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

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1856

pg 298       thereto any other school for Brothers, Sisters, of trades, a 
             Catholic bookstore, etc.
                  Besides, all the Catholic schools of the city according to 
             the Congregation could take charge of them or as school houses 
             should be built.
                  Finally, the German congregation of St. Joseph pertaining to 
             the college.
                  On the other side:
                  That the Congregation of Holy Cross pledges itself to observe 
             these conditions during the time named.
                  The first years of this establishment cannot be onerous to 
             the Congregation; but afterwards it is more than probably that 
             those advances will be fully refunded.
                  Chicago is the centre of the West.  A house of the society in 
             this city was becoming daily of more importance.  Some other 
             religious community would infallibly establish itself there and 
             would cut off from Notre Dame du Lac its principal resource in the 
             West.  Now Illinois in a special manner seems destined, 
             considering its proximity and its Catholic population, to become