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

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1859

pg 391       city where a few days before it saw no possibility of remaining. 
             Hace mutatio dexterae Excelsi was the thought and the conviction 
             of F. Sorin and of his councilors.  It was a genuine triumph for 
             all the friends of the Society in Chicago.
                  However, new expenses had to be incurred at once to establish 
             the two Societies permanently on the same grounds in a becoming 
             and religious manner.  Ten thousand francs were employed for this 
             purpose in the course of the succeeding five months.  In 
             compensation the two schools took on a new development beyond what 
             they ever had, and by the end of December the college had one 
             hundred and twenty pupils and the Sisters nearly one hundred in 
             their department.
Providence        The affair of the superior, who was suspected of being the 
in the       prime cause of all the trouble, settle itself without any of the 
Departure    vexations which he had imagined would result, and rather to the 
of F. Force  advantage of the Society.  He thought the parishioners of St. 
             Joseph's were attached to him: he had the humiliation of having