The Daily Princetonian, April 3, 1913

DR. HALSEY TO ADDRESS PHILADELPHIAN SOCIETY
"The Work of Dr. Grenfell in Labrador" to be Described at Meeting Tonight

The regular Thursday evening meeting of the Philadelphian Society will have this evening as its speaker Dr. Jesse Halsey, who is a member of the medical staff of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen at Labrador. The subject of Dr. Halsey's address will be "The Work of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell in Labrador." The lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides showing the nature of the physical obstacles to be overcome in such a severe climate and the condition of the fishermen to whom Dr. Grenfell's mission has been a Godsend.

Dr. Grenfell's Career
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell is Superintendent of the Labrador Medical Mission of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. He was born at Chester, England in 1865, went to Oxford University and took a course in medicine at the London Hospital, where he later held the post of House Surgeon. In May of 1907 he was granted the degree of M.D. by the University of Oxford the first man upon whom that degree was conferred, in the whole history of the University. He successively received the Hon. LL.D. degree from Williams College, and an Hon. M.A. degree from Harvard in 1909. In 191 1 he received the Hon. M.D. degree from Toronto University.

His Work in Labrador
In 1892, Dr. Grenfell seeking for an opportunity for service accepted the call of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen to found a mission on the bleak Labrador coast, which had been hitherto neglected. His field of work comprised six hundred miles of almost barren
rock along the Labrador coast where a small population of fiishermen lived a hard and neglected existence, without means of education, without medical assistance and at the mercy of
local traders. The story of the founding and development of the Labrador Deep Sea Mission is a story of heroism and sacrifice which has won for Dr. Grenfell the admiration of everyone; especially has he won the suport of college men wherever he has come in contact with them. Yale University fitted out and manned a hospital boat for his use, as did Princeton in 1909.

At present the mission, through Dr. Grenfell's untiring efforts and unusual personalty has an equipment of four hospitals and a despensary, provides house visitation by dog sledges, conducts schools, runs fisherman's cooperative stores and other business enterprises, and administers to the spiritual life and to the uplift of the whole Labrador coast.