Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-03
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Excellent Report From Dr. Grenfe Work in LabFador Collection of War Literature-Coach for Soccer Team NanedLSuccess of Cooperative Society.

New Haven, Dec. 2.-In regard to l the medical mission work in Labrador in which a number of Yale under graduates have recently been inter ested, Dr. Wilfred L. Grenfell, who is at the head of this new movement has published some very interesting facts concerning his work. In spite of the set back which the philanthropic woHk has suffered from the war, the medical mission in Labrador and Newfound- | land was most vigorously pushed this past season. The Yale contingent that went north to help during the sumer consisted of 12 undergraduates. This was stronger than usual Fish
 ing from which a large part of the funds necessary in carrying on the | work is derived, was very good. The | total catch was smaller than usual but | the demand. owing to the war. gave much better prices. Also the spruce 1 forests which are owned by the mis- sion contributed a large quantity of props for English and French mines, l the normal suply from Norway and | Sweden being cut off. The main for | ward step of the mission during the year was the building of a winter | cottage hospital in the northern part | of Labrador. To accomplish this the power yawl 'Yale" was an absolutely | essential factor. She completed seven | 300 mile trips during the season be- l sides her long voyage north and south to winter quarters and visits to 15 | settlements when she brought IT pa I tients back to the hospital Only the | new engines given and installed by Yale undergraduates last year made so much work possible. This years results have already had their effect l in the fact that already 15 students have volunteered their services to the | mission for next season.
 Last year tEM president of the uni
 versity appointed committee to assist the library in the collection of all
 kinds of literature and material G- lat:ng to the war and especially the more fugitive sort of material such as proclamations, and so forth. This
 committee in cooperation with the li- brary has sent out many letters and
 circulars to all parts of the country and elsewhere and has made an ex- hauStive search, wherever possible,
 for every type of material ref1ecting
 the events of the war. The result of
 these efforts has been that Yale Uni-
 versity now possesses as good collec- | tion of this sort as there is in the
 country, if not the best The collec- tion consists of considerable contem- poraneous history but, what is more
 important, files of newspapers and
 magazines from the majority of the European countries. Another form of material carefully collected by the committee consists of recruiting post
 CTS, intimately connected with the war
 These reflect a side of the war that
 cannot be found in books or to any
 great extent even in current periodi- calls and newspapers. Also, a large collection of letters from men doing service in the war zone has been , made. In addition to this material
 there are large numbers of maps, pho l tographs and sketches of war scenes
 and great deal of miscellaneous ma
 terial that is so diverse in its nature that no definite classification can be made of it as yet. In the difficult
 work necessitated by the gathering of } this imense amount of material. the . committee and the University Library
 have been materially assisted by both
 Yale men and non Yale men. This , Yale collection of war literature and material will be of great value to fu- ture historians dealing with the pres ent war.
 Since the wireless controlled tor pedo invented by John Hays Ham, . mond, Jr., 1910 $, is now under con- . sideration by the United States Gov ernment for purchase and develop ment the account of, it's invention has
 created a considerable amount of in- terest among Yale graduates as well ] as undergraduates. Shortly after l graduation from the Sheffield Scienti- ! fic School five years ago, MT. Ham, : mond started experimenting at Glou- e cester Bay, near Boston. His first important invention was that of the :. little electric dog" from which he first got his inspiration for the wire less controlled torpedo of war. These
 dogs are uncanny because they are
 inanimate and dumb looking devices which follow in the path of illumina. 7 tion whenever a hashlight is pointed II at them. MT. Hammond's next devel.
 opment was wireless boat. It was
 1 40 foot craft with @ speed of 33 mile: o an hour. In short while this small S craft was making trips to sea under }. the power of her own engines bu
 without a single soul on board. B! n the use of his elaborately equipped - wireless station on shore MT. Ham a mond was able to guide the boat ou
 to sea between the encircling rock
 that mark the entrance to Glouceste
 harbor. In the further developmen Il of Hammonds apparatus a missil IL can be launched in midair from al s aeroplane and directed to hit any de
 sired object after leaving the mug
 gle of the weapon. In his work MI e Hamond has had the cooperation O a his father, John Hays Hammond, al II advocate of the cause of internationa
 peace and one of the leaders of tn
 movement to bring About a cessation of the war. With his aversion to wa L. the father has encouraged his son i s the belief that perfection of sue It weapons of defense will compel peace
 Recently an interesting and import
 ant operation was undertaken in tn m Art School by Hammond Smith an , I his assistants of New York in the re - pair and restoration Of over 70 of tn ,s Jarves collection of early Italia K paintings. This was a work demand
 ing expert knowledge of techuics
 methods of the old masters and lon m experience and skill in attacking tn d varied problems that confront tn le restorer. IR the case of the Jarve If collection the task was to strengthe
 those panels which had become fragil
 from age or much worm- -riddled, b , the process called cradling Othe s pictures needed little more than care oi full removal of discoioration fro1 to swoke, dust or old varnish. The Jar le yes collection will soon be rehun
 with increased wall space and mor
 appropriate arrangement, when th