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College students in missionary work

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Berkeley Association, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 514
Abstract:

The records consist of minutes, general files, a constitution, and membership lists documenting the operations of the Yale Berkeley Association.

Dates: 1869-1910

Dwight Hall, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 47
Abstract:

The records consist of correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, membership lists, program records, committee records, scrapbooks, subject files, conference records, publications and printed material, and related materials concerning the activities of Dwight Hall at Yale.

Dates: 1881-2017

Foreign Missionary Band, Yale College, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 513
Abstract:

The records consist of a biographical sketchbook, a constitution, and by-laws documenting the operations of the Yale Foreign Missionary Band (also known as the United Band of Foreign Missionaries).

Dates: 1831-1838

Missionary Society, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 515
Abstract:

The records consist of a constitution, minutes, and membership lists documenting the operations of the Yale Missionary Society.

Dates: 1852-1865

Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions Records

 Collection
Call Number: RG 42
Abstract: The papers document the activities of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and provide valuable information on various aspects of American religious life during the period 1886-1964. Religious conditions on American college and university campuses are documented. Vast files of student volunteer application, information and health examination blanks provide personal data on thousands of prospective missionaries which is of potential interest to genealogists, biographers and...
Dates: 1886-1964

Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions Records - Addendum A

 Collection
Call Number: RG 42a
Abstract:

These records primarily document the last decade of the SVM's autonomous existence, 1949-1959, complementing the records found in Record Group No. 42. The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization that sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service. In 1959, the Student Volunteer Movement, the United Student Christian Council, and the Interseminary Committee merged to form the National Student Christian Federation.

Dates: 1886-1964

Robert Parmelee Wilder Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RG 38
Abstract: Material documents the development of the Christian missionary movement among students in the United States and Europe, 1886-1938. Family correspondence documents the missionary work of Wilder's parents in India, 1846-1875, as well as his work in India, 1893-1902. Robert Parmelee Wilder was born in India of missionary parents in 1863. He earned the A.B. and A.M. degrees from Princeton University (1886, 1888) and the B.D. degree from UnionTheological Seminary (1891). He was a founder of the...
Dates: 1840-1940