The Ursinus Weekly, January 16, 1939

Bears lose to Gettysburg five in overtime thriller 37-31 • Bowen picks Witman hop committee head • Valentines, sirens combination for decorations of Lorelei • State Supreme Court rule upholds Ursinus in Patterson proceedings • Pearlstine explains registration requirements to legal students • Demands of Italy from France discussed by IRC Tuesday • Sheeder, Poling represent college at Penn meeting • Miller dance conservatory gives program at women\u27s meeting • Former opera star thrills campus in recital; stays to conduct voice clinic for students • Speaker advocates proportional representation and city managership as part of new charter • Manuscript Club hears poetry • Alumni to hold get-together at University Club January 27 • Candidates for women\u27s debating should submit names • Ups and downs fell-t by skaters • Frosh basketeers lose to F. and M.; beat Hill School, Girard during three game week • Alumnus to be honoredhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1858/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, March 13, 1939

All-U conference to include party • Forum speaker lauds cooperatives as the truest form of democracy • Justice triumphs at booster show • New IRC Quarterly will appear tomorrow • Bonos, McLaughlin elected by juniors • Black and white soph hop features music by Wrigley • Women debaters complete two trips during busy week • Sheeder to represent Ursinus at pre-college conference • Meistersingers perform at Anselma and Hurffville, NJ • Alumnus to address pre-meds on subject of tuberculosis • Men forencists meet Bard; Dubuque debates over radio • AAUW holds thrift exhibit at Wednesday afternoon forum • Gurzynski grunt and groan night scheduled in gym next Tuesday; moguls change rules • Seventeen batterymen out for Jing\u27s squad • Editorial: Wrestling deserves another chance • Drexel, Temple added to co-eds\u27 win column • Chern, Keehn place on A.P. conf. team • Glatfelter speaks at vespershttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1864/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 20, 1939

Y\u27s revive bowery for Friday party • Forum to present contrasting views • Language professors recovering from grippe • Hendricks and Baugh receive degrees at college 70th birthday celebration • Jitterbug pair to star in black and white hop • Fine arts-fine living is conference theme; delegates to attend March Pocono conclave • Sibbald announces schedule of plays and play tryouts • German professor to visit Ursinus this week • Scholars\u27 costumes bring pomp and color of medieval life to modern academic procession • Poling talks in vespers; Temple students coming • Phi Psi exhibits water-colors • Papal situation discussed • Tuberculosis films shown • Susceptible males safe; Lorelei dance a has been • Bears drop pair of two-point thrillers in league • Girls upset Bryn Mawr, Rosemont; Harshaw high • Large crowd sees A century in baseball on Tuesday • Hearey leads brain-busters as LaSalle wins on radio • Bear cubs lose weeks games to F. and M., Muhlenberg fives • Wrestlers lose to G-burg, 33-3 • Grippe puts Thompson in bed • Hopkins, college orchestra syncopate at Temple formal • Newman Club to elect • Women debate with Temple, Immaculata, Lebanon Valley • Men hold three home, three away debates during week • Insane Spain in terse versehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1861/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 15, 1939

Mothers feted with banquet and pageant on rainy May Day program • Class officers elected during the past week • YM-YW officers and cabinets installed at chapel service held on open house Sunday • All classes elect next year\u27s council members • Committees for WSGA announced by Lois Taylor • Special Mothers\u27 Day vespers features talk by Mrs. Rauch • Booster committee changes hands; Lyons new chairman • Current events quiz held at International Relations Club • Three one-act plays shown at open house • Six open scholarships awarded by committee • Awards given and officers installed at WAA banquet • Far off hills swan song for seven seniors • YM-YW organizations plan doggie roast for Wednesday • German Club reelects Steinmetz; plans joint doggie roast with French Club for meeting tonight • Four-point program planned by Snyder and Reifsnyder for 1939-40 Christian organizations • Ursinus alumni of New York area will meet on May 18 • Looking for a job? These men might help you • Ursinus baseball team smothers Muhlenberg, 17-7; Swift blanks Lebanon Valley batsmen with five hits • Trackmen bow to St. Joe\u27s; Eshbach wins at ECAC meet • Curtis led by Deardorff takes softball first half • Co-ed golfers drop first match to Penn lassies, 4-1 • Women\u27s tennis team beats Beaver, loses to Swarthmorehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1871/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 27, 1939

Gordon\u27s light fantastic balanced by drama\u27s depth on senior week-end • Jan Peerce, amazing young tenor, will sing here Feb. 22 • BPC created by organization heads • Bass soloist named for The Messiah • Dr. Nash well received in previous addresses • Luncheon planned for Women\u27s Club • Trip to Temple med. school planned for anatomy class • Charles Steinmetz to speak at vespers on December 3 • Snyder announces December 2 as deadline for Lantern • Oskar Stonorov will deliver lectures on renaissance art • Collegians against ban on thumbing • Rev. James Gilbert announces topics for mission Dec. 4-8 • Curtain Club presents play at University of Pennsylvania • Coaches join in tribute to Stagg • F. - M. downs bears in season\u27s finalehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1828/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 20, 1939

Gettysburg takes conference title by downing bears, 43-7 • Forum speaker is prominent writer • Dr. J. W. Meminger, director, dies at 80 • Winter scene will be setting for ball; critics praise Shadow and substance • Five from college on invalid list • Brotherhood of St. Paul hears talk on music by Roy Snyder • Rev. James C. Gilbert will conduct mission Dec. 4-8 • Y vespers conducted by West Chester college • Carter coaches coaches on oratorical objectives • Federation of women\u27s clubs will sponsor art exhibit here • Student opinion poll to be quarterly feature • Representatives of optical firm to give illustrated lecture • College students value wide cultural education • Audience of 350 hears musicians • IRC members hear talk on propaganda by Kramer • Fifty students attend \u27Y\u27 swim party at Norristown • Strange disappearance of Myrtle the turtle • Religion and its dogmas are discussed by Newman Club • French Club plans scavenger hunt for tonight\u27s meeting • Dawson receives R. W. Maxwell award for outstanding play in Drexel game • Perkiomen bows before unbeaten jayvees, 13-0 • Bakermen defeated by Gettysburg booters, 5-1https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1827/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 28, 1938

Marionette troupe will perform twice • Weekly gets third in editorial contest • Philip announces Messiah artists • F.B.I. assistant will speak this Wednesday • Ursinus and Lehigh to debate on Pi Kappa Delta topic Friday • Sheeders, Mrs. Shelley attend conferences during holidays • Dr. Lewis Scheffey to speak before Anders pre-med society • December 9 and 10 will bring Keating and comedy; Byron, Harbaugh in play • Celebrated harpist presents combined concert and discussion on instrument Tuesday night • Mr. Michael addresses Rotary Club Wednesday on education • Far East fund drive to start next week • Mrs. Tower to be patroness for Cornell musicale December 27 • Legal graduates form new alumni association • Women\u27s Club to dine Saturday in Philadelphia • Ursinus frosh show averages above norm of liberal arts colleges in cooperative tests • Pre-medical aptitude test to be given this Friday • Bears end victoryless campaign as Franklin and Marshall wins final 40-2 • Courtmen prepare for coming battles • First frosh drill next Mondayhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1854/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, December 4, 1939

Union is advocated by forum speaker • Steinmetz talks on college Christianity • Arrangements near completion for sr. week-end ball, drama • May Day pageant contest announced • D. W. Ebbert, former president, passes away • Giant expose planned for Christmas party • I.R.C. Quarterly will be published this week • Pre-med students visit Temple medical school • Blum and Showalter to debate on radio Dec. 9 • Miss Spangler directs first of concerts at Valley Forge • Choir to present Messiah Thursday • Hashagenmen prep for Rutgers game • Wrestling hopefuls report to Stevens • Coach Snell drills co-ed courtsters • Report shows placement of 1939 class members • Lecture on renaissance art presented by Oskar Stonorov • AAUW members will hear musical program on Wednesday • Mein Kampf is discussed at women\u27s Debate Club meetinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1829/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 13, 1939

Shadow and substance cast chosen; Gordon features popular arrangements • Representative of Lugier\u27s will be on campus this week • Dawson gallops 68 yards for touchdown as bears tie Drexel • World union topic of Nov. 28 forum • Weekly places in three INA contests • Students from West Chester will conduct vespers Nov. 19 • Dean of Temple law school will speak to pre-legal society • Research topics to be assigned at Debate Club • Handel\u27s Messiah embodies mastery in simplicity • Christmas Lantern to appear on December 11 • German Club members will discuss poetry, Handel\u27s works • Student opinion survey shows Dewey leading candidate among collegians • Soccer team loses to teachers by 3-1 score • Jayvees, Brown Prep play to scoreless tie • Basketball team to scrimmage tonight • Jayvee hockey team splits pair of games during weekhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1826/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 13, 1940

Walter D. Fuller to deliver commencement address at exercises to be held on June 3 • Tulip time is motif of hop decorations • Successful pageant marks May Day • Masculine May queen to rule over pageant • Mrs. Barnard talks at Mothers\u27 Day vespers • Council on student activities elects Louise Kern \u2741, sec. • Wood heads hist-soc. group • Registrar\u27s office announces open scholarship winners • Miss Spangler\u27s students present Gluck\u27s Orpheus • Curtain Club scores with Kaufman-Hart play • Women\u27s rules changed • Y doggie roast Friday! • YM-YW plan activities for next year as 75 attend Arcola retreat last Sunday • Annual banquet of New York grads held at Hotel Pierrepont • Pre-Legalites hold election; choose Showalter president • Language clubs picnic • Dr. Calvin D. Yost speaks at meeting of Philadelphia alumni • Beardwood Chemical Society to hear lecture on quartz • Spring operetta, \u27Firefly\u27, to present first guest artist, miss Louise Julia • Five juniors elected to write constitution for new society • May Clark to review book at final English Club meeting • Clawson at Episcopal meeting • Bears trip Muhlenberg to hold lead in league; beaten by Wildcats, Thurs. • William and Mary tip brings 5-0 U sweep • Track squad bows in St. Joe\u27s meet • Jayvees take Hill Schoolers by 6-5 score on Wednesday • Netmen win first match by 5-4 score over Main Liners • Cricketmen remain undefeated in easy win over Haverford • Johnson named head as Varsity Club dines • Seven-hole golf course built behind Curtis by N.Y.A. men • Mr. O Stonorov to lecture on 18th century art tonighthttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1844/thumbnail.jp