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

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1858

pg 329       was found necessary to put a number of the Brothers at work that 
             were better calculated to pay expenses.  Hence Brothers were 
             taught to be farmers, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, 
             blacksmiths, bakers, coopers, gardeners.  And when a college was 
             started wherein all these branches of industry could be utilized, 
             another colony of Brothers had to be organized to do the work of 
             the college.
                  Meanwhile the business of teaching was never lost sight of.  
             Whenever a candidate presented himself in the institution who had 
             the talents necessary for a teacher, he was put to study.
                  Once more we say, a work of this kind was very difficult.  
             Time was required to lay the foundations before thinking of 
             building the edifice.  This work is now founded, and if heaven 
             continues to bless it, it is ready for development.  God be 
             blessed for the contradictions it has met with!
                  2.  As to the immense sums collected on the railroad, etc. 
             there is a reason to be surprised that this assertion or complaint 
             was seriously made.  Here again figures will answer for us.  F. 
             Sorin himself has taken the trouble to make an abstract, page by 
             page, of each dollar and cent handed in by the missioners of the