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

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1859

pg 359       spirit that prevailed in the college at the end of the year and 
             which presaged well for the opening in the month of September 
             following.
                  About the middle of the year the pupils had organized a 
             military company, the members of which, thirty-seven in number, 
             adopted a very graceful uniform.  This company, even till the very 
             last day bore itself most honorably and added much to all the 
             celebrations at the end of the year.
                  The novitiate of the Brothers had never yet been filled with 
             such a large number of postulants; at the annual retreat there 
             were twenty-one.  The house was crowded.  The old novitiate had 
             been torn down and a new one was going up on a somewhat larger 
             scale.  Five thousand francs had been allowed for this new 
             building, which was put up by the workmen of the Congregation--the 
             Brothers.
                  The wheat this year, without being a very large crop, was 
             better than last year.  There were two thousand five hundred 
             bushels, or about one half of what would be consumed in a year.