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...Royal College of Surgeons, for a time associated with Sir Frederick Treves, King Edward's surgeon, Dr. Grenfell has been engaged in medical and philanthropic work among the inhabitants of Labrador for over 14 years. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship, the "Strathcona" cruises the length of the coast in summer, and during the winter covers great distances with dog-teams in his tours among the sparse and needy population. On one of his voyages he made the first chart of the coast which is in any way accurate. Dr. Grenfell...
...graduate of King's College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Grenfell has been engaged in medical work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador for over 14 years. In the summer he has cruised the length of the coast in his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona," in winter making long tours with his dog-teams. He has recently been made a companion of St. Michael and St. George by the King of England for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell gave this lecture in the Union two years ago, and showed himself peculiarly well-fitted to treat...
...Grenfell has made the welfare of Labrador and its inhabitants a life work. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship and his dog-teams, he covers great distances in his tours among the sparse and needy population. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon, a mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression, and the drink evil which finds peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk...
...clock in Pierce 110, Mr. Alexander E. Brown, who is now vice-president and general manager of the Brown Hoisting Machine Company, and probably the greatest authority on hoisting machinery in the country, will deliver an illustrated lecture before the Engineering Society on "The Application of Hoisting Machinery to Ship Building." This lecture which was delivered last evening before the Society of Arts in Boston, will be open to all members of the University...
...HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY. "The Application of Hoisting Machinery to Ship Building." Mr. Alex E. Brown, Vice President, Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Pierce...