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

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1853

pg 181            Although the separation was thus far known only by the 
             members of the Chapter, F. Chappe did not fail to see the 
             difficulties in the way of bringing back the Lake and Bertrand to 
             the conditions of submission required by Sainte Croix.
                  He saw in all the members perfect unity of views, 
             convictions, determination, and at the same time individual 
             liberty.  The administration, which he had never suspected to be 
             any other than F. Sorin's, presented to him, in spite of his old 
             prejudices, the evidence of a council of administration acting 
             according to rule by the majority of votes.  It was not 
             consequently a single man that had to be taken into consideration, 
             since up to this time it was the Chapter that had discussed and 
             adopted every serious measure in the government of the Work.
                  On the other hand, all that he had learned of Notre Dame du 
             Lac seemed to him to fall short of what he himself saw with his 
             'own' eyes.  The college had just received a considerable 
             increase.  A written promise of one of the young Fathers of the 
             house to pay ten thousand dollars in a year had permitted the 
             adding of two wings to the main building, and thus there would be 
             room for two hundred and fifty boarders; a large building was at