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Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895
1866
pg 499       resulting from a state of expectancy:  expectation that the 
             decrees of the chapter be approved by Rome; expectation of the new 
             General; expectation of the Rules as revised by order of the 
             General Chapter, which could not be distributed before the arrival 
             of the new General.  But if in the Province of the United States 
             there was not much enterprise, there were at least patience and 
             peace.
                  The novitiate of the priests needed repairs.  It was closed 
             this year.  When all had been brought to a state, not only 
             passable, but even more satisfactorily and comfortable than it had 
             ever been, the Rev. F. James Dillon, elected Master of Salvatorist 
             novices by the Provincial Chapter, took possession towards the end 
             of August with six excellent novices, all chosen from amongst the 
*See p. 357  pupils of the University.  The novices have no longer anything to 
of original  do with the * college.


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