"DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FURY; RESTORED BY AMERICAN GENEROSITY." Thus reads the inscription that is to be carved on the fa?ade of the new Library at Lou vain, work on which was ordered resumed last week by Whitney Warren, Manhattan architect.
Precisely why the work had ever been stopped was obscured in a fog of misunderstanding. Mr. Warren was under, the impression that a cessation had been ordered by Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, acting for the Carnegie Endowment, one of the chief contributors to the U. S. fund for the...
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