“A good archer is not
At least once a day
known by his arrows,
but by his aim.”
THE ORIOLE
At least once a day
read a little poetry,
sing a song or look at
a picture.
Vol. 3— No. 7
MARCH, 1924
Published Monthly by Students of the Maryland
State Normal .School, Towson, Md.
MISS TALL DISCUSSES EXTRA
WAYS AND MEANS.
There are very few of either the
friends or students of Maryland State
Normal School who realize just what
things there are to help one in obtaining
an education.
At Maryland State Normal School
there are three chief ways by which
a student can be helped. One by
scholarships, of which there are several;
another by certain loan funds,
and still another by employment
either within or outside of the school.
Miss Tail began, 'Must last week
upon request of Mrs. Hodges, President
of the Maryland Daughters of
the Revolution, we sent her information
concerning the four students
who have received scholarships from
this organization. We congratulated
the Daughters of the Revolution and
ourselves because of their intelligent
choice as shown by their selection of
scholarship students. We were able
to report that one of the four D. A.
R. scholarship students has this term
proven herself a leader of rare ability;
one is an outstanding and vigorous
worker in the Y. W. C. A.;
still another representing the Craft
Club will be sent to Washington this
Spring as a delegate to the American
Federated Arts Association.
Besides these four there are six
School Board Scholarships now held
by our students. This means that
three School Boards, Prince Georges,
Anne Arundel and Talbot, are farseeing
organizations and have invested
their dollars with the guarantee
of educational interest. These students
of course will return to their
home counties after they have graduated.
Then there is the Sarah E. Richmond
Loan Scholarship. Of this
group we are also very proud, for
they have shown themselves to be
good investers. Their courage and
faith in their aptitude for teaching
enables them to incur a debt in order
that they may secure a professional
education for their chosen field of
the elementary school. There are
three of such students, two from Talbot
and one from Queen Anne.
Another problem closely allied
with the field of scholarships is that
of student employment. Many of
our most worthy and outstanding
students desire employment on Saturdays.
Some have found employment
in the leading department
stores of the city; in taking care of
children to free mothers and fathers
for a time; in giving dining-room
service to the school; in clerical offices
to the faculty. However, we
cannot find in the town of Towson
adequate facilities to meet the needs
of this larger group. We need more
banks, office buildings, larger shops
and a larger list of families to secure
this phase of the work of our
institution.
The human element in every situation
in life is the most potent. The
three phases ! have here oniv touched
upon, concluded Miss Tall, opens up
a most illuminating and gratifying
cvenue of self-realization on the part
of our men and women students.
ESTHER McDOWELL, Sr. VI.
SAVE MARCH 21ST,
The Craft Club will present the
Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree —
by Stuart Walker.
The Lady of the Weeping Willow
Tree will be interesting to all former
students and friends of real art, as
well as to those here at Normal who
know the Craft Club.
The play will take you in fancy to
the flowery kingdom of Japan, where
you will see an interesting love story
enacted.
Remember the time and the place
— 8.15, March 21. in the Auditorium.
“Say it With Flowers" to the Craft
Club and attend!
POSSIBILITIES OF MOVING
PICTURES AS AN AID TO
EDUCATION.
Education is concerned not only
with the study of the people, customs
and happenings of today, but
more especially with those that have
gone before. It is said that history
repeats itself, and therefore we study
the past in order that we may understand
the present conditions along
witl) their results and outcomes.
How do we learn of the peoples of
long ago? Through the records
which have been found. These records
consist of scratchings, drawings
and writings on stones and clay tablets
from the earliest times; through
the writings on scrolls, paliumpsest,
and parchment of the medieval times
up to the writings on paper; books
and pictures of. the present time.
The latest form of pictures as a
means of recording is the moving
picture. It is only within our generation
that the moving picture was
invented. There are few of us who
cannot remember the first moving
picture we attended. It was not so
very many years back, but the whole
picture, the story itself, the production
and the presentation, was of the
crudest. But it was a wonderful invention,
and was listed as a new
source of entertainment. Like all inventions,
it was improved upon until
today we attend a picture so perfectly
realistic that few of us can help be-
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