Word: louvain
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...present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth of 20, who is now an undergraduate at the famed Belgian University of Louvain...
Father of two children, citizen of Louvain, one Edmond Morren, a master stonemason, stealthily entered the new Library of Louvain just before dawn one morning last week...
...inscription was finally omitted by order of Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University (TIME, July 9), who caused to be erected first a stone balustrade without inscription which was smashed by his own students, and second an equally inscriptionless plaster of Paris balustrade...
Stealthily, last week, and then boldly Citizen Morren of Louvain proceeded to wield a stonemason's pick on the balustrade for 45 minutes, destroying 160 small columns...
German View. The official view of the German Republic, based on the findings of a German Commission of Inquiry, is that the combustion of the Library of Louvain arose from accidental causes, in the absence of any adequate fire fighting equipment, and without incendiary act by any German whomsoever. Nonetheless beaten Germany has made the reparation specified in the Treaty of Versailles; and Monsignor Ladeuze does not hold that this reparation should now be repatriated to Germany...