Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Grenfell first became interested in medical missions among the fishermen of Labrador in 1892. The suffering of the natives and the intense poverty throughout the fishing settlements led to the gradual establishment of a chain of hospitals, nursing stations, orphanages and co-operative stores along the coast. Communication between the scattered settlements was established by the visits of the mail boat, which now acts also as a hospital ship, collecting patients along the coast and bringing them to the various hospitals where proper care can be taken of them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice...
Efforts are being made to teach the people to live with more comfort. Along the coast, for example, woolen weaving has been established so that during the winter the women can make clothes, and agricultural stations have been located in the less barren parts of the country where experiments are made. Lumber mills have been established, and several peat bogs have been opened. In a word, the most is being made out of the limited resources of the country...
...Grenfell spoke of the large opportunities for service in Labrador, and mentioned the fact that at the present time eight Harvard graduates are actively engaged in mission work along the coast. In closing he referred briefly to various other occupations common to the natives and spoke especially of the existence of the whale industry and the methods employed by those engaged...
Most Harvard men know of Dr. Grenfell's remarkably patient and successful work on the Labrador coast and some have worked with him. His work is one which appeals especially to college men on account of its intensity and athletic character. We cannot say that Dr. Grenfell himself appeals to college men more than to other people; but we feel no hesitation for that reason in urging Harvard men to hear the modest missionary of Labrador who is achieving with his own hands the regeneration of inhabitants of our own continent...
Score--Second Team. 10: Coast Artilery, 0. Touchdowns--Willetts, Hardwick, Referee--A. F. Noble. Amherst Umpire--G. N. Bankhart, Dartmouth Field judge Lieutenant G. B. Lawrason...