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

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1861

pg 417            As has been said, the Congregation by its contract was only 
             bound to keep a respectable day-school, without any collegiate 
             course whatsoever.  The better to show his desire of pleasing the 
             Bishop, F. Sorin then promised to neglect nothing to keep up 
             classes of Greek and Latin, French and German, mathematics and 
             vocal and instrumental music, etc., and this he continued to do, 
             employing men of ability at considerable cost.
                  By the advice of the Archbishop of Baltimore the Congregation 
             had promised to settle the arrears of rent for the three past 
             years, as soon as any profits came in, which did not seem to be an 
             unlikely or remote possibility, owing to the confidence inspired 
             by the declared and efficacious protection of the Bishop.  On his 
             part, the Bishop had promised that he would in writing give the 
             Congregation the St. Joseph's German church, on the same 
             conditions on which he had ceded St. Michael's to the Redemptorist 
             Fathers.  And when later some members of this congregation tried