Word: labrador
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...they found him a "capital" student, but finding the University after three and a half years a little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma and the final semester, to become a painter. From his studies he was lured successively by Vermont, Alaska, the Straits of Magellan, Labrador, the Alps, Tierra del Fuego, Newfoundland. In one place he was arrested for assaulting a swindler. In Newfoundland, the good fisherfolk, seeing him staring out to sea in all kinds of bad weather, concluded he was a German spy signaling to submarines. "Oh, lots of things have happened...
...Grenfell, famous Labrador settler who lectured last night at the Phillips Brooks House told a CRIMSON reporter an amusing story of how he was almost shot as a burgler on one of his earlier visits to Cambridge...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell '09, will talk on "The Challenge of Labrador," at the Phillips Brooks House on March 29 at 8 o'clock His lecture will be illustrated with moving pictures of life on the Labrador coast...
Every year a number of Harvard students go north with Dr. Grenfell and aid him in his work of taking medical aid and knowledge to the Eskimos. Every year he comes into contact with 10,000 people scattered along 600 miles on the Labrador coast and has carried on his work uninterruptedly for many years...
...Grenfell has been a medical worker on the Labrador coast for over 35 years and on any subject relative to it, he is well prepared to speak...