Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wilfred T. Grenfell, ex-captain of the Oxford, England, football eleven, now medical missionary to the deep-sea fishermen of the North Sea and Labrador, will speak at the meeting of the Christian Association in Holden Chapel at 6.45 this evening. While captain of the eleven Dr. Grenfell was converted by Mr. Moody. After studying medicine under Sir Andrew Clarke, the eminent physician, he went out in 1892 to give his life to the work for fishermen. As Dr. Gren fell has had a remarkable experience, he should be of especial interest to college men. All members of the University...
...reading-room conducted by Harvard men for fishermen on the Boston T Wharf has been open daily since January 6. As the need for such a room had long been felt, the success of the undertaking has proved complete. Financial support has been forthcoming through the kindness of the Boston Port Society, and the interest taken by the fish merchants and the seamen themselves has proved most gratifying...
...success of the Fishermen's Reading Room, conducted by the Sailor Mission branch of the Christian Association, marks another step in the progress of Harvard's practical philanthropy. That the undertaking has been a thorough success the large daily attendance of seafaring men shows. But that it might be made more attractive to sailors and so be made still more successful, the experience of its promoters shows; and they have decided to put on file in the room a number of periodicals. To the payment of the subscription prices for these periodicals students are asked to contribute. We hope...
...Monday evening the first concert at the T wharf reading room for fishermen was given under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Union. Among those who took part in the entertainment were D. Fales '97, D. Grant M. S., and J. B. Hawes...
...Harvard Christian Association will soon open a reading room in their new quarters at the T Wharf in Boston. The T Wharf is situated at the foot of State Street on Atlantic Avenue and all the fishermen that put into Boston Harbor moor there. This year the New England Fish Commission, in recognition of past services, has given a room on the wharf to the association. During the past weeks this room has been furnished with chairs and tables and provided with papers, periodicals, games, etc., the object being to provide a plain, attractive sort of club room...