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

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1861

pg 458       months--an excellent means of obtaining without trouble a 
             considerable sum total and of compelling each director to practise 
             economy, so that he may be able to pay his bills when they fall 
             due.
                  2.  In order to employ fewer professors, the novices of the 
             two novitiates follow the courses of the university, which are 
             more thorough than ever and in which they make more progress 
             without causing any trouble--and this plan is to be kept up in 
             future.
                  3.  Finally this same difficulty of the times has compelled 
             everyone to look more carefully to the observance of strict 
             economy, and if there has been suffering in one sense, there has 
             been gain in another:  the morale of the institute has been the 
             gainer, and that is the main point.