Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Editorial comment in tbe Yale Courant, to the effect that Sunday services in the University are not what they should be, and that the students are fed on the “dry husks of religious conventionalism, which can hardly be expected to develop a practical and robust Christianity,” has created a sensation among the students and faculty. The total number of students in Harvard University this year is 1,077. The freshman class list bears 279 names, the largest on record. There are twenty-three Illinoisans in the co’lego. .. Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, which was unveiled in the harbor of New York, was presented by the people of France, at a cost of $250,000. A still larger sum, with which to build the pedestal, was raised on this side of the Atlantic, mainly through the efforts of a New York journalist. The electric plant to light the statue was furnished by the Federal Government. The head of the goddess stands three hundred feet above the water. Among those participating in the ceremonies were M. Barthold', Count do Lesseps, President Cleveland and Cabinet, Gen. Sheridan, and the Governors of eight States Ilev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, in a sermon delivered in Boston, condemned the tendency to exclusivenoss manifested at the recent Epic cop 1 Conference in Chicago.