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

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1863

pg 471       with the great reputation of the new academy.  The council hoped 
             that something of the kind would happen for the college, nor was 
             it disappointed.
                  The advantages of this new system were not known until it was 
             in full operation.  Soon afterwards steam was introduced into the 
             kitchen.  It was everywhere considered a blessing, savings on an 
             average twenty to twenty-five dollars a day.  The administration 
             took this occasion to raise the terms for board $20, and no one 
             found fault.
                  Towards the end of the year His Reverence having ordered F. 
             Sorin to protect the Brothers against conscription, the latter 
             sent the original to Mgr. Wood, Bishop of Philadelphia, who 
             exonerated him from all blame, although he expressed his regrets 
             that such were the unhappy consequences of the fratricidal war 
             between the North and the South.
                  The four Brothers in Philadelphia once being withdrawn, it 
             was impossible to continue the three schools, seeing that only