Word: rectoring
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When the corner stone of the new Library was laid, Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain, exclaimed with fervor: "When generations of the future ask our successors about the origin and sense of this monument of which we lay the first stone, they will be answered: 'At Louvain the Germans, by burning the library, definitely broke with wisdom and with civilization...
...Rector v. Architect. Thus far the attitude of Belgians and their Allies continued unswerving and consistent. But more recently Monsignor Ladeuze has reversed his former stand, and denounced as "likely to breed hatred" the stones bearing the inscription authorized by Cardinal Mercier. As champion of the Stones against the Rector, stands forth famed, florid, choleric Architect Whitney Warren of Manhattan. He designed the now virtually completed new Library of Louvain and personally received the inscription from Cardinal Mercier...
Therefore Architect Warren and Rector Ladeuze faced and threatened each other in Louvain, last week, careless that they were making ridiculous a great and majestic atrocity...
Huskies Hired. Leaving the Rector, at last, Mr. Warren hired husky masons and tried to rush his stones into place. Before this could be done Monsignor Ladeuze got an injunction, called out police, hired his own huskies, and superintended the placing of his own set of stones, while Architect Warren fumed with impotence...
...sooner were the Rector's stones hoisted on high than a band of his own students, crying "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!" mobbed the Rector's huskies, hurled down many of his stones, and marched away in triumph, singing La Braban-Qonne, the Belgian national...