Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American Red Cross is magnificent and the extent of its work is simply marvelous. Such a national inspiration should be held permanently for the benefit of human society." CARDINAL MERCIER, LL.D., Primate of Belgium...
...heroes--such men as Dan Craw-ford in Africa, Sherwood Eddy in India, and John R. Mott throughout the world. I am convinced that all those whose names are here mentioned, and many others, belong in the great company of world heroes with Albert of Belgium and with Cardinal Mercier; some of them endured for a lifetime sufferings equal to those of our esteemed Belgian guests, and died unrecognized and unacclaimed by the world. The Christian missionary, on the whole, has been and is as worthy of our respect as any other person who has suffered for and rendered large...
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...
...squash courts at Randolph Gymnasium tomorrow, and the courts will undoubtedly be ready for use by the end of next week. Gymnasium classes for graduates and undergraduates are being held in Hemenway every afternoon at 4 and 5 o'clock. Due to the coming of Cardinal Mercier, the first meetings of these classes were interrupted, but hereafter they will be held as scheduled...
...Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, a man who, in the desolation of his country, stood as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land...