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...Grenfell, famous Labrador mission-worker, will speak on "Labrador" at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. His talk will be illustrated by moving pictures taken on the coasts of Labrador and Northern Newfoundland. These pictures will show the different fields of activity of the Grenfell Mission, besides helping to give the audience an idea of the living conditions in Labrador. The speaker will be introduced by Professor R. A. Daly...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell will speak on Labrador at 7.30 o'clock Monday in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. The talk will be illustrated by moving pictures taken along the coasts of Labrador and Northern Newfoundland showing the people of the rugged scenery. Professor Reginald A. Daly '93 will introduce the speaker...
Miss Lindsay, a Grenfell Mission worker, was teaching school at Cartwright, Labrador, a village some fifty miles south of Indian Harbor, where I was spending the summer. Thus I happen to know the facts in the case. She left one morning, with her bathing suit, saying she would not be back for lunch. Not appearing at supper time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that...
...idea of abduction by a wild, wandering tribe of Eskimos is ridiculous. In the first place those Eskimos now left on the Labrador are as peaceful a race as can well be found anywhere. Secondly with the possible exception of the Hudson Straits region, some six hundred miles north of Cartwright, Labrador has no wandering tribes of Eskimos. Labrador Eskimos live in scattered villages along the coast, of which only some very small ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this...
...such elaborate fiction as this, the practically nonexistent dangers of working with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador are given forbidding importance; and it is to the end that some of these false notions may be dispelled that I submit this communication. EDWIN K. MERRILL '24 November...