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

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1859

pg 369       complaint either of the college or of the schools of the Brothers 
             or the Sisters.  On the contrary, he spoke of the society only to 
             praise it and he wrote of it in the same strain until his 
             departure for Europe.
                  More than once, by word of mouth and by writing, F. Sorin 
             reminded him of his promise to build new school houses, but he 
             always answered that he was obliged to defer this expense, however 
             pressing he himself considered it.  Yet such was the deplorable 
             condition of those poor rookeries in which the schools of the 
             Brothers and the Sisters were taught that it was out of the 
             question to expect any but the children of destitute families, 
             especially when the free schools of the city were provided with 
             magnificent buildings in which nothing was wanting.
                  Moreover, the Brothers and the Sisters as well as their 
             children had to suffer from the negligence or the poverty of the 
             carriers who often left them in midwinter without wood or coal, 
             etc.
                  When at the beginning of September 1857 the Very Rev. F. 
             Moreau, founder of the Order, made his visit to the establishment