Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When U. S. contributors offered to rebuild the Library, Belgium's beloved Hero Primate, the late Desire Cardinal Mercier, authorized the following inscription for the fa?...
Professor L. J. A. Mercier, associate professor of French, and Professor Harlan True Stetson, assistant professor of astronomy, have been appointed as the professors to represent the University for the year 1928-29 under the interchange agreement between Harvard and a number of colleges in the western part of the country...
Their term of service will fall in the second half-year, during which time Professor Mercier and Professor Stetson will lecture at a number of educational institutions...
...milksop is bristling, ruddy, white-haired Whitney Warren, smart and picturesque Manhattan architect, who designed the new Library, and received from Cardinal Mercier the virile Latin inscription. Last week Mr. Warren was in Belgium bristling against the would-be emasculators. "The nigger in the woodpile," said he scathingly, "has evidently been my dear friend, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. . . . The people of Belgium want the inscription and I might add, a very large majority of the American contributors do also. ... In America the lives of so-called free American citizens are made unbearable...
What "furor" meant to Desiré Mercier was discreetly hinted by foxy Architect Warren, who revealed that the Cardinal said, two months before his death: "When the Germans come back [to Louvain] as they will and as they have through the past centuries, when they read this inscription countersigned by America perhaps they may behave themselves more decently than they did the last time...