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

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1861

pg 444       the ostensible object of the complaints of Notre Dame du Lac from 
             the month of May to the end of this year, it nevertheless appears 
             probable that they would have had no importance if his superiors 
             had been better disposed towards Notre Dame.
                  St. Laurent has for a number of years shown feelings of a 
             kind of envy, sometimes thinly disguised, which have never allowed 
             the administration of Notre Dame to be on terms of cordiality in 
             matters that would be for their common good.  Bro. Amedee, who, 
             perhaps without suspecting it, is a fire-brand of discord and does 
             not know how to live in peace with anyone, profited of this 
             weakness to turn to the annoyance of the Providence that he had 
             deserted, all the projects for the grandeur of St. Laurent, which 
             he wished at any cost to see take the first place, were it only to 
             justify the preference that he had shown for it.  Hence the 
             pompous announcements of foundations applied for and made in the 
             United States.  To believe him, Canada was going to sweep all 
             before it, and Notre Dame would soon be only a secondary concern.