Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1920 — Unfortunate Louvain. [ARTICLE]

Unfortunate Louvain.

The city of Louvain, Belgium, has been called the “Oxford of the Low Countries.” It has been said that the City’s chief product once was theology, and that it had a tremendous effect upon philosophic and religious thought. The Louvain library once contained some-TO.OOO volumes and about 500 manuscripts, and was attached to the University of Louvain, founded in 1426. Before the world war the university had 2,000 students, but b? enrollment exceeded 6,000 in the sixteenth century, ’’says a bulletin of the National Geographic society.