New Britain herald., 1928-10-13
GALPIN DESCRIBES .L0UvAIN CEREMONY
Trinity Professor Attends Dedi.
 cation of New Building

"The events in the dedication Of the library of the University of Lou vain. were picturesque in the ex- .treme," said Professor Stanley l.. Galpin of Berlin, head of romance languages department, Trinity col- lege Hartford, who has just returned home from an extensive trip in Bel- gium and, France. Professor Galpin attended the dedication. exercises as the official representative of Trinity college. The library was built with money contributed by American schools and colleges, among which was Trinity college.
 Professor Galpin's own story Of the ceremony is as follows:
 Destroyed by German fury. re- stored by American generosity, 50 reads the Latin inscription which. according to original plans approV- ed at the time they were made by Cardinal Mercler. was to have ap- peared on the monumental balcony or balustrade. crowning the facade of the magnificent new library erect cd by the United States of America at the University of Louvain.
 Opponents of this inscription, headed by Monseigneur Ladeuze. rector of the university. succeeded in preventing the placing of this ln- scription. with the result that the substitute balustrade has been more than once demolished and the dedi- cation of the building on July { last was, not seriously, but rather pic- turesquely interrupted by z demon- straticn on behalf of the eminent American architect. Whitney War ren, t0 whose genius the handsome new ediflce is due.
 "The library building is in the style of the Flemish Renaissance. The names of the American indlvid- uals. schools, colleges and univer- s,tjes that contributed funds for lts erection appear in inscriptions m the huge loggia that runs across the front of the building, in the two courts, and on the outside walls on all four sides. The name of 'Irln- ity College in Hartford. Connecticut appears on the outside wall on the
 Rue de LAigle, the street to the lef'
 of the building.
 Louyain Does Not Forget
 "The little city of Louvain Is full
 of reminders of that terrible 25tf
 day of August. 1914, when it wal
 methodically burned by the German
 army, Each of the buildings on tn main street leading from the station has cut into the stone of its facad'
 the image of sword and flame The university building in which tn
 delegates to the dedication of the Ii brary assembled on July 4th bears large inscription to the effect that had been destroyed by the German . armies. In fact this was the yer library building that housed 300.co IJolumes, 900 incunabala and hun dreds of manuscripts. whose los
 cannot be made. good. even D
 American generosity.
 "The events of the dedication c : the new library on July 4. which : attended as a delegate of Trinit
 college, were picturesque to the eA
 treme. No other academic proces sion was just like the one tha
 vended it's way from the old librar ' building. Preceded by four trun ', peters in mediaeval costume, and D
 representatives of the fraternities the university of Iouvain follo"ln !. their huge massed banners. and 10 S lowed by the faculty of the uniVel
 sitv. the foreign delegates wake :. through the still narrow. clrcultol j streets of Louya!n, between lines
 school children and citizens to
 large rectangular square called 1T
 Place Du Feuple. across one emu
 end of which stands this splend ' huiIdjng that we, the schools, 70 U lnges and universities of Amerlc n gave.
 = Delegates and guests were masse
 on two sides of large enclosure o
 cunying most of the Place du Peup'
 The end farthest from the llpra' 7 was occupied by a covered platfor on which were seated the youl
 Crown Prince Leupold and his VII 's Princess Astrid, the American mi ister to Belgium, Mir. Gibson: Card ', nal Van Roey. the successor Cardinal Mercier as Archbishop
 Malines, and other lesser dignitarit
 A program of addresses, made auG ble to all by loud speaker plac' '' high in the tower of the library. W s' varied by the singing of songs by " school children of the town. r' Demonstration As Gibson Speak III MT Gibson's address was inte is rupted for several minutes Wh R. some marifestants broke the come al tion with the loud speaker. TT ny was the signal for a small demo s- stration at the further end of | h' rlace. accompanied by shouts Fd 'Au Bacon. Au Bacon, which ma he the spectators think for nome
 that they were about 10 witness q
 other attack on the bal allstrade.
 about the same time an alrpla few overhead dropping blue stri l., -irNf fnI