Word: louvain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Department will speak on "The Growth of Modern French Music." The other lectures will be delivered by Talcott Williams, professor emeritus of journalism and late director of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, who will discuss "the Ottoman Empire," and Professor Maurice de Wulf of the University of Louvain, who will speak on "Monastic Life in the Heart of the Middle Ages...
Professor Albert Edward Janssen, of the University of Louvain and a member of the Belgian Mission, yesterday made a tour of inspection over the University. The visiting commissioner was particularly anxious to get acquainted with the methods of instruction in the Department of Economics...
...letter to Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg. The latter is answered in a tone which ought to be applied to many more Germans and to the German Government itself; "If you can prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return...
What subtle irony! What an efficient pricking of the German sympathy bubble! Our sentimental friends who plead for pity on "poor bleeding Germany" should read this letter. The memory of Louvain called up here so vividly would perhaps deter them from their path of mercy...
...prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal scientific property...