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

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1860

pg 408                                  Dependencies

                  The Congregation having of its own accord given up all its 
             missions except those of Lowell and of South Bend, which are at 
             the very doors of Notre Dame and which are attended to by the Rev. 
             F. Excel and the Rev. F. Carroll, the consequence is that all of 
             its efforts and directed to one only object--education.  In 
             Chicago, eighty-six miles west of Notre Dame, it has a University 
             and four parish schools where fifteen members are at work.
                  The University of St. Mary of the Lake was delivered over to 
             it by special contract in 1857, at an annual rental of $2000.  
             This contract, entered into when times were better, was not one of 
             the most advantageous, since thus far it has brought in nothing, 
             and the time of fifteen religious has been absorbed in it without 
             compensation, leaving contrariwise a deficit of $2000.  But 
             indirectly, by the influx from the West that it has caused to 
             Notre Dame, it was not a loss, and just now there is reason to 
             hope that it may turn to the benefit of the Society.  Last year 
             there were one hundred and twenty-five day-scholars.