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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...