Plan for new Louvain library blends Flemish design with wartime symbols
In restored Louvain Library plans by Warren and Wetmore the building keeps Flemish Renaissance beauty with creamy stone and red brick. The design features a blue slate roof, a covered arcade, and a central Our Lady of Victory motif flanked by St George and St Michael. Commemorative shields honor American learning, Belgian and US coats of arms, and a carillon that will toll national airs during the war’s remembrance.
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Louvain
St. Michael
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
United States
Furore Teutonica Diruta
Dono Americano Restituta
Truth
Alumni and Committee Leadership Listings at University Drive
Public notice lists the University Drive committees and chairpersons including Spectator Warren M. Squires and Floyd W. Taylor as chairs, with Daniel Koplik, H. Lincoln Rothschild, Charles Bennett, Ralph Brown, and others noted among Alumni, Varsity, and Teachers College leaders. It includes names with class years and various department postings, reflecting a campus leadership roster.
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Warren M. Squires
Floyd W. Taylor
Daniel M. Koplik
H. Lincoln Rothschild
Charles D. Bennett
Ralph O. Brown
Butler Leads U.S. Effort in Louvain Reconstruction
Five years after Louvain’s burning an American Committee chaired by Dr Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University aids in reconstructing the University of Louvain. Butler laid the cornerstone of the Louvain Library in July 1921 with ministers present and a charter Bible and silver half dollar sealed in the stone. US Ambassador Whitelock praised the bond between American and Louvain universities.
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Louvain
Nicholas Murray
Butler
Columbia University
University of
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Cardinal Mercier
United States
Whitelock
University of Louvain
Destruction of Library and University During Invasion
The account describes a massive burn and ruin of a university library after wartime attacks, with 300 000 volumes and many manuscripts consumed. It details the loss of the center of student life including the school of commerce and museum, and notes the execution of Pere Dupierreux who documented the events.
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School of Commerce
Clelia Benjamin Returns to Stage in Shaw and You Like It
Clelia Benjamin, class of 1923, formerly Barnard, part of Shaw’s cycle As Far As Thought Can Reach. She played Acrasia in the latest production and earlier portrayed Rosalind in As You Like It produced by Louis Calvert with Columbia and Barnard students.
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Clelia
Benjamin
Barnard
Acrasia
Partiof
Shaw
Benjamin Yed
Rosalind
Louis
Calvert
Columbia
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Carlos Contreras
Corey J. Ford
Otto. S. Whitelock
Teachers College Gertrinde
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Nicholas
Murray Butler
Library of
Alexandria
Brussels
Pere Dupierreux
Tervueren
Clelia' Benjamin
Kenneth W. Plumb
L. R. Watson J. Penn—Business
R. Smith
C. Contreras
Architecture
J. L. Jones
Evelyn Orne
Helen N. Smith
Teachers College
Ralph Cooper
Carl Moszczewski
L. R. Watson
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Cottrell & Leonard
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Chas
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam Ave
New York City
Hudson Pharmacal Co Inc
Liberty. Street
Union Hill
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