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

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1860

pg 400       Provincial house.  Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Toledo, 
             Columbus, Zanesville, were beginning to have the spirit of regular 
             foundations, with good prospects for the future.
                  Chicago was still under the painful yoke of pecuniary 
             difficulties; its debts had even increased considerably, and yet 
             its actual state gave more satisfaction and more promise for the 
             future.  The college had as many as one hundred and twenty-five 
             day-scholars, and the parish schools were in better condition than 
             ever as regards numbers; for as to the buildings, they were the 
             same rookeries as ever.
                  The select school of the Sisters had also grown 
             satisfactorily, containing seventy-five young ladies, that is to 
             say, one third more than any other school of the kind in the city.
             The two parish schools which the Sisters taught, at the cathedral 
             and at St. Joseph's church, were flourishing and in good repute.
                  St. Joseph's parish itself, after having threatened to give 
             trouble, did not break the peace and was established on a more