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

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1844

pg 70        to have some of our Brothers as soon as possible to open similar 
             institutions in their cities.  God only knows how much good can 
             be done in this manner in those great centres of population.
                  In nearly every large city in the United States there is an 
             orphan asylum, nearly all of which are in charge of the Sisters 
             of Charity.  This is an immense benefit to Catholic children up 
             to the age of twelve or thirteen; but what will then become 
             of them?  Are they ready to enter fearlessly into the world, 
             wherein are so many dangers for their faith and morals?  It is 
             then as a complement of all those pious asylums that this of Notre 
             Dame du Lac was established, so that those children might simply 
             pass from the hands of the Daughters of Charity to those of the 
             Brothers of St. Joseph.
                  There are eighteen of them at present, and if means 
             permitted others to be received, it would be easy to multiply 
             their number.  Except as to classes and studies, the regulations 
             for them are the same as for the students of the college, for 
             rising and retiring, rest and recreation.
                  Those dear children seem to be growing daily more and more 
             contented in a condition which they appreciate more and more in