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

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1861

pg 457       they baptized forty dying soldiers, after having instructed and 
             prepared them all.
                  Never had any circumstance been more favorable to the 
             progress of the Catholic religion.  In the presence of death man 
             reflects.  The devotedness of the missioner and of the good 
             Sisters cannot escape his attention, especially when, in spite of 
             himself, he contrasts it with the coldness and the helplessness of 
             Protestantism.

                                       The University

                  The hard times this year, which caused half the country to 
             close, had so far had no such effect on this institution.  The 
             number of boarders has even exceeded that of last year, owing to 
             its distance from the seat of war.
                  The same unfavorable condition of the times has had several 
             other advantageous results for Notre Dame.
                  1.  It has suggested the plan of taking the bills of each 
             director of an establishment payable in three, six, and nine