Word: honors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cardinal Mercier, Belgium's hero primate, was given the degree of Doctor of Laws, by the University at an impressive academic ceremony held in his honor at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. This was the second time within twenty-four hours that such an honor had been conferred...
...honor to a great hero of the great war, whose victories are not of a military but of a saintly order; by profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic philosophy he created when still young the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain, and possessing the strenuous industry of a scholar he took as his motto "Labor as a good soldier of Christ." His philosophic system comprehended the thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages...
After the Cardinal had finished speaking the Choir sang the Belgian National Hymn in honor of the guests. This was followed by the benediction
...account of the academic meeting of the University in honor of Cardinal Mercier, College exercises from 3.30 to 4.30 o'clock will be suspended this afternoon...
...attention of all undergraduates to the visit of Cardinal Mercier, and to impress upon them that the least they can do to show their respect for the distinguished Belgian primate and for the country he represents, is to be present at the exercises to be held in his honor in the yard at 3 o'clock this afternoon. J. C. BOLTON '20, J. N. BORLAND '21 H. F. COLT...