Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Grenfell has spent more than twenty-five years on the Labrador Coast in medical, religious and social work, on behalf mainly of the large number of Newfoundland fishermen who visit that coast every year during the fishing season. The permanent establishments of his work are, part of them, on the island of Newfoundland. He was knighted by King Edward VII in 1907. He spent some months last year at the front in France in medical and religious work...
...editors and "publicists" and similar classes of useful but not overly productive citizens. If Harvard is really teaching policemen to be better policemen, and will from time to time add branches wherein carpenters are taught to be better carpenters, farmers better farmers, blacksmiths better blacksmiths, tailors better tailors, fishermen better fishermen--if so be Harvard has entered upon a career of wider usefulness to those who really produce the bread and butter which all the people eat, and those who build the houses and the clothes and the tools which make civilization a vital thing, then hooray for Harvard. State...
...library in special edition extra--illustrated by the insertion of the manuscript inscription of the presentation from the author, many portraits of Washington, and fine autograph letter signed by Washington. Grover Cleveland was also a keen fisherman and wrote a very clever little brochure "A Defense of Fishermen." Only 20 of these were issued and the library's copy was presented by the author with a charming autograph letter. John Qincy Adams, De Witt Clinton, and Daniel Webster were enthusiastic fisherman in their time...
...John Mason Little, Jr., '97 gave a lecture on "Service under Dr. Grenfell" in the Living Room of the Union last evening. Illustrating his talk with stereopticon pictures, Dr. Little outlined the work which Dr. Grenfell and his corps are accomplishing among the fishermen of Labrador, and spoke especially of the help that college students are rendering by spending their summer vacations among the missionaries...
...people along the Atlantic shores of British America, Dr. Little pointed out, are almost entirely poor fishermen. In the northern district are Eskimos, while in the interior regions are some tribes of Indians in a primitive state of civilization. The majority of the population is composed of English, Scotch, and Irish who have become illiterate and isolated in the course of the last three hundred years. The women in this territory have little social standing, being allotted much heavy manual labor in the work of drying fish, besides having to care for their homes...