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

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1860

pg 403       for rent paid in advance, and the following year would have the 
             benefit of saving this expense of $2000 and $3000 in rent--in all 
             $5000.  It was therefore resolved to continue the experiment of 
             this college for another and to abide by the result.
                  At this epoch, when the first General Chapter of the 
             Congregation of Holy Cross was about to open at the Mother House, 
             the foundation of Notre Dame du Lac was entering on the nineteenth 
             year of its existence.  The following lines give a faithful 
             statement of its present condition.
                  Notre Dame has been known for some years past as one of the 
             leading Catholic institutions of the West.  It possesses a little 
             domain of seven hundred acres of land on the banks of the St. 
             Joseph river, two miles from South Bend, the county seat of St. 
             Joseph county.  This property contains two little lakes or bodies