Word: louvain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Never in all history was there a more direct challenge to civilization and the culture which gives civilization its living spirit than the destruction of the University of Louvain. This deed of the Germans was likened by Cardinal Mercier to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Our generation and the countless once to come can never succeed in making it what it was; all any of us can do is to make some effort towards restoring, if only to a small degree, the glory of its past. With the appointment of an Executive Committee, whose headquarters will...
...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 and the discoveries of modern psychology...
...would be a graceful act if Americans would do what they could to reestablish the University of Louvain," said Robert H. Gardiner '76 to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...Gardiner is one of several prominent Boston business men engaged in inaugurating a campaign for a fund to be used for the re-establishment of the University of Louvain. Cardinal Mercier has given his hearty co-operation in forwarding the plan. Any who are interested in the work may send contributions to Kidder, Peabody & Co., 115 Devonshire street, Boston. There will be no personal solicitation of funds...
...letter accepting President Lowell's invitation, Cardinal Mercier said that he would regard it as an honor to "express his gratitude to the great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library...