LOUVAIN LIBRARY DRIVE OPENS AT UNION MEETING

"Here is a real opportunity for the scholastic world of this country to combine and offer this monument to their elder sister in distress. Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Amherst have come through splendidly. Let not Harvard fall down with her share". Thus Mr. Whitney Warren, architect of the new Memorial and speaker at the Union last night, characterized the importance of the University's Louvain Library fund drive which starts today.

"We want every stone of the new building", he continued, "to mean something. And it will, if the student body throughout this country gets behind the movement and erects this memorial not only as a testimonial of the gratitude which we of this country feel toward Belgium, but also as a memorial to those Americans who gave their lives in the World War". He stressed the importance of the fact that Harvard, through its prominence among the colleges and schools of the country, will greatly determine whether the undertaking will succeed or not, since other institutions will follow, at least in part, whatever example is set here.

Telegram From Belgian Ambassador

Professor J. L. Lowes, before introducing Mr. Warren, read the following telegram received by President Lowell today from Baron de Cartier de Marchienne. Belgian Ambassador to the United States: "Allow me to avail myself of this opportunity to fender my best personal thanks for your sympathetic attitude to our efforts to rebuild Louvain University Library. It is a source of deep gratification to me that Harvard University, the fountain of all spiritual life in this great country, is taking active sympathy in the worthy cause of helping Belgium's oldest alma mater to rise Phoenix-like from its ashes".

Dean G. H. Edgell spoke briefly on the prominent position which Louvain University, since its founding in 1425, has held in the European scholastic world.

The collectors for the University's Louvain drive will begin work this morning. The committee's instructions, which were sent out last night, were based on their slogan. "Everybody one dollar and no more." Collectors are to turn in their report of the first day's canvassing to Chairman C. D. Whidden '28 at the Crimson Building between 8 and 5 o'clock this afternoon. The committee urges that all men who have paid wear the red Louvain tag which will be given them at the time the collection is made.