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The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present
 

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

The Lantern is the student literary magazine of Ursinus College. In the early years of the college, creative works appeared in the Ruby yearbook and as an eight-page literary supplement in The Weekly newspaper. With the inauguration of clubs, advocacy began for a literary magazine - the first issue of which appeared in 1933. The magazine, published and edited by students since its inception, was first produced several times a year. It is currently published once a year in April.

The Lantern is named after the light in Pfahler Hall's tower and symbolizes "the light shed by creative work," as stated in the inaugural issue. Throughout the run of the magazine one will find student-submitted fiction, poems, essays, book reviews, creative nonfiction and artwork.

Works featured in the magazine are copyrighted by the individual authors and artists and are not to be copied or distributed for commercial gain.

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  • The Lantern Vol. 24, No. 3, May 1956 by David Hudnut, Bert Wendel, Maury Hoberman, Nancy Carson, Ira Lederman, and Don Hodgson

    The Lantern Vol. 24, No. 3, May 1956

    David Hudnut, Bert Wendel, Maury Hoberman, Nancy Carson, Ira Lederman, and Don Hodgson

    • Wedding Week in East Pookins
    • Playground
    • When the Moon
    • Love Song
    • Balladier
    • Soliloquy
    • The Search for Alfie Patch
    • How I Learned to Drive
    • The Hard-Backed Chair
    • Amicus
    • A Strange Experience

  • The Lantern Vol. 24, No. 2, March 1956 by David M. Leivy, Karl Billman, Tom McCabe, Bill White, Ira Lederman, Bill Montgomery, and David Hudnut

    The Lantern Vol. 24, No. 2, March 1956

    David M. Leivy, Karl Billman, Tom McCabe, Bill White, Ira Lederman, Bill Montgomery, and David Hudnut

    • Nee Collegium Emersonium
    • Two on the Aisle
    • Sheepherder Heard From
    • The Vicar of Wakefield
    • Miracle on Tisdam Avenue
    • Venus Observed
    • For Ginny's Birthday, 1955
    • It was a Sunset Stark and Bare

  • The Lantern Vol. 24, No. 1, November 1955 by Walter W. Montgomery, Eric H. Vollmer, David Hudnut, Bobbe Hunt, Harold McWilliams, Ira Lederman, Barry Bressler, and Karl Billman

    The Lantern Vol. 24, No. 1, November 1955

    Walter W. Montgomery, Eric H. Vollmer, David Hudnut, Bobbe Hunt, Harold McWilliams, Ira Lederman, Barry Bressler, and Karl Billman

    • Marguerites and Memories
    • Union of South Africa - Land of Contrast
    • The Care and Feeding of the Sports Car and the Sport
    • Fifth
    • Quietus
    • The Art of Remaining Awake in Class
    • JOE
    • Artificial Music
    • Helene
    • Through the Looking Glass
    • Two on the Aisle
    • On the P & W

  • The Lantern Vol. 23, No. 3, May 1955 by C.D. Hudnut, W. Scott Taylor, Rosemarie Puleo, Francis Scheirer, Harold Smith, Bert Wendel, Roland Dedekind, Ed Dawkins, Gene Berman, Nance Shumaker, Karl Billman, and R. Wesley Schwemmer

    The Lantern Vol. 23, No. 3, May 1955

    C.D. Hudnut, W. Scott Taylor, Rosemarie Puleo, Francis Scheirer, Harold Smith, Bert Wendel, Roland Dedekind, Ed Dawkins, Gene Berman, Nance Shumaker, Karl Billman, and R. Wesley Schwemmer

    • Les Assassins
    • Golf
    • The Dance
    • Philosophy for the Beginner
    • Spelling - Why Bother
    • The Hooded Paperweight
    • The Wonderful Gizmo
    • The Accident
    • What Happened
    • Old Dog Tilts Her Head
    • Interlude
    • The Monastery Mouse
    • Study in Rhime Royal

  • The Lantern Vol. 23, No. 2, March 1955 by Roland Dedekind, Harold Smith, Maury Hoberman, Bert Wendel, Ismar Schorsch, Nance Shumaker, Charles Hudnut, Loretta Marsella, Karl Billman, and Ann Leger

    The Lantern Vol. 23, No. 2, March 1955

    Roland Dedekind, Harold Smith, Maury Hoberman, Bert Wendel, Ismar Schorsch, Nance Shumaker, Charles Hudnut, Loretta Marsella, Karl Billman, and Ann Leger

    • Roy Blakesee on Mt. Washington
    • The Sound of the Bell
    • A City Dog
    • "Why of Course I Still Read Comic Books," She Said
    • The Challenge
    • Thanks for the Ride
    • Tableau
    • On Necking
    • Be Gone With You O Pestilence of Mine
    • Turning the Pages
    • Now Showing
    • Spinning the Platters

  • The Lantern Vol. 23, No. 1, December 1954 by Harold Smith, Roland Dedekind, Tommy Thompson, Leonard Stockler, Karl Billman, and Charles Hudnut

    The Lantern Vol. 23, No. 1, December 1954

    Harold Smith, Roland Dedekind, Tommy Thompson, Leonard Stockler, Karl Billman, and Charles Hudnut

    • Afternoon Interview
    • The Other Side of the Sun
    • Heorot Revisited
    • The Man of Shadows
    • Observation
    • Time
    • Perfection
    • Country Road
    • Night Rider
    • Elegy
    • The Unspoken
    • To Byron
    • A Star
    • Now Showing
    • Turning the Pages
    • The Strange Success of the Peculiar John Wellington Finchley

  • The Lantern Vol. 22, No. 3, May 1954 by Roland Dedekind, Francis Scheirer, Harold Smith, Marilyn Engleman, Charles Hudnut, Lucy-Jo Malloy, and Mary Louise Killheffer

    The Lantern Vol. 22, No. 3, May 1954

    Roland Dedekind, Francis Scheirer, Harold Smith, Marilyn Engleman, Charles Hudnut, Lucy-Jo Malloy, and Mary Louise Killheffer

    • Thanatos
    • A Nightmare Called Hystery
    • All The Frills and Lace
    • Ba-bee
    • Patrol
    • The Devil You Say
    • When Love Was Light
    • On the Brink
    • Bouquet
    • You Individualist You
    • Beggarwoman
    • Together
    • Plea
    • The City
    • On Visiting A Display of Modern Art
    • Alpha and Omega
    • From The Tower Window

  • The Lantern Vol. 22, No. 2, March 1954 by Francis Schreirer, Helen Gardner, Daniel Kratz, Christian de la Roche, Chloe Oliver, Roland Dedekind, Mary Louise Killheffer, Lucy-Jo Malloy, and Harold Smith

    The Lantern Vol. 22, No. 2, March 1954

    Francis Schreirer, Helen Gardner, Daniel Kratz, Christian de la Roche, Chloe Oliver, Roland Dedekind, Mary Louise Killheffer, Lucy-Jo Malloy, and Harold Smith

    • Checkmate
    • An Impression
    • The Excavation at Ursinus College
    • Chant d'Antomne
    • Impasse At Dick's Dell
    • The Master's Hands
    • Wanderer
    • The Wiser Tongue
    • Time Passing
    • Achoo! Or It's All In Your Head
    • From The Tower Window

  • The Lantern Vol. 22, No. 1, December 1953 by Harold Smith, Dorothy Griffith, Lucy-Jo Malloy, Roland Dedekind, Mary Louise Killheffer, David Hallstrom, Mary Jane Allen, Bobbe Hunt, and Lois Glessner

    The Lantern Vol. 22, No. 1, December 1953

    Harold Smith, Dorothy Griffith, Lucy-Jo Malloy, Roland Dedekind, Mary Louise Killheffer, David Hallstrom, Mary Jane Allen, Bobbe Hunt, and Lois Glessner

    • Mrs. K.
    • The Death of Israel Chauncey
    • The Tramp
    • The Man Who Remembered the Future
    • "Music, When Soft Voices Die..."
    • Cloud-Horses
    • Faith
    • Hymn To What Might Have Been
    • In Autumn
    • Reverie
    • A Lantern
    • A Taste of Perfection
    • A Reverie
    • Small Dog
    • Rhapsody of Life
    • From the Tower Window
    • Ethelred I

  • The Lantern Vol. 21, No. 3, Summer 1953 by Robert Williams, Paul Chalson, William Lukens, Yvonne DuBois, Sally Canan, Lucy-Jo Malloy, Samuel M. Keen, Roland Dedekind, Marna Feldt, and Richard P. Richter

    The Lantern Vol. 21, No. 3, Summer 1953

    Robert Williams, Paul Chalson, William Lukens, Yvonne DuBois, Sally Canan, Lucy-Jo Malloy, Samuel M. Keen, Roland Dedekind, Marna Feldt, and Richard P. Richter

    • Millie and Murph
    • Waxy
    • Nor Bars a Prison Make
    • The Shows at Killapoorsparrow
    • Sahonnet to a Mahodern Sahinger
    • In Each Man: A Collection
    • Mirrors
    • The Offspring of My Song
    • Come Sweet Night
    • A Modern Ballad
    • Uninvited

  • The Lantern Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 1953 by Paul Chalson, Mary Ann Simmendinger, Harold Smith, Roland Dedekind, Helen Yost, William Lukens, Mary Louise Killheffer, Lucy-Jo Malloy, Howard Jones, Sally Canan, Marna Feldt, and Samuel M. Keen

    The Lantern Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 1953

    Paul Chalson, Mary Ann Simmendinger, Harold Smith, Roland Dedekind, Helen Yost, William Lukens, Mary Louise Killheffer, Lucy-Jo Malloy, Howard Jones, Sally Canan, Marna Feldt, and Samuel M. Keen

    • Package from the Past
    • Objective Abstraction No. 1
    • The Streetlamp
    • Journey Home
    • Rendezvous
    • The Admonition
    • Easter Thought
    • Summer Thought
    • The Understanders
    • Nocturne
    • Night and the City
    • Study in Shadow
    • Southern Mountain Song
    • The Introvert
    • Conflict
    • A Moment in Flight
    • Hiatus
    • Night Search
    • To a Cat
    • Lines to a Rejected Contributor
    • The Old Professor

  • The Lantern Vol. 21, No. 1, Fall 1952 by Hal Smith, Ed Abramson, Hal Gold, John Osborn, Harold Smith, Roland Didekind, William Lukens, Phil Lewis, Marna Feldt, Mary Lou Kilheffer, Sally Canan, Richard P. Richter, and Lois Glessner

    The Lantern Vol. 21, No. 1, Fall 1952

    Hal Smith, Ed Abramson, Hal Gold, John Osborn, Harold Smith, Roland Didekind, William Lukens, Phil Lewis, Marna Feldt, Mary Lou Kilheffer, Sally Canan, Richard P. Richter, and Lois Glessner

    • Dolly and Manny
    • The Man on the Stoop
    • Just a Plain, Simple Girl
    • If Damon Runyon Had Reviewed George Meredith's Novel, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel"
    • Two Before Dinner
    • A Treatise on the Noble Art of Warfare
    • My Neighbor, Zakeya
    • Elegy
    • What's This Card For, Offisser?
    • Winter's Loneliness
    • Birth
    • Of Thee I Sting
    • For Your Knowing
    • Beauty Defined
    • Daybreak at Home
    • Mood
    • Leaves
    • Love Recaptured
    • Awake Again
    • Silence
    • Sea-Song
    • The City
    • The Voice of Autumn Earth

  • The Lantern Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 1952 by William Lukens, John Irwin, Harold M. Schoup, Jonni Graf, Fred Baas, Charles J. Stahl, David Hallstrom, Hal Gold, Sally Canan, Mary Yost, Joan Sapp, and William LeKernec

    The Lantern Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 1952

    William Lukens, John Irwin, Harold M. Schoup, Jonni Graf, Fred Baas, Charles J. Stahl, David Hallstrom, Hal Gold, Sally Canan, Mary Yost, Joan Sapp, and William LeKernec

    • Atmosphere
    • On Observation
    • Memories
    • Melvin
    • The Bell Dong's Song, "Marie"
    • Delusion
    • The Student and Dead-Eye Danny Hill
    • Spring Mutiny
    • Lines Written in Rejection Near Maples
    • Spring in Valley Forge
    • The Locust Tree
    • Covered Bridge
    • Active or Passive
    • Stag Night
    • Filler
    • The Spring Lecture
    • Early Migration
    • A Beatitude

  • The Lantern Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 1952 by Jean Stewart, Charles Stahl, William Lukens, Sally Canan, Joane Hamilton Black, David Hallstrom, Philip G. Lewis, Marna Feldt, Jonni Graf, Joan Sapp, and William LeKernec

    The Lantern Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 1952

    Jean Stewart, Charles Stahl, William Lukens, Sally Canan, Joane Hamilton Black, David Hallstrom, Philip G. Lewis, Marna Feldt, Jonni Graf, Joan Sapp, and William LeKernec

    • Linda Rellah, A Modern Fairy Tale With A Moral
    • Phantasy
    • Maiden Flight
    • Death of the Tired Ford
    • The Wall
    • Trolley Travellers
    • Aubade
    • To a Classmate
    • Substitute
    • Recital
    • Airborne
    • New England Summer
    • Mississippi Summer
    • Western Wind, When Wilt Thou
    • When?
    • College, I Love It!
    • Today!
    • Daily Things
    • The Wily Old Philosopher
    • Modern Verse
    • Faded
    • Have You Ever

  • The Lantern Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall 1951 by Charles Jay Stahl, Edward Abramson, Carl Reifeis, Robert Williams, Sally Canan, William Lukens, Joni Graf, David Hallstrom, Joan Sapp, and William LeKernec

    The Lantern Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall 1951

    Charles Jay Stahl, Edward Abramson, Carl Reifeis, Robert Williams, Sally Canan, William Lukens, Joni Graf, David Hallstrom, Joan Sapp, and William LeKernec

    • The Interim
    • The Salami Festival
    • The Little Soldier
    • On the Practical and Esthetic Aspects of the Nose
    • A Study in White
    • Dorm 5-6: Notes
    • Dishwashing
    • Hoorah for Pooh-Bah!
    • To a Young Student
    • A Heavy Bomber Takes Off
    • When Dad Burns the Leaves
    • Fourteen Lines That Aren't a Sonnet
    • Roderick, We All Pine For You!
    • A Young Girl

  • The Lantern Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1951 by Jeremy Sweeton, Joan Sapp, Thomas Horner, John Cheeseman, Murray Grove, Clara Hamm, R. L. Keeler, Roy Foster, Sally Canan, Sam Clover, Lois Glessner, and Robert Jordan

    The Lantern Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1951

    Jeremy Sweeton, Joan Sapp, Thomas Horner, John Cheeseman, Murray Grove, Clara Hamm, R. L. Keeler, Roy Foster, Sally Canan, Sam Clover, Lois Glessner, and Robert Jordan

    • Up in the Air
    • On Considering a Wallet's State of Emptiness
    • You Came from Heaven
    • If At First
    • Memory of Winter Mornings
    • The Night We All Got Drunk
    • Composer Thomas Waller Enters into Heaven
    • Elegy in Times Square
    • To Spring
    • The Cliff of Morality
    • An Evening Drive
    • Liberty
    • Begone
    • Limerick with a Leer
    • Two Allusive Limericks

  • The Lantern Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 1951 by Robert R. Titus, Robert Jordan, Douglas MacMullan, Mary Yost, Lois Carbaugh, Audrey Harte, Sally Canan, David Hallstrom, Lois Glessner, Jeanne Stewart, Ralph Zeigler, and Emile Schmidt

    The Lantern Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 1951

    Robert R. Titus, Robert Jordan, Douglas MacMullan, Mary Yost, Lois Carbaugh, Audrey Harte, Sally Canan, David Hallstrom, Lois Glessner, Jeanne Stewart, Ralph Zeigler, and Emile Schmidt

    • An Address
    • The Departure
    • My First Night in "La Vie Boheme"
    • Sixty-Six
    • The Painting
    • "What Will the Neighbors Say?"
    • Spring Air
    • Lines
    • Sunday Afternoon
    • Through the Glass
    • So Tired
    • Economy
    • Abyss
    • Poems
    • The Old Lady

  • The Lantern Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter 1951 by Caroline Herber, William LeKernec, Lou Cresse, Robert N. Jordan Jr., E. A. Chambers, Carl Donne Young, Sally Canan, David Hallstrom, Joan Sapp, Aubre Givler, and Emile Schmidt

    The Lantern Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter 1951

    Caroline Herber, William LeKernec, Lou Cresse, Robert N. Jordan Jr., E. A. Chambers, Carl Donne Young, Sally Canan, David Hallstrom, Joan Sapp, Aubre Givler, and Emile Schmidt

    • Nevin LaRue
    • There Stands a Wall
    • An Iron God
    • Little Reginald and the Goat Tale
    • The Atom After Dark
    • Lament
    • To
    • Tell Me
    • Eight-Fifteen
    • After Reading Robert Frost
    • New Era
    • Eternity
    • Recollection
    • Two Poems

  • The Lantern Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1950 by Norman B. Reed, Lewis H. Cresse, John Irwin, G. G. Clamer, Richard Gradwohl, Manuel Parseghian, Glenn Haddon, Frank Edwards, Marna Feldt, Sally Cannan, Dave Hallstrom, and Albert J. Mazurkiewicz

    The Lantern Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1950

    Norman B. Reed, Lewis H. Cresse, John Irwin, G. G. Clamer, Richard Gradwohl, Manuel Parseghian, Glenn Haddon, Frank Edwards, Marna Feldt, Sally Cannan, Dave Hallstrom, and Albert J. Mazurkiewicz

    • The Rise and Fall of Mr. Fluff
    • Thoughts by the Sea
    • Equality of Men
    • On Radio Comedians
    • After Hours
    • Rain
    • Morning
    • Escape from Fear
    • Book of Red
    • Poems by a Guy Named Mike
    • We are the People
    • Spirit Disrupted
    • Light
    • Sonnet

  • The Lantern Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1950 by Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, Jeremy O. Sweeton, William Keller, Joseph C. Wismer, Jeanne Stewart, Joe Mann, Dave Hallstrom, and Albert Miglio

    The Lantern Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1950

    Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, Jeremy O. Sweeton, William Keller, Joseph C. Wismer, Jeanne Stewart, Joe Mann, Dave Hallstrom, and Albert Miglio

    • To Pledge Allegiance
    • The Back Porch
    • Love Story
    • Symphony Finale
    • Bruised Hands
    • Defeat
    • Concerning Utility
    • Triplet
    • I Echo the Common Sentiment
    • Heads in Pen and Ink

  • The Lantern Vol. 18, No. 1, Fall 1949 by Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, Walter B. Ross, Douglas Leander, William Mounce, Lou Stefan, Emile Schmidt, Elizabeth Haney, Robert Reichley, G. G. Clamer, Jean Stewart, Sally Canaan, David Hallstrom, and Nelson Mowry

    The Lantern Vol. 18, No. 1, Fall 1949

    Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, Walter B. Ross, Douglas Leander, William Mounce, Lou Stefan, Emile Schmidt, Elizabeth Haney, Robert Reichley, G. G. Clamer, Jean Stewart, Sally Canaan, David Hallstrom, and Nelson Mowry

    • Want, an Old Freedom Unused
    • Is History Bunk?
    • How Things Grow
    • A Real Gone Poem
    • Hish Proves Himself
    • Death? Not Yet!
    • On the Neglect of Victorian Literature
    • The Tradition Lives On
    • To the Other Side
    • Autumn's Panorama
    • Autumn Treasure
    • A Walk
    • Leaves
    • The Moment
    • Dawn
    • Sentiments
    • Dusting

  • The Lantern Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 1949 by Norman B. Reed, Fred Beckhardt, Murray E. Grove, Bernice Harris, Helen Southall, Charles Wetzel, Hal Gold, and Dale C. White

    The Lantern Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 1949

    Norman B. Reed, Fred Beckhardt, Murray E. Grove, Bernice Harris, Helen Southall, Charles Wetzel, Hal Gold, and Dale C. White

    • All the Silver in Taxco
    • The Fall
    • Parlor Games
    • Something There Is
    • Friday Night
    • Evening
    • Checker-Board Country
    • A Noise
    • Expected Up In Heaven Today
    • When Time Has Torn My Youth
    • Impression of Death

  • The Lantern Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring 1949 by Roy Foster, Frank Edwards, J. W. Howse, Joan Verburg, Betty Lou Scheirer, Fay Horner, John B. Martin Jr., Anita Frick, Charles Lyon Chandler, and Charles Wetzel

    The Lantern Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring 1949

    Roy Foster, Frank Edwards, J. W. Howse, Joan Verburg, Betty Lou Scheirer, Fay Horner, John B. Martin Jr., Anita Frick, Charles Lyon Chandler, and Charles Wetzel

    • Psyche
    • Home Country
    • Liberation
    • The Last Haul
    • The Tempting of Willie
    • The Turtle
    • Interlude
    • Black Waters
    • Lines on Abandoned Spring House
    • Afraid
    • Gone is the Winter's Night
    • A Word to the Wise

  • The Lantern Vol. 17, No. 1, Fall 1948 by G. G. Clamer, W. J. Lekernec, Jane Usher, Albert Miglio, Charles Floyd, Albert C. Selke Jr., Bernice Harris, Richard Wentzel, Dale C. White, Jack Thalheimer, and Albert J. Mazurkiewicz

    The Lantern Vol. 17, No. 1, Fall 1948

    G. G. Clamer, W. J. Lekernec, Jane Usher, Albert Miglio, Charles Floyd, Albert C. Selke Jr., Bernice Harris, Richard Wentzel, Dale C. White, Jack Thalheimer, and Albert J. Mazurkiewicz

    • In the Arms of the Sea
    • The Expressed Should Be Repressed
    • Puppy Love
    • Tommy
    • How to Eat a Ravioli Dinner
    • The Divine Blessing
    • On Thunder
    • There Is No Hell
    • Old Love Re-met
    • Autumn Eve
    • Dr. Cornelius Weygandt

 

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