Word: labrador
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thirty Years Among the Labrador Fishermen" will be the subject of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell's lecture at 8 o'clock tonight in the Phillips Brooks House, which he will accompany with stereoptican slides of the work at Indian Harbor. Preceding the talk by Dr. Grenfell, a dinner will be given for him at 6.15 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House, to which the members of the Grenfell Club in the University have been invited...
Three distinguished men will mount the platform of Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, during the next two weeks, Professor C.T. Copeland '89, Roger W. Babson, famous statistician, and Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, for many years medical missionary in. Labrador and Newfoundland, are speakers scheduled to talk under the auspices of the Christian Association...
...Thirty Years Among the Labrador Fishermen" will be Dr. Grenfell's subject when he speaks on December 16. Dr. Grenfell, who received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from the University in 1909, has worked for many years in the bleak fishing towns of Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts. An Englishman by birth, he attended London and Oxford Universities, and started his career as a medical missionary in 1887. Many Harvard students have spent summers working with the Grenfell Mission...
...finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...
...TIME, June 22 et seq.), last week crossed icy Davis Strait to Jack Lane's Bay, Labrador. The Bow-doiris forecastle was awash, a 400-lb. drum of gasoline had been swept overboard, a rare specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings...