Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom 64 are at present in good standing--33 being candidates for honors, 20 of whom are at present in good standing. The Department of Romance Languages should therefore now be credited as ranking fourth instead of seventeenth in the concentration of 1931. Very truly yours, L. J. A. Mercier...
Previously Mason Morren had removed all nearby ladders into the building, locked all doors, cut the telephone line. He now ascended and climbed out upon the balustrade, for which Belgium's Hero Primate, the late Desire Cardinal Mercier, approved the following inscription...
Rector v. Architect. Thus far the attitude of Belgians and their Allies continued unswerving and consistent. But more recently Monsignor Ladeuze has reversed his former stand, and denounced as "likely to breed hatred" the stones bearing the inscription authorized by Cardinal Mercier. As champion of the Stones against the Rector, stands forth famed, florid, choleric Architect Whitney Warren of Manhattan. He designed the now virtually completed new Library of Louvain and personally received the inscription from Cardinal Mercier...
...sooner were the Rector's stones hoisted on high than a band of his own students, crying "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!" mobbed the Rector's huskies, hurled down many of his stones, and marched away in triumph, singing La Braban-Qonne, the Belgian national...
...people of Belgium are 90% in favor of Cardinal Mercier's inscription. Students of the University, even the workmen who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...