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

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1866

pg 498            On his return to the States at the beginning of October he 
             proceeded to Baltimore to assist at the National Council to which 
             he had been invited by Mgr. Spalding, and this delayed his return 
             to Notre Dame till the 21st of the same month.
                  The scholastic year was already well under way, nearly three 
             hundred and fifty boarders had entered, and everything promised a 
             most successful year.  However, as soon as he learned of the 
             reduction of fifty dollars that it had been deemed expedient to 
             make in the former cost of board, he felt that the profits would 
             not correspond to the number, and he expressed fears to the 
             administration.  But it was a time for misfortune that could not 
             be helped.  The books showed a loss, a real deficit of $10,000 at 
             the end of the session.  After such an experience, he insisted on 
             having the former charges restored, which was done at the return 
             of the pupils in September 1867.
                  This year 1866-67 was necessarily affected by the inaction