Omeka - Digital History at Ursinus

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The Ruby of 1927 talks about the history of Ursinus and how the college was in 1827 and 1927, and what is predicted of the college by 2027.

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A message in the 1926 Ruby that talks about the Financial Campaign and where the funding will go around campus.

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President Omwake talks about the excellence of Ursinus College in the 1926 Ruby Yearbook

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An article focusing on a program to give students who cannot pay their tuition money in exchange for work

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FDR and the Democratic Party were assailed by Republican speakers at a political rally in the gymnasium at the height of the presidential election of 1932.

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Representatives of the Socialist, Republican, and Democratic parties visit Ursinus students during a regular meeting of the Y.W.C. The program was largely held on account of the ongoing presidential election that year.

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The Weekly provided a presidential straw ballot for the students to mark and sign and then submit for counting. The results of this ballot were later revealed.

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This article talks about the opinions of Ursinus students on problems that were relevant in 1932, foreign and domestic. These problems included: the progress of communism in Russia, Japan's unprovoked conquest of Manchuria, the execution of the…

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An annual meeting of the Debating Association of Pennsylvania, which students from Ursinus College participated in, debated the issues of: war debt cancellation, the nationalizing of electric power and heat companies, Japan's conquest of Manchuria,…

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This article describes the school's effort to create the science building
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