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...toward Modernism, which tended to look upon religion as a subjective experience and the church as a purely human institution in the process of evolution. Pius X called this "a synthesis of all heresies," cracked down so hard on Modernism that some Catholics called the encyclical harsh. Retorted Cardinal Mercier of Belgium: "If in the days of Luther and Calvin the church had possessed a Pope of the temper of Pius, would Protestantism have succeeded in getting a third of Europe to break loose from Rome...
...Laws. It was the first time in the school's 132-year history that a faculty member had been thus honored, the ninth time in a half century that St. Louis University had granted an honorary degree to anyone. (Among previous recipients: Marshal Foch, Belgium's Cardinal Mercier, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, now Pius XII.) "He has been more than a teacher," read the citation. "He has been a symbol...
Jean Moulin, alias Joseph Mercier, alias Regis, alias Max, who held the unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches. Once, after being tortured by the Germans, his courage failed him and he tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore a scarf and became known as The Man with the Muffler). Eventually, De Gaulle charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings...
...Government, (effective July 1); Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, effective July 1); Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, (effective July 1); Arthur F. Whittem '02, associate professor of Romance Languages, dean of special students, and director of University Extension, (effective September 1); Louis J. A. Mercier, associate professor of French and Education, (effective September 1); Frederick G. White '19, faculty instructor in English and secretary of the Division of Modern Languages, (effective June 30); William J. Cunningham, James J. Hill Professor of Zoology, as curator of marine invertebrates, (effective June...
...Mercier has done a good deal of magazine editing, outside his work with the French Department which he joined in 1911. From 1927 to 1930 he was associate editor of "The French Review;" since 1935 he has been associate editor of "Education," and he has held the same post since '37 on the "The New Scholastic." His courses deal with French composition and seventeenth century French literature...