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

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1859

pg 368       that this sum, for this time only, should be paid him in full in 
             advance, because of urgent needs, saying that nothing more would 
             have to be paid before eighteen months.  Thus far everything 
             passed off agreeably.
                  It was soon discovered that the Congregation had bound itself 
             for more than it had reckoned on.  Instead of $50 which it was 
             said would be sufficient for repairs, it was absolutely necessary 
             to contract at once for $700 for a single article; moreover, the 
             Bishop required the Congregation to take the old furniture of the 
             college, which made an additional sum of $500, including a piano.
                  By the contract the Congregation had bound itself only to 
             maintain in the apartments or on the grounds of the college, not a 
             regular university, but a respectable day school.  Properly 
             speaking, this is all it was the first year, and the Bishop never 
             found fault, nor during the fifteen months that he remained in 
             Chicago from the opening of the school, did Mgr. O'Regan make any