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...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...
Those who have the cause of church unity at heart cannot help expressing profound regret at the encyclical, no matter how much it was to be expected; for the friendly and understanding attitude of such outstanding Romanists as Cardinal Mercier and his successor, who since the war have been periodically conferring with certain Angelicans on the subject of unity, have led us to hope that Rome was about to abandon its medieval intransigence...
Plans for the adaption of the Reading Period in the Department of Romance Languages were outlined to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday in interviwes with Professors J. D. M. Ford '94, chairman of the department, and Associate Professor L. J. Mercier, chairman of the Board of Tutors in the Division of Modern Languages...