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

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1864

pg 484       general comfort, a higher salary for those that were not members 
             of the community, a well established assurance in their minds that 
             the administration esteems them and desires their happiness: in a 
             word, there has been in the faculty everywhere this year more than 
             any other, content and devotedness to the success of the college.
                  2.  Everyone loving his duty and performing it con amore, the 
             progress of the students was the more marked; parents understood 
             this as soon as did the children.
                  3.  The table kept pace with the times; nothing was lacking 
             nor were any complaints made.  The good Sisters who devoted 
             themselves to providing, three times a day, not merely for three 
             hundred and sixty pupils, but for nearly six hundred persons, 
             deserve all praise; for it was no easy task to please such a 
             family with the imperfect means at their command.  But that 
             devotedness which is the fundamental characteristic of those good 
             daughters of Holy Cross makes up for all else.