Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...MacMillan has for over 10 years been taking Arctic travels. In 1908-09 he was Commander Peary's assistant on his successful trip to the North Pole. During the following three years he cruised along the Labrador coast especially for an ethnological study of the Eskimos and Indians living there. He was in command of the Crocker Land expedition to the Polar Regions which took place from 1913-17. In all his travels he has covered 10,000 miles with dog team in company with Polar Eskimos. Mr. MacMillan will also be in command of the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition...
...Grenfell has spent more than twenty-five years on the Labrador Coast in medical, religious and social work, on behalf mainly of the large number of Newfoundland fishermen who visit that coast every year during the fishing season. The permanent establishments of his work are, part of them, on the island of Newfoundland. He was knighted by King Edward VII in 1907. He spent some months last year at the front in France in medical and religious work...
...previous years Dr. A. P. Fitch '00, conducted these Freshmen meetings, but a change has been made this year by having a program of different speakers, among whom are Professor E. C. Moore and Dr. Grenfell, the Labrador missionary...
...Charles David Williams, D.D., Bishop of Micnigan. Oct. 7--13: Professor Edward Caldwell Moore, D.D., Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Oct. 14--20: The Rev. Elwood Worcester, D.D., rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston. Oct. 21--27: Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, A.M., M.D., Missionary in Labrador. Oct. 28--Nov. 5: The Rev. John A. W. Haas, D.D., president of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. Nov. 4--10: Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Nov. 11--17: The Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham, D.D., minister of Arlington Street Church, Boston. Nov. 18--24: The Rev. Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., dean of the Yale School...
...death bed, but the general atmosphere of gloom which dominated the second and third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour of Lost Ships," and is by Miss Louise Whitefield Bray, a Radcliffe graduate. The scene is laid in Labrador or Green Bay or some correspondingly Arctic atmosphere where the inhabitants, doubtless by reason of the frigidity of the environment, believe in hell with a peculiar ferocity. A boy is about to die in the company of his sister and a parson, who looks in at the last moment...