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. 8, No. 3, May 1940

Robert C. Yoh, Virginia Shoffner, Joseph G. Dubuque, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Paul Morris, Valerie H. Green, Evelyn Huber, Franklyn Miller, Esther Hydren, Gladys Heibel, Georgine Haughton, and Winfield S. Smith

• Sonnet for These Days
• Peace Be With You
• Creative Citizenship
• Tony Solves an Ichthyological Problem
• Tippy Tin
• A Surgeon Paints
• Thoughts
• Standing at Ease
• Nature's Mistake
• Tomorrow
• This is Enough
• I Built a Shrine to Love
• Integer
• I Look for Her
The Lantern Vol. 8, No. 2, March 1940

Robert C. Yoh, Harry L. Showalter, Robert J. Weidenhammer, Esther Hydren, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Ernest Muller, Helene Berger, Virginia Shoffner, Joseph D. Chapline Jr., Richard G. Fohl, Evelyn Huber, and Gladys Heibel

• The Music of Life
• The Dice Were Loaded
• Collecting People
• Chemistry and Disease
• Quest
• Comrade
• Entity
• "We Cannot Go On Forever"
• The Problem
• Beside a Campfire
• Smoke
• Sunset on Winnipesaukee and Varied Reflections
• "All's Quiet in the Early Morn"
• Torture
• After the Concert
• Nostalgia
The Lantern Vol. 8, No. 1, December 1939

Esther Hydren, Gladys Heibel, Robert J. Weidenhammer, Robert C. Yoh, Ernest Muller, Evelyn Huber, Valerie H. Green, Helene Berger, and Winfield S. Smith

• Christmas Resurrection
• Autumn's Song
• Henry Cavendish
• The Mystery of Loon Cove
• All Hail, Fair Modesty
• Mischall
• Gift of the Magi
• Camera-Phobia
• One Envying a Poet
• Sonnets
The Lantern Vol. 7, No. 3, June 1939

Valerie H. Green, Esther Hydren, Robert C. Yoh, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Kenneth Snyder, Evelyn Huber, Robert B. N. Peck, Marion Byron, Gladys Heibel, and Ellen McMurtrie

• Commencement Sonnet
• Largo Appassionato
• More Sonnets to Earth
• Vladimir
• Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• Dark Lives
• Enter Mr. Smithingham II
• A Character is Sketched
• Sonnet
• Out of the Dawn
• Wistaria
• Poem Without a Name
• You Have Loved the Night
The Lantern Vol. 7, No. 2, March 1939

Evelyn Huber, Kenneth Bishop, Robert B. Peck, Valerie H. Green, Robert C. Yoh, Harry L. Showalter, Gladys Heibel, Roberta Byron, Mabel B. Ditter, Ernest Muller, Georgine Haughton, Joseph G. Dubuque, and Dorothy Kinsey Shisler

• Editorial
• Easter Eggs
• Fever
• Sonnets to the Planet We Call Earth
• Asking Her Father
• New Hampshire Ghost Story
• Mary
• On Approaching Death
• On Turning Over a New Leaf
• In Defense of Americanism
• What is this Love?
• Martyrs of Progress
• Recurring
• Splinters
The Lantern Vol. 7, No. 1, December 1938

Ellen McMurtrie, Kenneth Bishop, Esther Hydren, Roberta Byron, C. Kenneth Snyder, Alfred Gemmell, Evelyn Huber, Harry L. Showalter, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Ernest Muller, Robert C. Yoh, and Dorothea Deininger

• The Greatest Gift of All
• Peace
• Two Bums
• October Paints the Valleys
• Have the Notes Died?
• America's Defeatism Complex
• Tahiti Jacques
• When We Take Heed of Life
• From "The Sky Image"
• Still Moments
• Noel
• Foreign Hills
• Just Before
The Lantern Vol. 6, No. 3, June 1938

Richard Yahraes, Evelyn Huber, Esther Hydren, C. Kenneth Snyder, Georgine Haughton, Robert C. Yoh, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Alfred Gemmell, and Elizabeth M. Seidle

• Editorial
• A Senior Muses
• Affinity
• From Darkness Into Light
• Just an Old Bell!
• Memories of a Friend
• To a Small Animal as it Passes
• The Sky and I
• Between the Mountain and the River
• Solace
• Three Little Islands Far From Home
• Beachcomber
The Lantern Vol. 6, No. 2, March 1938

Frank J. Tornetta, Georgine Haughton, Vernon D. Groff, Mary Hyde, Mabel B. Ditter, Robert C. Yoh, Warren Fuerman, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, Eli Broidy, Evelyn Huber, and Kenneth Snyder

• Among Our Contributors
• Of Special Interest To You!
• Jenny Lee
• The Arguments Against Isolation
• The Note
• Visit of the Grandchildren
• One Finds God
• To The North Lies New Hampshire
• The Two Camps in Washington
• Substitutes
• At Times It Seems So Very Strange
• Episode on a Lake Shore
• My Campus Song
• Irony
• A Chinese Mystery
The Lantern Vol. 6, No. 1, December 1937

Roberta Byron, Ernest Muller, Mabel B. Ditter, Elizabeth M. Seidle, Jane Poling, Frank J. Tornetta, Vernon D. Groff, Edward L. French, Evelyn Huber, Robert B. Peck, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, C. Kenneth Snyder, Robert E. Yoh, Eli Broidy, Ruth Grauert, and Charles Steinmetz

• After Thinking Things Over
• Ho! Ho! The Mistletoe!
• Unrealized Dreams
• Two Preeminent Victorians
• The Thing
• Progression
• It Wasn't in the Lines
• He Was the Most Perfect Man
• College (C)lasses
• Robins and Roses
• The Commuter
• When the Rose is Dead
• Truth in Print
• Alias Mike Romanoff
• Winslow Homer
• When I Was Young
• Maurice Evans, a Great Shakespearean
• Among Our Contributors
• Of Manx and Man
• A Sanguinary Pirate
• Conversation Has an Adventure
• "Ursinus' Neediest Case"
The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 3, May 1937

Jane Poling, E. M. Huber, Jack Maloney, Edward L. French, Valerie H. Green, C. Kenneth Snyder, Frank J. Tornetta, Mabel B. Ditter, Robert C. Yoh, Bertram Lutz, H. Spencer Halberstadt, Catherine Steele, Roberta Byron, Vernon D. Groff, and Alfred Gemmell

• Dedication
• Dr. McClure: An Ursinus Man
• Roar, O Wind!
• To the Ladies!
• The Futility of Dying
• The Symbolism of the British Crown
• Oh!
• "It Might Have Been"
• Treat Yourself?
• Three Writers
• Hawaii in June
• On Being a Twin
• Black Magic
• Triangle
• Who Longs?
• A Son Passes
• "Sing an Old-Fashioned Song"
• Questioning
• An Argument About a Fish
• That Morning Eye-Opener
• Scoop for the "Sun"
• The Dead Do Not Die Once
• Give Us Time
The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 2, March 1937

Marjorie Brosz, Betty Sacks, Edward L. French, C. Kenneth Snyder, Evelyn Huber, Keith M. Thompson, Jack Maloney, Dorothy Burton, Richard Yahraes, Valerie H. Green, Elizabeth Ballinger, Frank J. Tornetta, Marjorie Bell, Vernon D. Groff, Helen Smith, and Jean P. Wingate

• Frame of Mind: An Editorial
• Sahara
• Memories
• Tears of Blood
• A Review of Gielgud's Hamlet
• What is This Thing Called Swing
• Oriental Impressions
• Campus Rhymes
• Death of a Soldier
• Should We Denounce the "Scab"
• Descent to Celia
• Blood for Sale!
• To a Winter Day
• They Met at Sunset
• A Week With the Weekly
• My Alarm Clock
• Chasing the "Blues"
The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 1, December 1936

Vernon D. Groff, Edward L. French, Robert E. Yoh, Eugene Shelley, Evelyn Huber, Jean L. Ulsh, Richard Yahraes, Dorothy Burton, Jack Maloney, Mitchell Fenimore, Frank J. Fornetta, Keith M. Thompson, Valerie H. Green, and Mabel B. Ditter

• All of Us
• Public Dance
• In Tibet, of All Places
• Thoughts
• Subterranean Conflict on the Campus
• Out, Out Into Fragrance and Sweetness
• My Soul Steals Out to Meet You In the Night
• Bored Young Lady
• Guay Shin's Prayer
• On Playing Ping-Pong
• The Love-Life of One Cat and the Death of Another
• My Lady
• Danger! Germs Working!
• The Wolves
• Letters from India
• With Apologies to Hamlet
• The Dream
The Lantern Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1936

Eugene Shelley, Charles Francis Ehly, Utahna Basow, Elizabeth M. Seidle, Charlotte R. Tyson, Vernon D. Groff, Florence A. Roberts, H. Spencer Halberstadt, Paul R. Shelly, Richard Yahraes, and Virginia Shoffner

• Dr. Omwake as his Friends See Him: A Letter from Dr. James M. Anders ; An Interview with Dean Kline
• George Leslie Omwake, Educator and Churchman
• The Story of Ursinus
• "Way Back When"
• Editorial: "We Look Before and After"
• Reminiscences of an Ex-Storekeeper's Daughter
• The Tale of a Toper, or How the Little Stone Went Rolling
• Book Review: May I Present?
• Time Out, Please
• Youth at the Crossroads
• Of Candy Bars and Tears
• Reflections
• To a Star
• It Takes Two to Study the Moon
The Lantern Vol. 4, No. 2, March 1936

Beryl L. Goodman, Charles Francis Ehly, Vernon D. Groff, Walter B. Kelly, H. Spencer Halberstadt, Mitchell Fenimore, Mabel B. Ditter, Elizabeth McBride, Jessie F. Wilson, Alfred Gemmell, Edward L. French, Edwin Frey, Arthur F. Martin, and Sylvan Grotte

• Cooperative Democracy
• Fantasy
• Drama: "Porgy and Bess"
• Foreign Entanglements
• The Kibitzer
• My Gallery of Old Folks
• My Friend, Mark Twain
• Jimmy and Waffles
• Reminiscence
• Gold Dust
• After Twenty Centuries
• "All the World's a Stage"
• Early Medicine
The Lantern Vol. 4, No. 1, December 1935

Grace Lees, Edward L. French, Dorothy Witmer, Richard Yahraes, Elmer W. J. Schmitt, Mitchell Fenimore, Dorothea Benner, Elizabeth McBride, Charles Francis Ehly, F. Bradford Stone, Roberta Byron, and Vernon D. Groff

• A Challenge to All
• The Tree
• College With a Purpose
• Midnight Clouds
• Exultation
• Pagan Festival
• Ah Childhood!
• From Brain to Brawn
• Pictures in the Sky
• Winds
• In Absolution
• Clouds in a Hot, Red Sky
• "Out of Douche and Latin"
• Satan Calls a Conference
• Emptiness
• A Portly Gentleman Intrudes
The Lantern Vol. 3, No. 3, June 1935

Elizabeth McBride, Edwin Frey, Ruth I. Hamma, Richard Yahraes, William H. Tempest, Frank J. Tornetta, and Thomas Hepner

• Scholarship's Reward
• Thus Endeth
• Even in Dover
• An Essay Submitted for the Paisley Prize: The Moral Standard to Which We Must Appeal in Judging Whether a Lie is Ever Justifiable
• Towers of France
• An Essay Submitted for the Paisley Prize
• Initial Adventures in Psychiatry
• In Commemoration of "Comus"
• The Amish Maiden
The Lantern Vol. 3, No. 2, March 1935

Wilhelmina Meinhardt, Jesse Heiges, Dorothea Benner, Harry F. Fenstermacher, Gilbert J. Bartholomew, Paul R. Shelly, Ruth I. Hamma, Elizabeth McBride, Utahna Basow, Dorothy E. Horne, Margaret L. Shively, and Mitchell Fenimore

• Puppets of Propaganda
• Reluctance
• Reflections From My Diary
• Reverie
• Bash Turner Enters the Limelight
• The College Students' Obligation
• The Schwenkfelders
• Love's Desire
• Verse
• On the Squirt of a Grapefruit
• Pioneers!
• Whither Fraternities?
• Mary Peters: A Book Review
• Different as Night and Day
• Ode to an Alley Cat
The Lantern Vol. 3, No. 1, December 1934

John H. Brown Jr., Wilhelmina Meinhardt, Dorothy Witmer, Eugene Shelley, Ruth I. Hamma, Ione B. Hausmann, Regina S. Romberger, Elizabeth McBride, Dorothy E. Horne, Kathleen Black, and Paul Williams

• Magic Words
• The Old Trappe Church
• The "Light of Life"
• Edwin Markham: Impressions
• Increment (A Christmas Thought)
• Our Christmas
• What Price Forgetting?
• Autumn
• The Old Parson
• Zacharias Ursinus
• Inspiration
• A Scrap-Book of Memories
• A Campus Saunter
The Lantern Vol. 2, No. 3, June 1934

Joyce L. Strickland, Sara E. Brown, Harry F. Brian, Ione B. Haussmann, Sylvia Acri, Anna May Brooks, Edith Cressman, and Ruth I. Hamma

• Looking Backward and Forward
• "Hahd on de Nerves"
• My Lavender Lady
• The Perpetual Borrower
• Into the Depths
• "The Best There Is"
• I Wonder
• A Day Out of a German Boy's Life
• Book Review: "Work of Art"
• Fear
• Early Summer (A Sketch)
The Lantern Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1934

Rose-Marie Brubaker, Joyce L. Strickland, Ruth I. Hamma, Anna May Brooks, Keturah R. Donalson, Nadine Jones, Sara E. Brown, Dorothy Witmer, and Virginia A. Meyer

• Fulfillment Through Expression
• Ole Man Ennis
• Nos Illusions by Philippe Vallee
• A Celtic May Day Festival
• Dew Drops
• Baker Street Fiction
• March Winds
• Winter Sunset
• Book Review: No Second Spring
• A Thought
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Illustration
The Lantern Vol. 2, No. 1, December 1933

Naomi M. Clark, Keturah R. Donalson, Joyce L. Strickland, Ruth I. Hamma, William H. Tempest, Isobel W. Wilt, Jesse Heiges, Mary E. Myers, Dorothy F. Patterson, and Rose-Marie Brubaker

• Petition
• Keep it Burning!
• Jes' Before Christmas
• Noel: Translation from Theophile Gautier
• A Young Jew Meets Jesus
• Book Review: Little Man, What Now?
• Book Review: Thunder and Dawn
• Continuity
• La Veille de Noel (Reflexions d'un Provincial)
• Noel Sceptique par Jules LaFargue
• Horizon
• Winter Night
• Linoleum Cuts
The Lantern Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1933

Clair Hubert, Ruth I. Hamma, Gladys Urich, Anna May Brooks, Sara E. Brown, Keturah R. Donalson, Alfred L. Creager, Ruth Roth, Joyce L. Strickland, Sylvia Liverant, Lewis Peters, and Anna Grimm

• Remember: Translation of "Rappelle-toi" by Alfred de Musset
• Lighting the Lantern
• Footfalls
• To a Lovely Lady
• The Sons of Martha
• Strategy
• Lumine Lunae
• Poetry in Retrospect
• Nirvana
• A Domestic Episode
• At Night
• Haman and Hitler
• This is What He Said
• Bookocracy
• Four Loves
• Cities and Personalities