Word: louvain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leon Marie Joseph Ignace Degrelle, 30-year-old son of a French brewer who be came a naturalized Belgian citizen, first suspected that he had a talent for demagogy when he used to spellbind his fellow law students at Louvain University. Flung at his head by his enemies are the charges that he got no university degree, that he "evaded military service by falsely pleading heart disease." By 1934 he was running his own paper Rex (taking its name from Christus Rex) which, though purporting to work within the frame of the Catholic Party, offended some Catholic leaders...
...Chinese schoolbooks on orders from Japan, and hard to find even a few weeks ago was an eminent Chinese bold enough to say with Peiping's great Historian-Philosopher Dr. Hu Shih: "It would be better to make a Belgium of North China and to make Peiping the Louvain of the nation, than to give up without a struggle...
...Norfolk Southern R. R., slim, curly-headed Father Gannon has been a Jesuit for 23 of his 43 years. No stranger to Fordham, he taught there as a scholastic, directed student dramatics, organized a play shop. After his ordination he studied educational methods at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge, Perugia, Louvain. In 1930 the Jesuit Father General sent him to reopen St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N. J., closed since the War. For his first 80 students, Father Gannon rented four offices from the Chamber of Commerce, an adjoining kitchen for a chemistry laboratory. Last fortnight St. Peter...
Next year there will be the following additions to the department: Gilson from Louvain, France, in medieval philosophy, and Lovejoy, known for his work on primitivism
...Maisin were not professor of pathological anatomy, radiology and cancerology at Belgium's learned University of Louvain, and if he were not Director of its Institute of Cancer, then cautious Editor Francis Carter Wood of the American Journal of Cancer probably would not have given 29 pages in the issue he published last week to Dr. Maisin's astonishing observations on the relation of giblets to cancer...