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

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1859

pg 374       with the Congregation to retain the college on the condition of 
             paying the rent in the precise terms of the contract, or of giving 
             it up as it was.
                  F. Sorin begged the Bishop to bear in mind that the 
             Congregation could not thus, either in honor or justice or 
             according to the constitutions, abandon the establishment, and 
             that it was obliged to retain it.  The question seemed to be 
             settled, and for about two months nothing more was said of it.
                  About the middle of June the rumor became current once more 
             that the Bishop was going to take back the college; the Rev. F. 
             Sorin went once more to Chicago, visited the Bishop, and learned 
             from his own lips that he was really determined to carry out his 
             first idea, and he left no choice, saying that Mgr. O'Regan had no 
             right thus to alienate this property, and he said other things 
             more or less surprising and painful to listen to.
                  The Rev. F. Sorin then proposed that in case of retiring from 
             the college, select schools should be established in different 
             parts of the city for the Brothers and the Sisters.  The Bishop