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...nearly 300 years, Laval University had been almost as grim and ascetic as its founder, François de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny, first bishop of Quebec. The bishop wore a hair shirt, watered his soup, slept on wood. The university, which De Laval started as a seminary in 1663, was cramped into narrow, grey stone buildings in Quebec City's huddled Quartier Latin. Its curriculum concentrated on theology, law and medicine. For diversion, students were expected to turn to religious reading or take meditative walks in the walled courtyard of the university...
Last week. Laval University made plans for a big change. A rally in Quebec's Coliseum launched a $10 million public subscription campaign to bring Laval up-to-date. The university would spread over an area of one square mile in the spacious St. Foye district. There would be white stone buildings, a swimming pool and broad reaches of campus. It would cost $100 million and the whole job would take 50 years. Premier Maurice Duplessis made the first move: a check for $2,000,000 from the province of Quebec...
...tranquil on the campus, and that he would not tolerate "any further attempts on the part of individuals within our staff ... to besmirch the good reputation of the university." Dobie decided that that meant him. In the weekly Texas Spectator, he called Painter "a flunky of the Laval pattern...
Tall and ruggedly built, Bishop Roy has a scholarly, ascetic personality which brought him his only criticism from the troops: "He's much too saintly for us." He took his B.A. at Laval University when only 18. After ordination, he studied in Paris, returned to Canada (with doctorates in both theology and philosophy) to a teaching position at Laval. After helping to write a new constitution for the university and carrying it to Rome for the Pope's acceptance, he became Laval's chaplain...
Among others with whom Lanny is on good terms: Pierre Laval, Albert Einstein (they play Mozart sonatas for piano and violin), Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins ("May I call you Lanny?" says Harry), OSS Chief William J. Donovan, Admiral Darlan. Lanny is also, believe it or not, friendly with Hermann Goring and Adolf Hitler...