Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus College news was first published in the Ursinus College Bulletin until 1902. In that year, the Ursinus Weekly took over as the primary means of disseminating news about the College. Eventually becoming an entirely student-run newspaper, the Weekly continued publication until 1978 when the name was officially changed to The Grizzly. The Ursinus College Grizzly continues to be published today as the student-run newspaper.

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The Ursinus Weekly, October 18, 1943

Joy Harter and Dick Clover

College thespians will stage play November 12, 13 • Bears upset favored Temple even in rainy night contest at Owl stadium • Chorus to give concert at college November 4 • Frosh to begin program Oct. 25: New V-12 men to report Nov. 1; student enrollment totals 540 • Civilians to graduate; V-12 men will leave for training schools • V-12 unit receives war bond pennant • F&M, Willow Grove win over Ursinus • Soccermen to play Oct. 23 • Hockey prospects bright • McCausland is tennis champ • Frat-sorority banners adorn gym as ninety couples dance
The Ursinus Weekly, September 20, 1943

Joy Harter

Swarthmore tames bears' eleven, 12-0, in curtain raiser • Semi-formal dance Oct. 2 after naval training game • Seeded men down rivals in tourney • "Arsenic and Old Lace" to be given by Curtain Club early in November: Choose Broadway hit as first; Anderson and Cooke share leads • Officers of Navy reveal past life: Lt. Miner was western educator, Lt. Coan interested in athletics • Library receives 2000 new books • Coeds are to return early for autumn sports program • Mrs. Miller joins staff as Dr. McClure's secretary • Rec center offers relaxation to students woozy from work • Soccer candidates report • New Supply Store to open soon
The Ursinus Weekly, August 23, 1943

Joy Harter and George D. Miner

Upperclassmen rout frosh thrice in hardball tilts: Freshmen power stopped cold as Jack Yost and Dean Steward gain easy mound victories • Naval unit shows drill improvement • Supply store enlarges to handle increased business and new services • Assembly sessions are well attended: 85 laymen and ministers present for 36th meeting • Shreiner and "612" softball victors • Civilian students slated to enter med. schools • 1943 Weekly editors announce engagements • Navy carries bear's hopes as grid season approaches • A Babe Ruth called into court on charges of tennis racket • Ursinus all-star defeat Navy softballers, 5-1
The Ursinus Weekly, July 26, 1943

Robert Tredinnick and Fred Knieriem

Navy men battle Curtis clouters as season opens • Penn names Kellett basketball head • Nearly 350 students and sailors enroll for sixteen-week semester • Summer assembly meets August 2-9 • Day studies redecorated girls help to make changes • Curtain Club prepares for coming season • Students recondition courts in preparation for tennis • Weekly to be monthly for summer term • Sophs begin frosh initiation • Y's sponsor weekly dances; rec center is opened • Staiger and Mann appointed as instructors in science • Navy trainees lead busy life as V-12 program commences
The Ursinus Weekly: The College at War, June, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr. and Garfield Sieber Pancoast

The American college at war: America's youngest dean of men shows how the college has geared itself to meet the needs of a nation at war • Lest we forget • The Navy at Ursinus • The 10 best stories of the Weekly, 1902-43 • Students in wartime • Ursinus: 1917 and 1943 • Servicemen's directory • Professor for 50 years
The Ursinus Weekly, May 17, 1943

Marion Bright and Robert Quay

Dr. Lewis C. Scheffey addresses graduates at seventy-third commencement exercises • Goodyear offers women positions • Students donate sixty-five pints of blood to Army • Portrait of Dean unveiled Saturday • Reverend Lampe speaks at baccalaureate • English Club draws for books at meeting • Blazers and medal awarded at annual WAA installation • Debaters elect Knieriem • Two win open scholarships • Associated Press awards second place to Weekly • Forum Committee elects officers for summer, fall • F. & M. to hear Dr. McClure • Physical Education Club has picnic • Students aid charities • Robert Ihrie and Alvin Creitz lead graduates • What about Russia? • Tredinnick will edit Weekly this summer • Next year • Remember me • Society notes • Men finish intramural games; Basketball program is success • Frosh-juniors win in baseball contest • Girls lose one game all year; Three teams are undefeated • Frosh-juniors take track meet easily • Softball club is unbeaten as girls down Swarthmore • Unbeaten Ursinus lassies win 3-2 over Swarthmore • Tennis players beat Penn in spite of high winds • Services held for Swift • Baccalaureate degrees
The Ursinus Weekly, May 3, 1943

Marion Bright, Glen Stewart, Robert Quay, and Joy Harter

WSGA has dinner for Ursinus women to install officers • Combined Y's present illustrated lecture at vespers Sunday night • May Day celebration features coronation ceremony, plays • 60 students sign to donate blood • United aircraft offers engineering fellowships • Schwartz, Fairlie chosen to head Y next semester • Former Ursinus athlete killed while in training • Frosh debaters present trial at annual banquet • Phys-edders to return for fall sport program • Prospective students take exams on open house day • Scope of IRC explained by Dr. White at banquet • Freeland 305 "jinxed" as six leave in past year • Navy to interview 17 men • Dramatic fraternity adds six members tomorrow • France forever speaker is refugee from German prison camp in Europe • Ruby will be out May 15, says Curtis • Walter Sanborn addresses "Weekly" banquet Monday • Y heads announce new committees • Pre-meds hear Dr. Appleton speak on dental diseases • English Club draws for books tonight • Observant Oscar dispenses dope on what a plane spotter spots • Frosh-juniors lose to soph-seniors, 4-0; Grau pitches no-hitter • Tennis team downs Temple; high wind handicaps coeds • Shreiner-Clamer leads girls' softball league • Ursinus girls beat Bryn Mawr varsity • Snell's belles turn aside Penn girls 23-12 in spite of playing indoor game • Phys Ed Club plans picnic • Commandos go outside to sniff spring odors • Girls elect Jane Kircher and Tinker Harmer to WAA • Curtain Club loses stage manager as Clark D. Moore graduates
The Ursinus Weekly, April 26, 1943

Marion Bright, Walter Hunt, Dean Evans, Eleanor Grubb, and Julia Ludwick

College thespians to give two plays as climax to May Day celebration • Year book published by France forever for current year • Crowning of May queen Nancy Landis to highlight Mother's Day Saturday • Rev. Tovey downs "might rules right" • Musical portrays Easter scriptures • Girls draw for rooms tonight and tomorrow • Walter Sanborn to speak at annual Weekly banquet • Volunteers donate blood • Education 5-6 scheduled for September-October • Dr. Appleton will address pre-med society Thursday • Phys-edders to swim in Norristown Wednesday • Dramatists elect officers • Speaker to show slides at vespers Sunday night • Men debaters reorganize; to hold banquet Thursday • Girls' varsities to open season with Penn and Temple teams • Track meet will decide class champs and winners of intramural plaque • Bayne is undefeated in college competition after four seasons • Men begin baseball games • Golfers to have tourney if enough players report • Shreiner-Clamer takes close softball tilt from 612-Maples • Girls to play off matches • Miss Nat Hogeland guides students riding each week • Keep courts in condition • Student enjoys vacations thoroughly but needs rest after reaching Ursinus • Students to visit library of pastor near Norristown • German Club to entertain • WSGA to install officers
The Ursinus Weekly, April 19, 1943

Marion Bright, Dean Evans, Betty Brown, and William H. Daniels

Judges chose girls to portray roles in May pageant • Thespians to give two Barrie plays • Dean Steward will head men's council; Mildred Halbruegge wins WAA election • College will return stamps for Easter • Y officers installed at vespers service • Medical relief group asks students for biology kits • Lenten speaker interprets Jesus' dreams as universal • Ursinus TKA cancels debating conference • Choir and Y's present Easter service tonight • Dr. Theo. Herman speaks to brotherhood of St. Paul • Women debates accept twelve new members • France forever movement represents upholders of nation's pre-war spirit • Students under 21 need parents' ok to give blood • Exchanges placed in library • Penn dean to speak here • Softball tilts begin for dorm players • Spring season starts for women's sports with varied program • Attention, girls!! • Men line up baseball teams to determine class champs • Girls lost only two tennis matches in last six years of intercollegiates • Norwegian girl tells startling story of life in Europe under Nazi heel • Beardwood elects officers • Dr. White reviews book • Music Club now organizing Y sing booklet of 53 songs • German Club plans social • Hope Le Bar Roberts talks at AAUW meeting April 14 • Airplane spotter to speak • Robert Tredinnick becomes new president of IRC • Joyce Behler leads dancing at French Club meeting
The Ursinus Weekly, April 12, 1943

Marion Bright

Marshall stresses service to others to set up kingdom • Ursinus to be host to debating teams • Betty Kirlin and Julia Ludwick elected to head girls' campus organization • Levitsky leads band for Mardi Gras fete at sophomore dance • Help purchase Ursinus jeep through war stamps • Women lay plans for May production • Debaters to meet Moravian Thursday • Talk on north Africa to highlight program of 'France forever' • Six from Ursinus elected to TKA • Casts chosen for 2 plays to be given on May Day • Native Oslo girl to talk on Norway • Dr. Herman speaks at dinner • Musical by college choir to portray Easter story • Red Cross seeks volunteers to give pint of blood for wounded soldiers • Activities council to meet May 3 for reorganization • Beardwood to reorganize • IRC to show movie Friday • Hainley stationed in Ohio • Minister encourages general fellowship • Dorm bull sessions accept American-Jap classmates • From Weekly files of 1918 • English Club hears two book reviews • April 26 set for drawing of rooms for non-Navy men • Pre-med movie illustrates peptic ulcer complications • Racquet wielders plan another good season in spite of vacancies • Girls anticipate good softball season to keep up 1942's undefeated record • Undefeated Highland six grabs inter-dorm basketball trophy • Ursinus men play for local champs • Girls' softball starts with 2 dorms to a team • Men begin season with games in gym • Dr. George Finnie to speak • Register now for May Day • Grad substitutes for M.D. • Seven local boys take Army-Navy tests Friday • Mrs. Sheeder speaks to guild
The Ursinus Weekly, April 5, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr. and Dean Steward

Sophs will feature Mardi Gras gaiety and new collegians • Forum speaker urges need for world union to bring sure peace • Weekly control board names Marion Bright as new editor • Lincoln prof tells rights of individual • Women will select officers Thursday • Ursinus to begin Navy training July 1 as inspectors approve college's facilities • Med school begins for 22 this month • Navy lowers vision barrier to aid drive for more V-7's • Women told of synthetics • Mary Alice Weaver wins coronation script contest • Pre-meds elect Beadling • IRC hears Italian problems • Avella made music prexy • Newly formed Spanish Club hears talk by Betty Knauer • Coeds plan five-sport spring program of tournaments and instruction clinics • Soph-seniors win ten bouts to walk away with tourney • Clamer faces Maples in semi-finals today • Boxing, wrestling champs in intramural tourney • Baseball, softball series to replace intra league • Highland sextet tops Maples 7-6 to enter finals • Wentzel describes need of good will • Two book reviews listed for English Club tonight • Schonfeld speaks on paint
The Ursinus Weekly, March 29, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr., Marion Bright, Jack L. Thomas, and Garfield Sieber Pancoast

Naval forces call for senior women to join reserves • College band to play for Mardi Gras fete, planned as soph hop • Sheeder and Pancoast will supervise Army, Navy qualifying examinations • Rader scores hit at spring formal • Cub and Key picks 5 men in annual prom tapping • Lobbyist to speak for federal union • New war bond drive initiated to buy jeep • Freshman starlets gain plaudits with dramatic mystery • Y to sponsor fools' frolic • Negro men to lead vespers • Pre-med group to see movie • Nancy Landis elected May queen • IRC discusses Pacific war at meeting Tuesday evening • Wentzel will speak • Chemists to hear Schonfeld • Once-beaten coeds close 1943 season with easy 28-19 victory at Rosemont • Thirty-two will fight it out in boxing and wrestling bill • Harrington ends year with 17-point average • Sinclair leads Highland to 20-0 shutout Tuesday • Thumbnail sketches of the girls' varsity squad • Jayvees subdue Rosemont with lop-sided triumph • Minister stresses sympathetic lives
The Ursinus Weekly, March 22, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr. and Joy Harter

Juniors to stress music, patriotism at annual formal • Curtain Club puts finishing touches on Cat and Canary • Last minute spurt names Nancy Landis bond queen • Penn prof believes in France's future • Weekly to publish directory of Ursinus grads in service • Federation plan for post-war world approved by Pennsylvania debaters • WSGA sets date for filling petitions for 1944 officers • Susan finishes painting • Faith needed in crises Daniels tells vespers • Grad's chem paper printed • Little-known professor surveys fraternity field in recent study • Irish jig at shamrock shag • Women to vote tomorrow • Ruby heads sign contract with Clark Publishing Co. • Council canvasses dorms for money to aid Red Cross • College to give April 2 qualifying tests for Army A-12 and Navy V-12 programs • Churchman compares Christians to soldiers • Community club to hear talk on Dupont plastics • English Club schedules two reviews for tonight • Library's latest books added to rental shelf • Massey signs collegians • Coeds to close season at Rosemont in search of 7th victory in 8 starts • Soph-seniors take 10-5 lead in six-sport interclass race • Worthing, Parks will pick teams for class bouts • Girls triumph 27-16 over Chestnut Hill • Maples noses out Day to enter dorm finals • Jayvees seek 5th straight at Rosemont Wednesday • Kellett to try for Phils • Harrington, Landis, Bright on All-Philadelphia team • Navy silent on college
The Ursinus Weekly, March 15, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr., Frank J. Curtis, and Teddy Knopf

Officers will begin Navy's inspection of college Tuesday • Curtain Club's opus grows in rehearsal • Bond queen race enters final week as Jean Haight leads Nancy Landis • Red Cross to sponsor campaign on campus • Treasury to back playwright contest for college bards • Three "I's" of religion explained to vespers • Dr. Fulton encourages collegians to promote interdependent world • May queen's election postponed until Tuesday of next week • College to claim students' rations • Alumni receive bulletin on annual Founders' Day • Pre-meds hear botanist • Brotherhood, Y's to lead Lenten service each week • World federation speaker will address next forum • Y will hold shamrock shag • Jr. prom will not be offensive, despite its theme of offense • French Club hears resume of former premier's talk • Classes to battle for campus crown • Coeds seek 6th win in clash Thursday with Chestnut Hill • All-stars trounce pre-flight school after losing to coast guards 54-31 • Lassies top Drexel 22-18 for fifth straight victory • Girls lose lead and bow 35-25 to unbeaten Temple • JV team tramples Drexel and Temple • 612 trips Sprankle 21-8 as Secor and Waltz star • Government offers technical positions in research work to science majors • Free French to show movies
The Ursinus Weekly, March 8, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr. and Robert Ihrie

Ursinus to be inspected as possible site for second Navy unit; Pre-med students to train here according to present plans • Jean Haight leads with small margin in Bond Queen vote • Krusen will decorate gym patriotically for junior spring formal • Men will consider altered constitution • Government plans to ask co-eds to become summer farmerettes • College's chief cook married in Philadelphia ceremony • Freeman stresses faith and prayer • Service committee visits state hospital • Former Chinese professor to speak Wednesday • IRC elects Daniels to office • Debaters defeat Villanova • Amateur meteorologist predicts rain or snow for junior prom • Call made for coronations • Horticulturist to speak to pre-medders Thursday • Curtain Club announces junior play committees • African battle • Get into the war • God bless America • Among our alumni • Society notes • Off the campus • In the service • History shows Reformed Church split responsible for founding of Ursinus • Temple dean warns only 22 percent get enough tooth care • Seven from Ursinus attend annual Pocono Y conclave • English Club adds four • Library notes • Army agrees with Ursinus men; Even "KP" team has attractions • All-stars to wind up season against two service teams • Girls play Drexel, unbeaten Temple away this week • Schellhase wins 136-lb. championship and trophy for outstanding wrestler as Ursinus places 4th at Middle Atlantics • Jayvees seek 4th, 5th wins against Drexel and Temple • Highland beats Clamer 20-5 • Bears lose to Swarthmore and Temple then top Haverford in debut at home • Small colleges may be used for wounded service men • Duck sunk at chem meeting: Ultra violet rays demonstrated by visiting chemist
The Ursinus Weekly, March 1, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr. and Richard Wentzel

Nancy Landis tops Jean Haight's lead in bond queen vote • Two freshmen play leading characters in "Cat and Canary" • Ursinus to be site for V-12 training unit according to Navy announcement today • Collegeville women explain war work at girls' assembly • President spikes rumors of CAA move to Ursinus • War nurse describes Poland's valiant fight • Dental dean at temple to speak to pre-meds • Dr. Lentz defines true gentleman • Lantern names Cooke head • Juniors will limit frills for wartime spring prom • Truth contest highlights YM-YW hatchet hop Friday • Men's and women's debating clubs to clash on world federation topic • New science applications to be shown to chemists • English Club to add four • Music Club hears students • Eight wrestlers will compete in Middle Atlantics • Coeds top Bryn Mawr for 4th straight win • Bears play Swarthmore tonite then face Temple, Haverford • Three opponents fare poorly in contests last week • Four records fall as Ursinus loses to St. Joe's 77-35 • Matmen drop 21-11 decision at Haverford Wednesday • Maples and Lynnewood win • Ursinus batallion tastes Army life with marching, exams on first day
The Ursinus Weekly, February 22, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr.

Jean Haight leads bond queen race during first week • Ruby staff proceeds with curtailed plans for wartime annual • Haverford bows to grizzlies in first court tilt of season • Curtis men will vacate hall in interest of economy • Ursinus wins place in debate tourney • Miller tells vespers of today's happiness • Y's will sponsor polish war films • Juniors sign Rader's band to play at spring formal • Two hundred students say dawn adieus as thirty-one reservists leave college • Juniors hold class party • Air Corps cuts college list by seven this week • Play tryouts postponed • German Club learns songs • Weekly adds four to staff • Services will get books from drive • Government seeks college graduates for wartime jobs • War offense theme planned for prom • Temple dentistry dean to address pre-meds • Fireside chatters discuss Y's place • Soc prof continues discussions with famed Freeland folkways • Staiger speaks to chemists • Girls' court team seeks fourth win in Bryn Mawr tilt • Rangers win twice on Tuesday to cop intramural diadem • The best teams of all move to Convention Hall • Ursinus Matmen drop 28-8 debut to Swarthmore • J.V. Cagers out for revenge at expense of Bryn Mawr • Varsity sextet tops Swarthmore 27-18 • Haverford to play here • Jayvees suffer first loss • Shreiner and Lynnewood take intramural openers • Librarian lists books in new rental collection
The Ursinus Weekly, February 15, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr.

Lehigh prof blames Japanese ambition for Far-East war • Haight takes lead in bond queen vote • Thirty-four army enlisted reservists to report for active duty next week • Hudson speaks at vespers program on lasting gifts • Wilson yields his swing and sweet at annual Lorelei • One dance, coronation replace May pageant • Curtain Club picks play for weekend • Nurse's course to be given • Pre-meds hear Dr. Perkins • Library will assist victory book drive • Second registration due for war ration booklet • Juniors plan party Friday • WSGA welcomes freshman girls at traditional Color Day • Y plans hop next week • Bus-movie tickets stopped • Frosh women make sorority choices in midst of tears, squeals, and hugs • Report by med school association gives Ursinus grads high rating • Lantern completes staff • Girls will travel to Swarthmore for third game • Wrestling squad opens intercollegiate schedule at Swarthmore Saturday • Ursinus to meet Haverford in initial court tilt Friday • Gunners meet pilots for fourth position; Playoffs start today • Coeds beat Beaver to end 2-year jinx • Jayvee team looks ahead to first trip Wednesday • Jayvees outscore Beaver for second victory 26-14 • Four scoring records smashed in intramural climax; Snipers forge into tie with rangers for league lead • Parents by proxy aid Spanish child
The Ursinus Weekly, February 8, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr., Jim Zeigler, Bob Wilson, and Richard Wentzel

Altered constitution awaits ratification of men's assembly • Date rationed gals display patriotism in Lorelei struggle • Jacobs workers vote today on union representation • Lehigh professor will address forum on oriental post-war reconstruction • Sale of war stamps will nominate coed as queen of bonds • Curtis succeeds Cooke as '43 yearbook editor; plans curtailed Ruby • Training program lists 281 colleges • Impressive new electric orgatron replaces Clarke organ in chapel • Ideals of YM-YWCA explained to frosh • Pre-med society will hear talk by med school dean • Dramatic fraternity meets • Music Club holds meeting • Curtain Club admits seven after tryouts on Tuesday • Movie depicts prison camp • English Club to accept four • Women debaters show film • Frenchman leaves job as instructor for armed forces • Krusen heads junior party • Army and report cards decrease total from 535 to 480 students • Sorority skirmishes start tonight; Rushees to cast the die Saturday • Movie-bus tickets ruled out by ODT • Junior class will feature prom and play on weekend • Ditter heads Cub and Key • Church group plans party • Top-flight squads have easy sailing in tilts this week • Coeds top Penn 35-18 for initial triumph • Girls out to upset 2-year jinx in Beaver clash Wednesday • Pete plans games with other schools • Junior varsity comes thru with 29-15 opening victory • Wrestlers to begin intensive training • Jayvees face second test • Commandos move into second place tie as rangers keep lead despite loss • Sociologist discusses folkways in special series of articles • Summer school for V1, V7's • Chem society elects Grubb • Army lists Weil as missing • College and Superior Tube Co. arrange women's work plan • Army calls Cooke, Heckman
The Ursinus Weekly, February 1, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr., Richard Wentzel, and Clark Moore

Dr. Wilson Godshall will tell forum of post-war Far East • Commission named to block hoarding of Lorelei material • Diplomas presented to thirty-nine at first mid-term commencement • Enlisted reserves soon to be called under army plans • Economists needed for vital war jobs • Merchant Marine Corps will accept enlistments • Five mid-year graduates to report for active duty • Navy list names grad as missing • Kitchen head faintly optimistic despite rigors of food shortage • Garner addresses pre-meds • Much, Tomafsky dismissed • Additional history courses to be required of teachers • Ghost to get gals money • Coeds face Penn in season opener at home Thursday • Rangers tighten grasp on intra league lead • Jayvee girls to make debut under coach Hogeland in clash with Penn • Unbeaten rangers to play three games while snipers meet sailors this week • Wrestling squad vacancies offer chance for new men • Dean bags large quota in elimination tourney • President attends meeting at Capitol • Weil downs two more Nazis • Phys-edders go swimming • French Club will present Gabin in "Grand illusion" • Hainley sets weekend date
The Ursinus Weekly, January 11, 1943

J. William Ditter Jr., Henry Turner, Leon North, and William H. Sutcliffe

How to find God is Koch's subject at Y's installation • College Who's Who lists ten seniors in current edition • Forty will graduate on January 25 in first mid-year commencement • Weekly board fills editorial positions as nine graduate • Anders pre-med society to hear illustrated talk by noted dermatologist • Band pleases some in inter-frat ball • Biology Department receives microscope from Dr. Price • Men debaters open season • Ursinus queen's coronation will replace May pageant • Clamer girls campused • First Ursinus casualty revealed by the Navy • English Club hears Dunant tell of Franco-Nazi hate • High schools to graduate pre-collegians in 3 1/2 years • Much feted freshman pledges flip the coin and cast the die • Coed wanted to fill post as Lantern manager • Curtain Club tryouts set for Wednesday • "Blues in the night" altered for duration • Wagner explains photos in color at chem meeting • Government seeks woman engineers • Lloyd M. Lebegern dies • Girls open season with Albright sextet at home this week • Jayvees begin practice under coach Hogeland • Rangers and snipers each win twice to take intramural basketball lead • Dribblers get new schedule • Former student gets a 109 • Heiges attends convention
The Ursinus Weekly, December 14, 1942

J. William Ditter Jr., Richard Wentzel, and Donald Melson

Academic council announces future examination dates • Banquet and party will highlight gala Christmas season • Frosh elect Bain to council • Adamic explains "Two-Way passage" and reconstruction plans to forum • Annual senior ball trip to tropic isle attracts 120 couples • Oldest grad dies in Philly hospital • Four soloists and supporting chorus score in "Messiah" • Pre-Meds hear Dressler talk on tropic diseases • Ex-college nurse moves • Thirteen added as Weekly reporters • Rev. Schlingman to speak at brotherhood meeting • Inter frat-sorority ball will climax rushing week • Year's first Lantern issue to be published this week • "Ring around Elizabeth" pleases large crowd as weekend climax • Ursinus grad of '38 receives commission by "air mail" • Jayvee hockey team had good year with five wins, two losses • Giants dominate intramural all-stars named by coaches • Muhlenberg captures league football title • Intramural teams ready to begin after holidays • Ping pong tourney begins • Take a look before you leap • Bowen receives commission • Fraternity rushing rules • Registrar's office issues reserve list • 1914 grad made lieutenant colonel
The Ursinus Weekly, December 7, 1942

J. William Ditter Jr.

Vespers speaker pleads cause for charter freedoms • Lecture by Louis Adamic, "The Messiah" presentation, tropical, moonlit senior ball, and Curtain Club comedy to be featured in eventful week on Ursinus campus • Five Ursinus students attend IRC conference • 4 veteran soloists to sing oratorio • Gordon to return for senior formal • Cast rushes week of final practice • Friday named by president as 18-19 registration day • Christmas party to follow annual banquet next week • Ex-Weekly editor engaged • Snell's belles tie Baker's boys • Five Bullets make Ursinus' all-opponent first team • Basketball coeds begin practice • Stevens plans to begin winter intramurals • Juniors win over freshmen but lose game by forfeit • Women's Club gifts exceed $19,000 level • Professor Pettit lectures to society on war gases • Y's international party raises money for WSSF • English Club will hear Betty Reese review book • Two women will journey to Allentown for debate
The Ursinus Weekly, November 30, 1942

J. William Ditter Jr., Donald Melson, and William H. Sutcliffe

Y launches drive at Ursinus today in behalf of WSSF • Louis Adamic, "Messiah," and senior ball to make the week of December seventh one of the biggest of the college year • Community club's program questions way toward peace • Grad's sister dies in Boston tragedy • Faculty sends four to profs' conclave • Y heads to address frosh • Analysis of women re-written to include artistic viewpoint • Personality and broad musical experience distinguish Dr. Philip • Debaters to meet tonight • Snell's belles give bear sports first unblemished season in five years • Giants finish perfect season with 6-0 win over Packers • English Club to meet at McClure's home tonight • Beautiful and historical trees cover campus; Dean Kline is nature expert of the college
The Ursinus Weekly, November 23, 1942

J. William Ditter Jr. and Joe Much

Vespers audience hears Koch speak on life of Christ • Dr. Carter instructs men's debate club in argumentation • Louis Adamic, noted author and lecturer, will address the December ninth forum; fifth "Messiah" to return following night • Styres, de Nault, Jamison, and Vickland will be featured as vocal soloists • Negro youth tells of race prejudice • Seniors rushing plans for December weekend • Williams tells chemists about science of tanning • English Club hears Hopkins review "Unforgotten Years" • Forum's town meeting scheduled tomorrow • Pre-meds will see movies • War bonds and stamps sale begun by women's council • Hundred attend Y party • Intra Giants shellac Redskins 32-0 while Packers trample bears 20-7 • Snell's belles undefeated; polish off Drexel and Penn • Johnson views football future with optimism • Bakermen cocked to beat Penn JV • Bear co-captains end grid careers • Intramural registration will end Wednesday • The tumult and shouting dies: Ursinus held her own this year • Stevens reveals plans for winter intramurals • Forum hears Frenchman