Cardinal Mercier has accepted the invitation from President Lowell to visit the University on his forthcoming trip to Boston. The famous prelate will come to Cambridge on the afternoon of Monday, October 6, probably at 3 o'clock or a little later. His Eminence will spend some three hours in inspecting the University.

In his letter accepting President Lowell's invitation, Cardinal Mercier said that he would regard it as an honor to "express his gratitude to the great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library at Louvain.