Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past twenty years there have been hundreds of college men and college women helping in Labrador. You ask me, "What have they done?" As a surgeon I am absolutely convinced of the value of trying to record what we call "end results"--to show actually what has been accomplished, and so to reveal "sloppy" work and work that does not justify itself. If trying to analyze results is of any use to others, they have a right to ask us also to try and do it. For I have found that the college men have really given a lot. Most...
...return Labrador has given them what I consider an invaluable gift--the gift a laboratory gives a chemist, or a good clinic gives a doctor. It has afforded a test field for the use of the talents of body, mind, and soul, for which their long and expensive education has been undertaken a fine opportunity of a field that, by its isolation and crude conditions, shows them the immense value to the world of being able to do things that contribute to life. Many have told me that in conventional civilization they had not seen the personal challenge of life...
...Phillips Brooks House Committee on Missions has appointed a special member, E. K. Merrill '24, to take charge of enrollments for Dr. Grenfell's Labrador work in the coming summer...
Volunteers will leave in the latter half of June, and remain in Labrador until early in September. This year they will be assigned to St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Battle Harbor, Indian Harbor, and Harrington on the Labrador coast. They will engage in boat trips to secure supplies and transport urgent medical cases, and do such work as digging foundations, unloading vessels, or painting and machine shop jobs. Volunteers who are in the Medical School, or who intend taking up medicine will find many opportunities for helpful service...
...chief attractions of the work is the personal contact with Dr. Grenfell, who visits all the mission stations during the summer. It is his inspiring personality that has been the mainspring of the work of the Labrador missions, and it is due to him that such keen interest has been shown by college men in this from of summer service. It is with the view of rekindling this interest that Phillips Brooks House is making special effort to secure a large enrollment of students from the University for the coming season...