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...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...
...benefit of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's Mission, tomorrow afternoon from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M., the New England Grenfell Association will hold a sale in the Lobby of the Copley-Plaza Hotel. Homespun, hooked mats, baskets and other articles made by the women of Labrador and Northern Newfoundiand will be on sale...
Many members of the Princeton Mission Committee, as well as a number who are not members were engaged during the summer in work at Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell's mission in Labrador. Some men from the University and Yale also took part in the work...