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...burning of the magnificent Renaissance library of the University of Louvain in August 1914 was a classic "German atrocity" barely eclipsed by the shooting of Nurse Edith Cavell. Classic too is the furious quarrel which has raged for more than a year about what inscription shall stand over the new Library of Louvain, built with U. S. cash (TIME, Oct. 17, 1927, et seq.). Even amid the excitement of campaigning to become President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover found time to air his strong view about the inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant...
Proud and peculiar is Mr. Warren's concept of the roles of architect and client. He might have been speaking of any of his achievements when he said of the Library of Louvain : "As the architect and artist of the building I possess the right to insist that it shall be constructed as planned, and even after the completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell...
EDWARD D. ADAMS Chairman, Committee on War Memorials to American Engineers New York City The clipping: "The new library of the University of Louvain costing $2,000,000, was built entirely by American money. Those American Shylocks...
...interminable and shocking squabble as to what would be a suitable inscription for the new Library of Louvain (TIME, July 9 et seq.), evoked, last week, a sporting proposal...
...Rector of Louvain University, Monsignor Ladeuze, proposed to Mr. Whitney Warren, the U. S. architect, whose inscription has been rejected, that a bust of Architect Warren shall be placed in the new Library and shall be sportingly inscribed : "Praenobilis Americae filius Warren ingenio cordeque perfecit. (Warren, the most noble son of America, completed [this library] by his genius and heart...