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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...
...other hand, the crude fact that young men of wealth, or at least sufficient means to seek purely selfish pleasure, should find satisfaction in coming "to do chores" for the sake of others, is really the best thing that college men have done for Labrador. It does more for Labrador than Labrador may admit or even understand. It is the best thing any man can do for the world anywhere--it is the one modern interpretation of what Christ Himself...
...surgeon I have often been called on to try and prolong for a year or two a life which I know perfectly well is not worth prolonging--a life that is only a curse to its day and generation. The work that college men are doing in Labrador, by changing these lives by example, helps to make all the difference in the world. I have seen the proof of this, while they have been unloading coal vessels--a tough job, or digging foundations in a boulder bank glued together by heavy clay, or blasting out a water supply through granite...
...hand college men have done some of the following things. They have built, run, and supported for almost ten years a summer dispensary, with school and clubhouse, and have given fine service in a fast motorboat over fifty miles of coast at Spotted Islands on the north coast of Labrador. They have helped that section of our people in a thousand ways, materially, mentally, spiritually. This work began by one Williams man going down at his own expense for a summer. He is in China...