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

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1860

pg 404       of spring water, on the banks of which, to the East, the 
             University of Notre Dame is built.  It has today the appearance of 
             a most agreeable and most romantic little village.
                  The principal buildings are the University and its church, 
             the novitiates of the Salvatorists and of the Josephites, the 
             workshops, the farm-house, etc.; then to the rest of the college 
             is the infirmary, the kitchen, and the Sisters' house, all of 
             brick except the workshops, and all comparatively new.
                  The number of entries this year was two hundred and twenty-
             four.  Each year shows an advance on its predecessor, not only in 
             the increased number of pupils, but in the more elevated tone of 
             the studies.  Thus the classical course was one third [larger] 
             than in 1858-59.  The University as such enjoys at present a 
             reputation more flattering and more encouraging than ever.  But it 
             still has pressing needs, for instance, classes [class-rooms?] and 
             an observatory.  It can accomodate and probably will have two 
             hundred boarders this year.