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

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1861

pg 426       paralyzed, and in money transactions everybody understood that 
             patience towards a debtor had become a necessity.  In such a state 
             of things no one would think that a Bishop would avail himself of 
             the physical inability of a Congregation which was sacrificing 
             itself under his very eyes, to declare to it that since it did 
             not pay, it must leave the city, otherwise he would take legal 
             measures to have an ejectment in form.  Let us quote his very 
             words.
                  F. Sorin presented himself to offer his respects to the 
             Bishop, but the latter being absent, he deputed the superior of 
             Notre Dame du Lac, who was acquainted with him, to learn from his 
             own lips what credit was to be given to the rumor that was abroad 
             that he intended to take back the college.  The Bishop confirmed 
             the rumor, adding that he expected all the members gone before the 
             1st of August.  F. Superior being very much surprised at such an 
             arbitrary command, wished to know the cause; but none was assigned 
             except that of the poet:  Sic volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione 
             voluntas.
                  For an hour and a half the same Father continued to set