Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...