The Oriole, March 1925

Praise youth and it will advance to suc¬ cess. STATE . л TjWSON THE ORIOLE iii . ‘j To he fond of learn¬ ing is to bo at the gate of knowledge. Vol. 4-No. 6 MARCH, 1925 Published Monthly by Students of Maryland State Normal School, Towson, Md. THE PEDAGOG1QUE SEEM FUNNY ORKESTIIA. THE PEDAGOGIQUE SEEM- FUNNY ORKESTRA. February fourteenth is a memor¬ able date for the Class of 1925. On that evening Miss Tali held her an¬ nual reception for the Seniors. A special program of music, interpre¬ tative dancing, fortune telling and other divertiscments was planned. Probably one of the most enjoyable events of the evening was the sym¬ phony played by the Pedagogique Seeiufunny Orkestra. In introducing the orchestra Miss Barry, the director, said that, like Walter Damrosch of the New York Symphony, she felt that she could not refrain from saying a word to the audience about the interesting fea¬ tures of both the orkestra and the music it was going to play. She told the guests that this important oceas- sion was the orkestra's first public performance in America; that the program notes had been especially written for the performance, and that the symphony itself had inspired Miss Evans to create new types of instruments that might bring out the intrinsic worth of the music. These instruments augmented the usual three choirs of orchestral in¬ struments. The string choir was (Continued on Page 5 — Col. 1) WHO SHOULD ADOPT THE PROFESSION OF TEACHING. This is one of the most vital ques¬ tions that the whole country is fac¬ ing, and since the problem of this Normal is to prepare teachers for the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore, we should be making a very careful analysis. Our Easter Student Enrollment Campaign is ap¬ proaching. Then the students in the Normal go back to their own High Schools to induce other students to take up the teaching profession. For the last three years this effort on the part of our students to raise the level of the profession has been most gratifying. Year by year more of i the superior High School students 'are taking into consideration their aptitude for teaching, and if it seems to be beyond all other aptitudes are I joining our guild. A talent is a tal- ! ent. and should not be ignored by an i individual, even though a family might wish that talent to be of a dif- I t'erent variety. Watching for signs | of special abilities early in a child's : career is the one guiding factor that j will lead to the success of that child I when he is grown if only his elders 1 and advisers will heed the signs. In¬ variably a father or mother knows i that a child is mechanical-mindcd, or I artistic, or sews well, or loves music, or plays at teaching school. Most of the books ou vocational guidance ignore the teaching profession as one of the businesses of life toward which talented High School students should be directed. Watch the Normal School next year and study its enrollment. We believe it will move one level higher when the ability of the student it at¬ tracts is tested. Our faith is based upon the visiting campaign of our present Junior and Senior men and women. They go back to their High Schools at Easter, for a day’s visit. They meet their old instructors; they meet their former classmates; they \ tell of the life and the work at Nor¬ mal. The Principals of the High ■ Schools have been most charming in j welcoming home their graduates, and most helpful in giving guidance to their Seniors who are about to take up their new special lines of. work. Speed the day, when only the Icad- i ing sttudents from the High Schools, leading in character, in intellect, and in aptitude for teaching shall know their several abilities and come to us with convictions, prepared to take I their initial two years in the prepar- j ation for teacher-training. What j can be a more interesting business : than to manipulate the raw mater¬ ials of education! It is a transmut¬ ing process more valuable and more significant than any manufacturing i process in <his age of big business, j L. L. TALL.