Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentence was chosen by Belgium's hero Cardinal, the late Desire Mercier, to serve as an inscription across the facade of the rebuilt Library of Louvain. To gentle yet righteously incensed Desire Mercier "furore" seemed none too harsh a word to apply to Huns; but nowadays there is a milksop movement afoot to emasculate the Louvain inscription until it could not possibly give offense to those jovial, harmless fellows the Germans, who sacked and burned the original Library of Louvain...
...question up for debate this evening as announced by Associate Professor L. J. A. Mercier, is: "Resolved. That the United States adopt Foreign Minister Briand's treaty; outlawing war between France and the United States...
...speakers were retained as a result of the preliminary trials for the Pasteur Medal, which were held in Sever 36 at 8 o'clock last night. The subject, as presented for discussion by Associate Professor L. J. A. Mercier, was: "Resolved, That Prime Minister Briand's proposal to the United States government to outlaw war should be accepted." Each speaker spoke for five minutes on either side of this question. The judges of the contest, Associate Professor Mercier, A. C. Sprague '21, and Associate Professor F. C. Packard '20, finally selected the following six speakers to compete in the final...
...also had a more specific effect; this was to dispose once more and perhaps finally of the plans for a union of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, much discussed in the Maline conversations sponsored by Viscount Halifax, long president of the English Church Union, and the late Cardinal Mercier...
...priests. Lord Halifax, long President of the English Church Union, hoped to gain some tiny compromise, some small unbending from the Roman Church. His hopes were sustained by some, not many, Anglicans; they were heard with sympathy but without encouragement by certain noted Catholic prelates, notably the late Cardinal Mercier. It was the latter who arranged the annual conversations at Malines, Belgium, the seat of his archbishopric, to which every June came many Anglicans to discuss and forward progress toward church unity...