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

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1866

pg 501            Since the return of F. Sorin, the community has gained in its 
             religious life by its more complete separation from the college.  
             It has passed the year in this happy separation, occupying alone 
             the two lower stories of the infirmary.  At the last reopening of 
             the school it changed the first story with the minims, nor did it 
             suffer much from isolation.
                  The missions have equally been making progress.  Cincinnati 
             has made the acquisition of a respectable house for the sum of 
             $8,000, which the establishment will pay by degrees.  Besides, St. 
             Philemon's school has been taken again, so that fourteen teaching 
             Brothers reside there this year, each at the head of a large class 
             of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty scholars.
                  Fort Wayne is likely to have a footing of its own for the 
             Congregation.  The four Brothers who conduct this school are doing 
             well and are very happy.
                  Four other Brothers are established by an ancient 
             authorization in Lafayette, where by mutual agreement they are to 
             build on their own ground at the charge of the pastor, a house to