Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operating with Professor Spaulding and Mr. Wilson are various specialists on the staff of the School, who participate in supervising the first-year apprenticeship in their own fields, and who take full charge of second-year apprenticeship for classroom instructors. The list includes Professor L. J. A. Mercier in French and Professor Ralph Beatley '13 in mathematics. In addition to supervision from members of the Education Faculty practice teachers work under the immediate oversight of critic teachers in the schools, who are selected and paid by the Graduate School of Education for this work...
...intertwined as to spell out suggestively rather than distinctly the inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said, not only outrage his artistic conscience by spoiling the effect of the balustrade, but it would also be a base betrayal of the sainted Cardinal...
...library neared completion potent U. S. pacifist groups, spokesmanned by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, finally persuaded Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University, that the Warren-Mercier inscription was "likely to breed hatred." Soon rector and architect openly quarrelled. Dramatically Monsignor Ladeuze brandished a cablegram beneath the slightly beaked patrician nose of Architect Warren...
...people of Belgium are 90% in favor of Cardinal Mercier's inscription. Students of the University, even the workers who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come 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 70 million Germans wept for 1,000 years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France.' I shall fight to ensure the perpetuation...
...huskies to rush his stones into place. Rector Ladeuze stopped them with a court injunction and the entire police force of Louvain, then hired other huskies to put up his stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof of the library, hurled down and shattered most of the balustrade, marched away chanting Belgium's national air La Brabançonne. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze had a third set of "stones" hastily moulded from plaster of Paris. With these in place...