part it has taken in the growth and
development of our country.
Here is your chance to display
your family relics, to exhibit your
family heirlooms, to show how interested you are in - .
Oh! just ask any of the members.
Your cooperation will be appreciated.
FRANCES S. LORD,
Assistant Secy, and Treasurer,
History and Geography Club.
TWO M. S. N. S. STUDENTS
WIN WORLD PRIZES.
E. Katherine Gibson Awarded First
Prize. Harry Batchelor Gets
Third Prize.
A brief synopsis of points of Miss
Gibson's essay:
METHODS FOR PROMOTING
WORLD PEACE THROUGH
EDUCATION.
World peace is no more impossible
than many of the great changes that
have already taken place in the history of the world’s peace. It is most
desirable in spite of the arguments
set forth against it by the militarist.
in spite of its possibility and desirability, world peace cannot be attained in a short time or with little
labor. It will require the cooperative effort of the whole world for
many years. Surely there can be no
wiser plan than to build from the
bottom, with a firm foundation.
This can be done only by the education of the children of the world,
who in a few years will be its citizens.
Education for world peace requires many changes of aim, content
and method in curricula. Education properly directed will stamp out
illiteracy in every country. World
peace necessitates the education of
public opinion. All of this can best
be done through schools and educators.
Some subjects yield readily to the
introduction of the doctrine, world
peace and brotherhood. History,
civics and geography are particularly
adapted to this end. Many changes
are necessary, however, in the textbooks used, the methods employed,
and the attitudes and ideals of both
teacher and children. Some special
training in Normal Schools and
Teachers' Colleges is essential.
With a positive program for promoting world peace in every elementary school, in every secondary
school, and in every Normal School,
college and university, supplemented what is already being done by
the various organizations for peace,
and the several Christian societies and
may we not hope that sometime in
the future our ideal will be realized.
Miss Gibson is teaching a one-room
school at Daubs, Frederick county,
Maryland. Mr. Batchelor is attending Johns Hopkins. Both of our
prize winners graduated last June.
