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The caption at the top gives a brief description of Prospect Terrace and early hosing for women. The photograph is of Prospect Terrace.

Picture of a panel from the memorial relief "Promise/Anthem".

A cartoon in the 1927 yearbook referring to the 18th Amendment, which led to prohibition in the United States.

Professor Boswell discusses the policies and plans of socialism and anarchism, and then compares those to that of capitalism. In the end, Boswell used the example of capitalism to criticize the extreme stances taken by both socialism and anarchism,…

Presidents look to pledging and alludes to Rutgers incident

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.

The majority of Ursinus students, 268, voted for the Republican ticket (Hoover), while a strong minority, 154 in all, voted for the Socialist and Democratic tickets. This election marked a major shift in the political identity of the student body of…

Portrait of Richard P. Richter in the Presidents Office

This account of President Omwake's later years at Ursinus provides insight into the financial troubles the school had fallen into towards the end of the 1920s. The 1930s brought on many financial hardships for the school, which had just committed to…