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...Wilfred T. Grenfell will give an illustrated lecture upon "Cold Facts From Labrador" in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Monday, November 22, at 7.45 P. M. Although the meeting is to be held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House, all members of the University will be welcome. Illustrations will be shown upon the screen while the veteran doctor will tell a few stories which for years have interested many Cambridge audiences and made him one of the most popular lecturers who come to the University...
Variety, adventure and human interest are elements which stand out primarily in Dr. Grenfell's talks. For twenty-eight years he has acted as a surgeon, fought disease and given aid to thousands of fisherman who have been held up on ice floes on the Labrador Coast. He and his assistants cared for over 12,000 patients in one year in their eight hospitals on land and the five on sea. Moreover, being almost the sole agent of civilization in the bleak north, his work has been extended so that he now operates a children's home, two industrial stations...
Through his 12 years' experience as an explorer, first as an assistant to Peary on his successful dash to the North Pole in 1908, and later on expeditions of his own along the Coast of Labrador, Mr. MacMillan has gathered a large amount of material, from which he will draw for his talk...
...left the teaching profession and became assistant to Peary on his trip to the North Pole in 1908-1909. Throughout the three years following that famous expedition, Mr. MacMillan conducted cruising trips of his own along the Coast of Labrador, with the special purpose of studying the Eskimos in that vicinity. From 1913 to 1917, he was commander of the Crocker Land Expedition. His next exploit will be the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition, which will be sent...
...MacMillan has had twelve years experience as an explorer, first as Peary's assistant in 1908 in his successful trip to the North Pole, and later on expeditions of his own along the coast of Labrador, from which he will draw material for his talk. His next exploit will be the Bowdoin-Baffin Land expedition in 1920-21. This will be sent for exploration under the auspices of Bowdoin College, from which Mr. MacMillan was graduated...