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The Ursinusiana Project: How The Religious History Of Ursinus College Yielded Today's Liberal Arts Curriculum, Karen Boedecker

Religious Studies Honors Papers

My project is divided into two parts. The first part is a heavily annotated timeline. I have organized all of the bits and pieces I encountered during my time in the Ursinusiana archives in a clear and concise manner that addresses each historical occurrence that led to the abolition of chapel attendance at Ursinus College. I hope that this timeline can serve not only as a reference for the casual reader who is interested in the religious history of the College but also as a guide to my analysis in the second part of the project.

Although constructing the timeline …

Examining Our Roots: How Over 100 Years Of Religion Yielded A Secular Liberal Arts Program At Ursinus College, Karen Boedecker

Religious Studies Summer Fellows

Although Ursinus College is a fairly young institution, there have been many modifications that have occurred throughout its history. While we as students might be tempted to fixate on the changes that we find most relatable such as the price of an Ursinus education (it was $188 a year in 1885) or the clubs and organizations in which one could choose to be involved (in the 1880s the only options were the Zwinglian, Schaff, Ebrard, and Olevian literary societies which flourished here), the overall character of the College was most heavily influenced by the presence and eventual absence of religion. …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 3, Don Yoder, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Paul R. Wieand, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Herbert H. Beck, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Frances Lichten

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Two Worlds in the Dutch Country
• Belsnickel Lore
• Carpet-Rag Parties
• Quilting Traditions in the Dutch Country
• Lititz
• Lititz Specialties
• Amish Funerals
• Pennsylvania Redware
• Scratch-Carved Easter Eggs
• Fractur From the Hostetter Collection

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 3, Diane Sidener Young, Anne W. Goda, Susan Kalcik, Woodward S. Bousquet, Monica Mutzbauer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Conservation and Mediation in the Folk and Traditional Arts of Pennsylvania
• Isaac and Thomas Stahl, the Revival Potters of Powder Valley
• The Folk Art of Decorated Eggs
• Jim Popso and His Coal Country Folk Art
• Leaving the Old World for the New: Rules Governing Emigration from Landau in the Palatinate

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 1, Charles L. Blockson, Roland C. Barksdale-Hall, Jerrilyn Mcgregory, Terry G. Jordan

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• "A Missing Link": The History of African Americans in Pennsylvania
• The Twin City Elks Lodge: A Unifying Force in Farrell's African American Community
• The Greening of Philadelphia
• The "Saddlebag" House Type and Pennsylvania Extended

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 4, Mark R. Eaby Jr., Barbara Strawser, Eleanor Dudrear, Albert Dudrear Jr., Edward Eirikis, Gerri Sproesser, Carol Nagel, Vivian Aron, Marie George, Ann S. Burrows, Richard F. Kurr, James K. Beard, Jeanne Reifel, Tom Kloss, Jeffrey M. Fiant, Ivan E. Hoyt

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• I Remember Well: Thirty-Five Years of the Kutztown Folk Festival
• Furniture Graining
• Old Fashioned Clear Toy Candy
• Metal Etching
• Stenciling
• Baskets and Basket Weavers
• Apple Butter: Then and Now
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• 20th Annual Quilting Contest
• Quilts and Quilt Marking
• The Art of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• Music on the Main Stage
• Scratchboard
• Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art in Wood
• The Windsor Chair
• Hex Signs

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 2, Joseph S. Miller, Hilda Adam Kring, Susan P. Martin, Elizabeth M. Safanda, William T. Parsons, Harold C. Miller, Amos B. Hoover

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Children of the Spirit, Not of the Law: Themes in Anabaptist Theology
• Religious Symbols in a Symbol-less Society
• Games and Activities of the New Wilmington Amish School Children
• The Amish Quilts of Lancaster County 1860 to 1930
• Francis Daniel Pastorius, Public Servant and Private Citizen
• Life with Grandfather: Growing Up in a Plain Pennsylvania German Community in the 1920s
• A Tear for Jonas Martin: Old Order Mennonite Origins in Lancaster County

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 1, Martha B. Kriebel, William T. Parsons, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Antje Sommer, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Women, Servants and Family Life in Early America
• "Be it Remembered that these Indentured Servants and Apprentices"
• Gute Socha fer Hame tzu Nemma
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters
• Aldes / Neies

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement, Richard Shaner, Tom Ahern, Theodore W. Jentsch, Mary E. Sise, Robert W. Murphy, John E. Stinsmen, Barry Mcfarland, Paul E. Forster, Anne E. Denney, Kristen R. Angstadt, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Hex Signs: A Living Tradition
• Decoys and How to Make Them
• Kutztown's Plain People
• The Old Country Kitchen: Where Food Preparation was an Art
• Wooden Toys, Games and Puzzles: The Delight of All Children
• A Sketch of the Seminar Stage Programs
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Furniture-Makers at the Kutztown Festival
• The Muzzle-Loading Gunsmith
• Those Rare Things Called "Antiques!"
• Mouth-Watering Baked Goods, Fresh From the Ovens!
• The Art of the Potter

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, Folk Festival Supplement, Gail Eaby Hartmann, Lester Breininger, Lauren B. Augstadt, Robert S. Blanchard, Kenneth P. Lambert, Barbara K. Foust, Richard Shaner, William T. Parsons, Richard C. Gougler, Lynn David Pleet, Ada Robacker, Earl F. Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Quilts, Quilts, Quilts
• America's Heritage is Endowed with Contributions of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• The Hospitality Tent: "H" is for Help - That's What it's all About
• Pottery: A Folk Art Expressing the Most in Simplest Terms
• "It Never Rains on our Parade" - On the Fourth of July
• Vegetable Dyeing at the Kutztown Folk Festival
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Foods: The Original Touch of the Dutch
• Ursinus College Studies at the Festival
• Behind the Scenes of "We Like Our Country, But We Love Our God"
• Reverse …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 3, Don Yoder, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Mac E. Barrick, A. Russell Slagle, Ronald L. Michael, Ronald Carlisle, William T. Parsons

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Germans and the American Revolution
• The Blooming Grove Colony
• The Salebill
• The Schlegel Family and the Rosicrucian Movement
• A Log Settler's Fort/Home
• Pennsylvania Dutch Studies at Ursinus College, 1976
• The Country Sale: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 43

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 3, Paul H. Douglas, Vernon H. Nelson, Carol Wojtowicz, Theodore W. Jentsch, William Woys Weaver, Louis Winkler

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Material Culture of the Harmony Society
• German Script Course, 1974
• Play in Philadelphia
• Education, Occupation, and Economics Among Old Order Mennonites of the East Penn Valley
• Pennsylvania German Architecture: Bibliography in European Backgrounds
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XI: Christoph Saur's Almanacs
• Reading Matter in the Pennsylvania Home: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 38

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, Folk Festival Supplement, Don Yoder, Martha S. Best, Barbara B. Bomberger, Lester Breininger, Ernest Angstadt, Richard C. Gougler, Marsha Delong, Dorothy L. Longstreet, Peg Zecher, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Twenty-Five Years of the Folk Festival
• Our Farmer's Market
• Simple Basics of Egg Decorating
• The Folk Festival's Bookstore
• Setting Up the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Behind the Scenes of "We Remain Unchanged"
• Granges at the Kutztown Folk Festival
• How to Design Pressed Flower Pictures
• There is This Place - And These People
• Metalcrafting at the Festival
• Hex Signs and Magical Protection of House and Barn: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 35

The Reverend John H. A. Bomberger, Doctor Of Divinity; Doctor Of Laws 1817-1890: Centenary Volume, John H. Bomberger, John Hunter Watts, James I. Good, Edgar Ritter Appenzeller, Henry Aymar Bomberger, Calvin D. Yost Sr., George Leslie Omwake

John H. A. Bomberger Centenary Volume

Prepared for the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Henry Augustus Bomberger, this biographical volume provides details of Dr. Bomberger's life from his early days as a student at Mercersburg through his final years as the first President of Ursinus College. The 273 page book contains photographs and portraits.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 9, June 15, 1902, Walter E. Hoffsommer

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the June 15, 1902 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 8, May 15, 1902, Walter E. Hoffsommer

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the May 15, 1902 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 7, April 15, 1902, Mary E. Markley

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the April 15, 1902 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 6, March 15, 1902, Mary E. Markley

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the March 15, 1902 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 5, February 15, 1902, Mary E. Markley

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the February 15, 1902 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 4, January 15, 1902, Mary E. Markley, Marion G. Spangler

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the January 15, 1902 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 3, December 15, 1901, Mary E. Markley

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the December 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 2, November 15, 1901, Mary E. Markley

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the November 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 1, October 15, 1901, Mary E. Markley

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the October 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 9, June 15, 1901, Mary E. Markley, John Alexander

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the June 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 8, May 15, 1901, Mary E. Markley

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the May 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 7, April 15, 1901, William Samuel Keiter

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the April 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 6, March 15, 1901, William Samuel Keiter

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the March 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 5, February 15, 1901, William Samuel Keiter

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the February 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 4, January 15, 1901, William Samuel Keiter

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the January 15, 1901 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 3, December 15, 1900, William Samuel Keiter

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the December 15, 1900 Ursinus College Bulletin.