There are many
great laboratories and academic buildings upon that high shore at present,
but a score more are in prospect for this mighty democratic university of
letters and science, law and medicine, that will house in other centuries
perhaps not merely the appeased spirit of the Mississippi but such
learning as is in Paris or was in Padua, whose saint is still remembered
by the falls; for the university has the necessary means. When the Eglise
of the Sorbonne, which Richelieu had consecrated, was being built, the
French priests out along the shores of Superior were preparing the way for
this new-world university. Certain lands in that iron region which they
first explored were given by the nation as dowry to the university. These
were not thought to be valuable, as at the time of the grant the most
valuable timber and farming land had been sold. Fifteen years ago, more or
less, a train-load of iron ore was brought down from that region to
Allouez, a town on the lake named in memory of the priest of St.
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