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

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1860

pg 406       as a matter of course draw some recruits every year for its 
             novitiate.  It is thus that two thirds of those that compose it 
             today have entered, and it was never in better condition.  There 
             are at present a dozen novices who are all choice and promising 
             young men.
                  In front of St. Aloysius's novitiate and close to it is that 
             of the Brothers, recently built on the site of its predecessor, 
             and larger than it by one half.  It has at present some fifty 
             novices and postulants.  It is the only house at Notre Dame where 
             the Brothers are represented by themselves, and in a manner 
             somewhat worthy.  The St. Joseph's novitiate is built on a 
             charming little island which forms a considerable elevation 
             between the two lakes.  It is the most beautiful spot of the whole 
             property, and in a short time, when the plan shall have been fully 
             carried out, it will be really charming.
                  There also the Josephites, as well as the Salvatorists, will 
             have in time a foundation to be envied, an existence less 
             precarious, perhaps, than anywhere else.  East of their novitiate