Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — A Great University. [ARTICLE]

A Great University.

The University of Strasburg is a splendid educational institution. It was founded in 1557 and reorganized in 1871. Since the reorganization over $3,500,000 has been expended for new buildings, etc., and there is a yearly appropriation of nearly $250,000 for its support. Its new edifices are a series of magnificent palaces, and its library contains 560,000 volumes. No other institution in Europe has so rich a provision for higher education. There are seventy-three ordinary and nineteen special professors. The students last year numbered 858.