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

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1859

pg 388            3.  In the present case, the desire of the Bishop to reenter 
             into possession of the college required the departure of the whole 
             community, since if any member of it remained in the city, he 
             would be considered merely as an agent of the Society of Notre 
             Dame, to the detriment of the college in Chicago.
                  It is useless to answer what must have been brought forward 
             to justify the measure:  that the members of Holy Cross were 
             incapable.  They were always able for the class of students that 
             frequented their dilapidated schools.  Who could reasonably demand 
             that the Congregation sacrifice its best subjects where there was 
             no encouragement and no prospect of success?  During the first 
             year Bishop O'Regan, whilst showing himself the protector of the 
             society, only made promises; the second year was that of the 
             vacancy of the See, when the Congregation did not receive the 
             least help, the third year was still worse, since from the 
             beginning Bishop Duggan himself declared his intention to resume 
             possession, and the more surely to succeed in this, he refrained