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...Grenfell first became interested in medical missions among the fishermen of Labrador in 1892. The suffering of the natives and the intense poverty throughout the fishing settlements led to the gradual establishment of a chain of hospitals, nursing stations, orphanages and co-operative stores along the coast. Communication between the scattered settlements was established by the visits of the mail boat, which now acts also as a hospital ship, collecting patients along the coast and bringing them to the various hospitals where proper care can be taken of them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice...
Efforts are being made to teach the people to live with more comfort. Along the coast, for example, woolen weaving has been established so that during the winter the women can make clothes, and agricultural stations have been located in the less barren parts of the country where experiments are made. Lumber mills have been established, and several peat bogs have been opened. In a word, the most is being made out of the limited resources of the country...
...Grenfell spoke of the large opportunities for service in Labrador, and mentioned the fact that at the present time eight Harvard graduates are actively engaged in mission work along the coast. In closing he referred briefly to various other occupations common to the natives and spoke especially of the existence of the whale industry and the methods employed by those engaged...
...includes over 1300 students both men and women, 176 instructors, 3000 acres of land, and about 100 buildings, erected almost entirely by the students. These physical forces are not an end but a means for a great purpose. The negro masses had a consuming ambition for education, but along with this was a feeling that once educated it would be disgraceful to do manual labor any longer. As cooking, farming, carpentering, and other practical occupations, were the chief things taught at Tuskegee, this feeling was one of the chief obstacles to its early growth. Now, however, this old prejudice...
...concrete seats in sections 26, running back to section 16, were filled, with two rows of the wooden seats in front, and two rows of seats in the parapet. Then seats were assigned in the wooden seats in front of sections 37, and the rear seats under the roof along the centre of the field. Thus the College graduates asking for two seats have the following sections: the wooden seats in front of sections 37 and 28, the seats in the parapet (under the roof) in sections 27-37 inclusive, and the seats in sections 16 to 27, inclusive...