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...Germans would have destroyed the whole university, but that the buildings are scattered through the city," said Professor De Wulf. "Three of the 15 or 20 buildings were utterly demolished; and the troops destroyed the laboratories and the interiors of the others during the retreat just before the armistice...
When asked whether a new library would be built on the site of the famous old one which was completely destroyed, Professor De Wulf replied: "No, they will not build there, but we will probably leave the ruins there. The university would not be free to build on the ruins. It is an historical monument, and the government would interfere with any change. The American universities have raised $500,000 to erect a new library, which will probably be built outside the city on more extensive grounds. I don't know when they will begin to collect books...
Professor De Wulf hesitated when asked if he thought Louvain would soon recover its former prominence. "We had four idle years," he said. "We have many students, but I rather think the number will decrease next year. This is a period of reconstruction; young men will go into business instead of college. The arts will suffer, although medicine and engineering will have a great development. We hope to have some strangers, however, for I have heard that there are already some Spaniards and Portugese coming, and we expect to have also some English and Irish...
...German advance in 1914 was so rapid that escape was impossible. The faculty of the university, although forced to remain in occupied Belgium, suffered little from the war. "The students were wonderful to join the army," Professor De Wulf continued. "There was an electric wire fence around the boundaries six feet high, but nevertheless hundreds and hundreds passed...
...merely business relations; there can be no sympathy for centuries. They literally exhausted the country. They wanted the copper, they wanted the wool, they wanted the cotton, they wanted everything." They were allowed to want, at the University of Louvain at least, for all the copper, including Professor De Wulf's six elaborate chandeliers, was collected in one of the college buildings. When the German officer demanded it, the president of the university replied: "We have no copper; all is gone." A party of Germans then searched every corner in every room of the building, and as this group proceeded...