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

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1844

pg 69        common education, and it was also required that, when it was 
             possible, the parents or guardians should at the entrance of the 
             child pay the sum of 200fr.
The               The apprentices were are first left with the boarders of the 
apprentices  college, whose number they helped to swell.  The necessity of 
separated    separating them was soon felt, but the resources of the house 
from the     were inadequate to make a complete separation at once, seeing the 
college.     expense that it would cause. It was therefore necessary to keep 
             them together in the college, but without allowing them to have 
             communications together.
                  Except for two hours and a half per day and on Sundays and 
             festivals, the apprentices spend all their time at work in their 
             respective shops, in which some have already made remarkable 
             progress in their trades.  No child is admitted under the age of 
             twelve.  It is wonderful to see what sympathy this establishment 
             has called forth amongst reflecting Catholics.
                  Lately the Brothers of St. Patrick, not long since 
             established at Baltimore, also opened a school of arts and trades 
             after the same plan.  The Bishops of Cincinnati and New York wish