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

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1855

pg 228       to project 120ft. forward and which is to have a large chapel of 
             80 x 40 ft., with the community house in the rear, was deferred 
             till the following spring.
                  From this time the new Institution became the headquarters of 
             the Sisters of Holy Cross in the United States, not in a transient 
             way, but permanently.  They enjoyed all the advantages they could 
             desire as religious attached to a congregation to which they could 
             render all the services to be expected from this third branch, and 
             from which in return they could obtain all those that they were 
             entitled to by reason of the spiritual and fundamental alliance 
             which the Vicar of Christ was soon to consecrate.
                  The academy was neither too near the college nor too far from 
             it, but at just such a distance as to secure the mutual and daily 
             services of the two houses, without giving use to any 
             inconveniences, not even that of keeping any Sisters at the 
             college but those needed in the kitchen and the infirmary.  A 
             commissioner with a suitable wagon could carry provisions, linen, 
             etc., from one house to the other and he could easily do this in 
             one hour; the visits of the superiors did not require more time