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. 16, No. 3, Spring 1948
R. C. Wentzel, Steven Arvanitis, W. E. Turner, Alvin Knepper, Nancy Twining, Jean Anne Schultz, Louis D. Stefan, William Keller, Bernice Harris, Helen Southall, Barbara Dietz, George Bock, and Charles Wetzel
• Not So Light
• Babba's Luck
• Winter Night
• God Hath Wrought
• Less Than Trivia
• What is Progress?
• Betrayal
• The Key
• Journey From a Star
• War and Peace
• Experiment in Prose Poetry
• Dawn
• Eternal Question
• My Gift
• Jazz Fantasy
• M.W. Witmer -
The Lantern Vol. 16, No. 2, December 1947
Ray Hallman, Dale White, Fay Horner, Raymond Tanner, James B. Moore, Steven Arvanitis, G. G. Clamer, D. C. White, Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, and R. C. Wentzel
• A Little Light
• Traitor's Son
• The Comeback
• Wolf-Dog
• Lucky Harry
• Security or Progress
• To Tell a Story
• Endless
• What Purpose, Life?
• I Would Not Say
• Adult Farewell
• Springtime Fields
• M.W. Armstrong -
The Lantern Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 1947
Walter Turner, Ronnie L. Sare, Russell Berry, G. G. Clamer, Arthur Barker, Charles H. Williamson, Alvin Knepper, Raymond Tanner, Leon Urdang, W. E. Turner, Robert Barroll, Helen Southall, A. J. Mazurkiewicz, Jim Mitchell, and R. G. Jacobsen
• A Little Light
• Social Solidarity
• The Struggle
• 1949 Report
• Blues
• Angel's Wings
• Street Death
• The Giant
• Not Alone
• "B" or Something
• After Argument
• Friendship
• Built That Way
• The Passing
• Freshman
• Asleep
• John J. Heilemann -
The Lantern Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 1947
Morton Felsenstein, D. Kohlhas, Robert Juppe, Dale C. White, Rosine Ilgenfritz, Fay Horner, Harry G. Schalck, A. J. Mazurkiewietz, Nelson Yeakel, Barbara Deitz, Russell H. Berry Jr., and R. C. Wentzel
• On Sleeping at Lectures
• So You Want Security
• Mild and Bitters
• The Child April
• Helgoland
• His Majesty, Tabby
• January Interval
• A Friend or Two
• Wish in June
• The Search
• Jack of 54 and Davey Jones
• Song of the Earth
• Donald Gay Baker
• The Dilemma by the Horns
• Psychology -
The Lantern Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 1947
Barbara Leon, W. E. Turner, Ronnie L. Sare, Barbara Deitz, John Burton, Richard Wentzel, Charles H. Williamson, Stanley Small, Bob Juppe, Kathleen McCullough, Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, and Raymond Tanner
• Midsummer Afternoon's Dream
• Lost Love
• The Rocket
• "Speak Now---"
• "Unique Experience"
• The Exile
• Chronology
• Procrustean Dike
• A Faeble
• The Paris Story
• Inspiration
• Gently Spoken
• On Shaving -
The Lantern Vol. 15, No. 1, Fall 1946
R. C. Wentzel, Norman Dean Evans, Ronnie Sare, Alvin Duke Knepper, Barbara Deitz, Nancy Twining, George O. Frey Jr., Rosine Ilgenfritz, Naida Nelson, and Nelson Yeakel
• Public, Speaking
• Concept
• The Storm
• Yes Sir!
• Messengers of Death
• The Anonymous Letter
• "Best Trust the Happy Moments"
• Disillusionment
• The Man With the Water-Brown Eyes
• Poetry
• Who Knows? -
The Lantern Vol. 14, No. 3, June 1946
Irene Suflas, Richard C. Wentzel, Lois Goldstein, Joan Wilmot, Bette Marshall, Ronnie Sare, Helen Hafeman, Barbara Deitz, and Kenneth Marion
• Girl on the Park Bench
• To a God Unknown
• Atomic Concept
• To a Swan
• Mimi and Me
• Conversation Between Thought & Mind
• The Prices These Days!
• The Magic Pebbles
• Awe at the Beauty of Spring
• Faith of the Hungry
• Huey Fallow
• Sketches
• Narcissa -
The Lantern Vol. 14, No. 2, February 1946
Helen Hafeman, Lois Goldstein, Marjorie Haimbach, Helen Derewianka, Helen Gorson, Kenneth Marion, Herb Reichlin, Irene Suflas, Charlene Taylor, Barbara Deitz, Arthur Barker, Bill Nickel, and Betsy Shumaker
• Dog Daze
• Locomotion
• The Battle
• Thoughts at Midnight
• We Have a Race to Run
• A Parable
• Darkness at Dawn
• Room for Error
• Elegy Americana
• Will This Happen Here
• Last Mission
• Free Trade
• Love Letter -
The Lantern Vol. 14, No. 1, December 1945
Betsy Shumaker, Irene Suflas, Helen Gorson, Rhoda Klein, Nelson Yeakel, Helen Hafeman, Ronnie Sare, John Trevaskis, Joan Wilmot, Lois Goldstein, Lt. B.L. Garris, Marjorie Williams, Margaret Oelschlager, and George Otto Frey Jr.
• Editorial
• The Medal
• Pain
• Wonder
• Warmth
• Memory Lingers
• Morning
• Watch the Birdie
• Poems
• The War Dogs of the Devildogs
• Joy in Every Heart
• To Live in Hearts
• The Operation
• Moderately Well Done
• Steak is King
• Grateful America? -
The Lantern Vol. 13, No. 3, June 1945
Jane Van Horn, Nancy Twining, George O. Frey Jr., Rosine Ilgenfritz, Betsy Shumaker, Henriette T. Walker, Elizabeth J. Cassatt, E. Richard Harris, Beverly Cloud, Richard Hay, and Helen Hafeman
• Night Shift
• To John
• The Challenge
• My Native Land
• Dear to My Heart
• Plaint
• Peace
• Ode to a Soldier
• Crossing
• Alternative
• Mankind's Universal Disease
• Chips
• No Sense -
The Lantern Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1945
Helen Hafeman, Elizabeth J. Cassatt, William McE. Miller Jr., Ruth Hydren, Jane VanHorn, Constance Johnson, Irene Suflas, Albert F. Rothwell, Joan Wilmot, and Henry K. Haines
• The Littlest
• A Page of Poetry: Blasphemy, Chase, Loss
• Dead End
• Tribute
• Unconquerable Destiny
• Diagnoses: Paranoia, Paresis, Acute Mania, Catatonia
• "We Regret to Inform You..."
• Crossroads
• The Coming of Awareness
• The House
• I Knew, I Knew, I Knew It All the Time
• "Believest Thou This?" -
The Lantern Vol. 13, No. 1, October 1944
Betty Tyson, Henry K. Haines, Richard E. Hunter, Henriette T. Walker, Elizabeth J. Cassatt, and Benny van Acker
• One Doctor's Story
• Sonnet for a Friend
• Lines and a Sonnet
• Chant
• Circus Impressions
• Spring Comes Late -
The Lantern Vol. 12, No. 3, June 1944
Constance Johnson, Beverly E. Cloud, Richard Hunter, Henry K. Haines, Helen M. Gorson, Ethel Cunningham, Rosine Ilgenfritz, Emily Greenawald, Joan Wilmot, Elizabeth J. Cassatt, Emily Williams, Ruth Hydren, and Alice R. Haas
• A Peek Through a Byberry Window
• Fragment
• My Grudge Against the Fiction Detective
• Haunting Refrain
• The World and I
• They Said
• The Brook
• "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them": 1944 Fogel Prize Essay
• Why
• Green Leaf
• Night Drama
• In That Same Hour
• The Greeks Had a Word For It
• The Call of War
• The Promise of a Pearl
• The Apiary -
The Lantern Vol. 12, No. 2, March 1944
Fred Knieriem, Richard C. Wentzel, Ethel Cunningham, Richard Hunter, Carolyn Kirby, Henry K. Haines, Elizabeth Jane Cassatt, Henriette Walker, Newton Hudson, Helen Hafemann, Evan Snyder, Helen Gorson, Joy Harter, Joan Wilmot, Ruth Hydren, and Marjorie Williams
• Save in His Own Country
• Philosopher and Soldier
• Soap Bubbles
• "Who is my Brother?"
• A Real Sea-Captain
• Quatrain on Solitude
• Wind Ahead
• Jewel Song
• The Sail, a Translation
• They Also Serve
• Ever the Twain
• After the Rain
• The Low-Down on Electronics
• Sing, My Heart
• Interlude
• Unconquerable Soul
• The Covenant
• The Lost Warriors
• Fragment
• Arrival -
The Lantern Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1944
Leonard Schwartzstein, Joan Wilmot, Elizabeth Jane Cassatt, Barbara Cooke, Helen Gorson, Catherine Fremont, Constance Johnson, Carl Baumann, Beverly Cloud, Henry K. Haines, Richard Hunter, and Rosine Ilgenfritz
• In the Den of the Titans
• Lass of Dimoch
• For One Gone West
• Tropical New Year
• Nightfall
• Hope From the Blue
• Christmas Shopping, a Retrospective Glance
• What Makes a Wing Lift?
• 201 Main Street
• Paradox
• Stabilizing Americans
• Sky-Islands
• With Timbrel and Dance
• Jazz
• The Grave, a Translation -
The Lantern Vol. 11, No. 3, May 1943
Constance Johnson, Henry K. Haines, Ethel Cunningham, Elizabeth J. Cassatt, Homer Koch, Ruth Hydren, Betty Freeman, and Henrietta Walker
• Women's Ward: Byberry
• Ballad of Courtin'
• Burnished Armor
• A Tribute
• The Aeolian Harp
• There is a Tide
• Translation of a Greek Drinking Song
• Query
• Lemuel Lepidoptera
• Quatrain
• Ode to Spring
• Though You're Far Away -
The Lantern Vol. 11, No. 2, March 1943
Carl A. Schwartz, Elizabeth Jane Cassatt, Richard C. Wentzel, Raymond Lockhart, Barbara Cooke, Ethel M. Cunningham, Marion Hamilton, Mary-Beth Bookhout, Carl B. Hoffman, and Ruth Hydren
• Hypnosis-A Study in Sleep
• Ursinellins
• Senorita Luna
• Realization
• The Days of Ofelia
• Often a Bridesmaid
• Unfinished Symphony
• Interview with a Wood-Carver
• A Wrong-Doing?
• Our War Aims
• Singleness
• Departure
• Soldier to a Worried Mother -
The Lantern Vol. 11, No. 1, December 1942
Daniel N. Wood, Mary-Beth Bookhout, Raymond Lockhart, Robert Ihrie, Glen Stewart, Ruth Hydren, Homer W. Koch, Richard C. Wentzel, and Carol Swartley
• Friends of the Aquarium
• Espionage
• Fuss-Budget
• Dress Blues
• Alone
• One Easy Lesson in How Not to Study
• A Thumbtack Sketch
• One Star
• A Colonial Inn
• Thoughts on a Dark Day
• Query
• Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
• Sunsets -
The Lantern Vol. 10, No. 3, May 1942
Betty Freeman, Adele Kuntz, Eileen Smith, Gladys Heibel, Homer Koch, Norma Kronfeld, Jean L. Patterson, Albert Wells, Elizabeth Jane Cassatt, and Marjorie Foster
• Isn't This Fine Weather?
• Girls' Rules Through Twenty Years
• Lost: Imagination--Gained: Sanitation
• Ursinus During the First World War
• Inspirations From a Concert Hall
• Brother Jones
• The Sea and Cloud and Sky--No More
• Literary Prattle
• War and Memories
• Spring -
The Lantern Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1942
Inge Wesemann, Robert Ihrie, William H. Sutcliffe, Elizabeth Jane Cassatt, Andrew Souerwine, William Daniel, Norma Kronfeld, Jean L. Patterson, Betty Reese, Franklyn Miller, Gladys Heibel, Roberta Guinness, and Margaret Brown
• Victory
• Bobleenatris
• Eve, the Apple Polisher
• Fame
• Rats!
• Invasion
• Saga of Deeptown
• "Candide"
• Wiffenpfooph-Hunting
• War
• The Conch
• Pantomime
• Rain
• Song of the Little People
• The Distant Drums
• Advertisements -
The Lantern Vol. 10, No. 1, December 1941
Barbara Cooke, Helene Berger, Ralph Mendenhall, E. Mae Whitney, Garnet Adam, Jean L. Patterson, Gladys Heibel, Emily Kehoe, Elizabeth Jane Cassatt, Ethel Cunningham, and Eleanor Grubb
• Misty
• The Evils of Initiations
• Ursinus, Fifty Years Ago
• My Conversion
• Our Gang
• From Rabble to Royalty
• "So You Want to be an Editor!"
• Tempo
• A Musician's Allegory
• Flotsam
• The Years
• Common Things
• Sea Moods
• Aunt Agatha's Pillow
• Peace at Autumn Twilight -
The Lantern Vol. 9, No. 3, May 1941
Jane Hartman, Esther Hydren, Marion Witmer, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Joseph Chaplin, D.J. Newhard, Gladys Heibel, Offise Wack, Mary Hyde, Marian Kriebel, and Virginia Schoffner
• The Deluge
• I Am the Ecstasy of Night
• Nocturne
• The Killer
• A Proposal
• On Plastering
• Spring Dilemma
• To the First Robin
• Pictorial
• A Philosopher's Parable
• Richard
• Commencement
• "I Want a Pair of High Tops"
• Past
• Hypothesis -
The Lantern Vol. 9, No. 2, March 1941
Dillwyn Darlington, Nadine Sturges, Fred Binder, Gladys Heibel, Esther Hydren, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, James Barbash, and Winfield S. Smith
• Writing for Americanism
• Garden by Guarantee
• The Sporting Way
• Holding it Pliz!
• I Collect Ghost Towns
• Song of Sorrow
• Beauty is Like a Sword of Fire
• The Little Man Who Was Always There
• Let Me Wear White
• A Monkey's Business
• Spring Love Song
• There's One Born Every Minute
• To Joe, The Happy Extrovert -
The Lantern Vol. 9, No. 1, December 1940
Esther Hydren, Charles Denney, Edward Knettler, Robert Ihrie, Paul Wise, Dillwyn Darlington, Georgine Haughton, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Marie Marone, Jean Patterson, and Gladys Heibel
• Which Shall Be To All People
• Despair
• Ego
• Echoes
• Pacifism
• On Conscription
• Humanity, Incorporated
• In the Calm of the Past
• Too Many Drinks Spoil the Cook
• Winter
• Gateway to Heaven
• On Foot Through Chinatown
• Thoughts by the Fire
• Eternal Truth