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

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1859

pg 381       the school-houses where our teachers were obliged to teach from 
             the beginning, and also the circumstances of the parents whose 
             children they were to receive, and then the blame will not fall on 
             them, but instead of being blamed they will be pitied.  The Rev. 
             Mr. Dunn, who has always had the largest number of Brothers and 
             the most numerously attended school, told me some weeks ago that 
             he was pleased with the Brothers and that he never had any fault 
             to find with them.
                  7.  The great reason that seems to make our withdrawal a 
             necessity, is your displeasure, ever on the increase, because Mgr. 
             O'Regan had thus disposed of the college, etc; but to what extent 
             this your regret constitutes a right to take it back, is a point 
             that does not easily ally itself to the mere rudimental idea of 
             contracts.
                  8.  Frequently repeated declaration of Your Lordship that you 
             are not bound by any promise of your predecessor, and that if you 
             could find in the writing of the lease any legal subterfuge to 
             evade it, you would unhesitatingly avail yourself of it--is 
             something that I cannot understand.