Diary, 1899, 1918.

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Diary, 1899, 1918.

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The diary begins with Jules Frelin teaching in Arlington, Minnesota, continues as Frelin traveled by ship to the Philippines, and recounts Frelin's experiences as a teacher in the Philippines. The 1918 section covers Frelin's trip from Minnesota to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as an employee of the YMCA to teach French to U.S. Army personnel and YMCA employees. Also included are clippings, correspondence, tickets, copies of jokes, anecdotes, poems.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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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...

Frelin, Jules Theophile, 1870-1956.

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Jules I. Frelin was born in Alsace, but moved to Faribault MN with his family in 1885. He attended Mankato Normal School and taught in Arlington MN, also serving as school principal there. At the start of the Spanish-American war, Frelin enlisted in a Minnesota regiment, and served in the Philippines; after the war, he remained to teach French to the indigenous people there. He then returned to Minnesota to get a languages degree from the University of Minnesota, where he taught for 34 years. On...