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1885 - History Of California, Volume 2, Theodore Henry Hittell

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

Hittell devotes the first portion of Volume 2 to the Mexican Governors of California including Pablo Vicente de Sola, Luis Antonio Arguello, Jose Maria de Echeandia, Manuel Victoria, Pio Pico, Jose Figueroa, Mariano Chico, Nicolas Gutierrez. Juan Bautista Alvarado, Jose Manuel Micheltorena, Hittell also describes the people and circumstances leading up to the war between the United States and Mexico: John C. Fremont, Bear Flag Revolution, Texas Revolution, and Florida Treaty. The final portion of Hittell's book addressed the social and cultural aspects of life in Alta California, missionaries, physical geography, geology, botany and zoology of Alta California, Americans in …

The Lived Experiences Of Christian Missionaries Who Need To Learn A Foreign Language To Fulfill A Call To Serve In Immersed Settings: A Phenomenological Study, Stephanie Blankenship

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

he purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to describe the experiences of Christian missionaries living immersed cross-culturally who need to learn a foreign language in order to fulfill a Christian vocational calling. The theories guiding this study were Vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural theory and Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory as pertains to the social aspects and interactions of immersion in second language acquisition. This study was important in offering support and guidance in the ongoing understanding of second language acquisition, in particular to individuals who have answered the Christian call to missions (Dixon et al., 2012; Price, 2013). This study …

Richmond, Emeline Holden, 1807-1893 (Sc 1298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1298. Typescripted diary of Emeline Holden Richmond, Newark, New Jersey, kept from 14 August through 10 October 1826 during her journey to Mississippi, where she planned to serve as a teacher of Indian children and Presbyterian missionary. Includes family and biographical data and information about the mission.

Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.

Footprints Of A Pilgrim

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2009 performance of Footsteps of a Pilgrim based on the book by Ruth Bell Graham and adapted by Kerry Meads and Robert Smyth.

Footprints of a Pilgrim is the story of Ruth Bell Graham recounting the story of her childhood as the daughter of missionaries in China, her marriage to Reverend Billy Graham, and beyond.

Laubach In India: 1935 To 1970, S. Y. Shah

The Courier

Dr. Frank C. Laubach, missionary and adult educator, dedicated his life to the cause of literacy for development and world peace. During his travels to 103 countries, he worked toward helping some 60 to 100 million people become literate. In addition, he founded or helped found four literacy organizations, including Laubach Literacy International; wrote forty books on adult education, Christian religion, world politics, and culture; and co-authored literacy primers in more than 300 languages. He was awarded four honorary doctorates—one of them from Syracuse University.

Although Laubach worked in many other countries, it is said that his heart was always …

Samoan For Missionaries, Scott C. Dunn

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a textbook designed to assist LDS missionaries studying the Samoan language both in a two-month intensive language-learning school (the Missionary Training Center) and in individual study in the Samoan Islands. The thesis is prefaced with a rationale for and explanation of the Missionary Training Center language program and the design and purposes of the text itself.

The textbook contains fifty Samoan language lessons, divided into ten units of five lessons each. At the end of each unit is a review module, or test. Except for two overview lessons (designed to introduce grammatical terms and pronunciation), each of …

A Descriptive Study Of The Personality, Attitudes, And Overseas Experience Of Seventh-Day Adventist College Students Who Served As Short-Term Volunteer Missionaries, Donna Habenicht

Dissertations

Problem. During the last ten years there has been a surge of Interest among college students in short-term volunteer missionary service. It was the purpose of the present study to describe the personality, attitudes, and overseas experience of a group of 150 Seventh-day Adventist college students who served as short-term volunteer missionaries (student missionaries) during the 1975-76 school year. Method The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (Form A), a series of semantic differential rating scales for selected religious, mission, cultural, and personal concepts, and a two-part questlonnaire were used to describe the personality, attitudes, and overseas experience of the student missionaries. …

The Ursinus Weekly, April 27, 1964, Craig S. Hill, Frank Caiola, Francis Miller, Lynn Martin, John Bradley, George Davis, Constance Laughlin

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Waiters guests at annual banquet • Bohl receives Fullbright to study abroad • Campus organizations conduct Spring elections: MSGA chooses officers; WSGA names class reps • Yocum selected to visit Russia • Mensch Mill site of annual Spring retreat • African trip, PAC forum event • Unadvertised Greek week promised to be one of the best • Cheerleaders • Spirit Committee • Women's dorm officers • Meistersingers • Editorial: Supply and demand? • Next President: Henry Cabot Lodge • Slaves work for freedom with sweat, toil and bridge • Letters to the editor • Lacrosse loses 1st ever; Tennis blanked …

The Ursinus Weekly, March 23, 1959, Frederick L. Glauser, Mai Vilms

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Student-faculty show was well received by Ursinus • Students urged to take SS test, April 30 • U.C. students can enter public speaking contest • Ursinus to host annual county science fair • MSGA discusses new projects March 16 • Dr. Schmoyer to discuss growth of liturgy • Mrs. P. Streich to talk this Wednesday • May Day boasts long history; featured at Ursinus since 1905 • Campus Chest ends; Campaign is successful • Art seminars to begin on April 8 • S-P Jaycees to sponsor Easter sunrise service • Editorial: "That's it" • Our escape from the communists • …

Language Training For Missionaries, Laurence Mcpherson Farr

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Every foreign missionary is confronted with one basic task. Without its successful accomplishment his work as a missionary will fail. It is the task of learning the language of the people among whom he is working. However laudable his motives may be, however great his consecration, and however capable he may be in many tasks, if he fails to gain the ability to understand readily speech addressed to him or to communicate his own thoughts intelligibly and accurately to them, he is working behind a closed door — a door which he failed to unlock,

It is the purpose of …

The Ursinus Weekly, March 5, 1923, F. Nelsen Schlegel

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Girls have another string of victories • Women's student council entertains with dinner • Women's student council nominates new officers • Phidelah Rice entertains with readings • Sophomore quintet heads interclass cage league • Basketball team closes season with two reverses • Intercollegiate debate to be held Friday evening • Y.W.C.A. to hold 15th anniversary celebration • Dr. Meeker state Commissioner of Labor and Industry • Zwing preparing operetta • Soph-senior shine • YW nominations • Lutherans are entertained • Frosh-junior shine • Gym classes give second exhibition Saturday

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 4, No. 10, Augustus W. Bomberger, Jonathan L. Fluck

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the July 1888 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 4, No. 8, Augustus W. Bomberger, Jonathan L. Fluck

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the May 1888 Ursinus College Bulletin.

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 4, No. 6, Augustus W. Bomberger, Jonathan L. Fluck

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the March 1888 Ursinus College Bulletin.