Records, 1863-1971, 1941-1963.

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Records, 1863-1971, 1941-1963.

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Annual reports, minutes, correspondence, cloth maps, and printed materials document the governance and programs of the YMCA and YWCA at Oberlin College from 1902 until 1971. The earliest items are cloth maps (1863-96) showing YMCA missionary activity worldwide.

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Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

World Young Women's Christian Association

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World Alliance of YMCAs

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The YMCA, established at Oberlin College in 1881, and the YWCA, established in 1894, were voluntary associations of students dedicated to social and religious work for the purpose of building Christian character in their members. Oberlin College provided on-campus quarters for both organizations, whose staffs were paid out of an annual grant from the College. Under the presidency of William E. Stevenson (1946-59), the relationship of the YMCA and YWCAs to the larger religious life of the College...

Blakesley, Elizabeth.

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Cox, Harvey Gallagher

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Fitch, Florence Mary, 1875-1959

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Florence Mary Fitch was born in Stratford, Connecticut in 1875. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1897 and taught high-school for three years in her home town of Buffalo, New York. In 1900, she went to the University of Berlin to undertake advanced study in philosophy, psychology, and biblical theology, attending the lectures of Adolf von Harnack and other eminent scholars then transforming the field of biblical criticism. She received the M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in 1903 from Berlin. Returni...