Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grenfell, famous Labrador mission-worker, will speak on "Labrador" at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. His talk will be illustrated by moving pictures taken on the coasts of Labrador and Northern Newfoundland. These pictures will show the different fields of activity of the Grenfell Mission, besides helping to give the audience an idea of the living conditions in Labrador. The speaker will be introduced by Professor R. A. Daly...
Undergraduates have sometimes disappeared into the wilds of Labrador for two months of the summer vacation, and on their return their enthusiasm has been somewhat puzzling to their friends. They have been full of their experiences, but their descriptions have usually fallen short of the facts. Few listeners have more of an idea of Labrador than a vague name on the map of North America, and it is to them that Doctor Grenfell will turn tonight when he speaks of the fascination of his work and what it is accomplishing...
...bolster up an inferior race in a fight against hopeless conditions of living, in an impossible land. It is an attempt to educate a people to take care of themselves, and to make the most of the world in which they live. In laying the foundation for a greater Labrador--a province which will represent more than a mere triangle on the upper-right-hand part of the map, it is "missionary work" in its highest and most practical sense...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell will speak on Labrador at 7.30 o'clock Monday in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. The talk will be illustrated by moving pictures taken along the coasts of Labrador and Northern Newfoundland showing the people of the rugged scenery. Professor Reginald A. Daly '93 will introduce the speaker...
...such elaborate fiction as this, the practically nonexistent dangers of working with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador are given forbidding importance; and it is to the end that some of these false notions may be dispelled that I submit this communication. EDWIN K. MERRILL '24 November...