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Never in all history was there a more direct challenge to civilization and the culture which gives civilization its living spirit than the destruction of the University of Louvain. This deed of the Germans was likened by Cardinal Mercier to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Our generation and the countless once to come can never succeed in making it what it was; all any of us can do is to make some effort towards restoring, if only to a small degree, the glory of its past. With the appointment of an Executive Committee, whose headquarters will...
...squash courts at Randolph Gymnasium tomorrow, and the courts will undoubtedly be ready for use by the end of next week. Gymnasium classes for graduates and undergraduates are being held in Hemenway every afternoon at 4 and 5 o'clock. Due to the coming of Cardinal Mercier, the first meetings of these classes were interrupted, but hereafter they will be held as scheduled...
...Cardinal Mercier, Belgium's hero primate, was given the degree of Doctor of Laws, by the University at an impressive academic ceremony held in his honor at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. This was the second time within twenty-four hours that such an honor had been conferred...
...Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, a man who, in the desolation of his country, stood as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land...
...Cardinal Mercier, the Belgian heropriest of Malines, will be the guest of the University this afternoon, when President Lowell, the Corporation and Board of Overseers, members of the Faculties and their guests and all members of the University will assemble in Sanders Theatre to welcome...