ALUMNI ARE APPROACHED FOR LOUVAIN CONTRIBUTIONS

College alumni are being urged to contribute to the fund for the reconstruction of the Library of Louvain University now being raised by American schools, colleges, and universities. The offer to reconstruct the library destroyed by the Germans in 1914 was made to Cardinal Mercier in 1919 when he visited America.

Since the first appeal for funds was made a total of nearly $400,000 has been received by the committee in charge but for the lack of the remaining $600,000 of the proposed fund reconstruction work on the library has been suspended. As the tenth anniversary of the destruction of Louvain approaches a special effort is being made to complete the fund. Harvard alumni have already contributed to the fund over .$30,000 in amounts from $l.OO up and indicated the important part that alumni of other institutions may take in realizing the project proposed five years ago.