Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1844

pg 66             Before the arrival of the Brothers in the United States, 
             there was no novitiate of religious men of the same kind in the 
             country.  In 1845 the Brothers of the Christian Schools 
             unsuccessfully attempted such an establishment in Baltimore, and 
             in the following year the Brothers of St. Patrick repeated the 
             experiment in the same city and appeared to succeed pretty well.  
             Perhaps to this diversity of attractions may be attributed the 
             diminution of the number of candidates.
Pecuniary         The greater number of those candidates are poor, sometimes 
resources of even carrying all their property on their persons.  Hardly 5000fr. 
candidates.  was brought into the Society by all of them together.  Here, even 
             more than in Europe, those that succeed in making money in the 
             world do not think of giving it up.  It would be better for some 
             years to come to bring young postulants from beyond the sea, who 
             are unacquainted with the spirit and the manners of the 
             Americans.  They will be easily formed, and will offer better 
             assurances of perseverance.