1 Scholastic, IV (January 14, 1871), 3. This information was supplied to the school magazine by an old student, unnamed, who was in attendance there around 1845 or 1846.
4 Extract from the deliberations of the General Council at Notre Dame de Ste. Croix, August 27, 1845, UNDA; "Chronicles," pp. 78-79.
6 Ibid., p. 80. A note added in the margin of this manuscript says that the barn continued in use until 1896.
8 Extract from the deliberations of the General Council at Notre Dame de Ste. Croix, August 27, 1845, UNDA.
13 Joseph A. Lyons, A Silver Jubilee of the University of Notre Dame (Chicago: 1869), 2nd edition, p. 32. Hereafter cited: Silver Jubilee.
14 This account is taken from a description of Notre Dame in the fall of 1845 as recollected some fifty years later by a former student who had arrived at Notre Dame on November 11, 1845; cf. Golden Jubilee, pp. 68-73. This was almost certainly Louis Letourneau, who had arrived at Notre Dame at that time. Cf. Louis Letourneau to his parents, November 18, 1845, UNDA.
15 Boarders' Ledger No. 2, 1849-1852, UNDA.
16 Louis Letourneau to his parents, November 18, 1845, UNDA.
17 Ibid.,; Register of the Council of the Prefect of Discipline, 1844-1847, UNDA.
18 C. of Prof., 1844-46, Later in the year a Mr. St. Marc, also a seminarian, was teaching there. Cf. Louis Letourneau to his parents, May 13, 1846, UNDA.
19 Golden Jubilee, p. 72. The records show that the students spent considerable time studying music.
20Catholic Almanac for 1846, p. 122.
21See Ibid., in succeeding years.
23 C. of Prof., 1844-46, entry of November 5, 1845, UNDA.
24 Ibid., entry of December 3, 1845. This ruling raises inescapable visions of a student stalking game being in turn stalked by a Brother Proctor.
27 Ledger A, UNDA, lists the total receipts from Louisville at $6,948. The ledger also lists one large sum which was paid out immediately thereafter: $1000 was paid to Mr. M. R. Keegan of Bertrand, possibly in payment for land for the Sisters there. The account book does not indicate the purpose for which the money from the Badin lots was spent. Probably some of it went to pay off bank loans and some to pay Mr. Byerley.
29 The Rush farm was not purchased by the college until early in 1854. Cf. ibid., pp. 212-215.
31 Catta, op. cit., I, 535-542.
32 "Chronicles," pp. 72-73. When de la Hailandiere indicated that he did not want the community of Sisters to reside in his Diocese, especially so close to Notre Dame du Lac, Sorin circumvented his order by appealing to the Bishop of Detroit, who allowed them to come to his Diocese where they were only five or six miles from Notre Dame. Cf. ibid.
33 Catta, op. cit., I, 536; "Chronicles," p. 99; Extract from the deliberations of the General Chapter at Notre Dame de Ste. Croix, August 27, 1845, UNDA. This 375 acres was the additional land which Father Bach had acquired from Father Badin back in 1840. Supra, pp. 39-40.
34 The Cattas, despite their disapproval of Sorin's methods, support this view that Sorin had national ambitions for his educational system. Catta, op. cit., I, 538, 542.
36 Catta, op. cit., I, 540, gives an example of this.
38 See, for example, de la Hailandiere to Moreau, March 23, 1845, as quoted in ibid., I, 539.
41 A manuscript biography of Father Baroux is in UNDA, an interesting account of his labors among the American Indians in Michigan and the true Indians in Bengal. There is no mention of the reason behind the replacement of Father Marivault; it is assumed that he left the community at this time.
42 "Chronicles," p. 98; Granger, "Obituary . . . of the Province," (1844-1879), UNDA.
43 Catta, op. cit., I, 544-545.
47 The date of the last meeting of the General Chapter was June 1, 1846 (Catta, op. cit., I, 546) and Badin's letter to Moreau was dated May 10, 1846 (ibid., I, 543). It is hardly possible that this letter arrived at LeMans before the 1st of June.
48 In an answer to a request for a loan, Father Julian Benoit wrote to the members of the community at Notre Dame du Lac that he was unable to aid them because he owed $2500 himself. This letter was written on April 10, 1846, just one month before Badin wrote his letter. Benoit to the Community at Notre Dame, Fort Wayne, April 10, 1846. UNDA.
49 Badin to Moreau, May 10, 1846, as quoted in Catta, op. cit., I, 543.
50 Sorin to Badin, undated, as quoted in ibid., I, 544.
51 "Chronicles," pp. 86, 93-94.
52 C. of Prof., 1844-46, entry of February 18, 1846, UNDA.
53 Register of the Council of the Prefect of Discipline, 1844-47, UNDA.
55 Louis Letourneau to his parents, Notre Dame du Lac, May 13, 1846, UNDA.
56 Louis Letourneau indicates that there was quite a bit of scholarly activity -- a new art instructor, a new bookkeeping course, more extensive work in Greek, and the formation of a Debating Society and a French Society. Ibid.
57 C. of Prof., 1846-47, June 3, 1846, UNDA.
58 Scholastic, IV (January 14, 1871), 3.
60 C. of Prof., 1846-47, entry of April 15, 1846, UNDA.
63 Granger, "Obituary . . . of the Province," UNDA.
64 Louis Letourneau to his parents, Notre Dame, October 8, 1846, UNDA.
65 C. of Prof., 1846-47, entry of August 4, 1846, UNDA.
66 Supra, p. 9.
67 Rev. Michael E. Shawe to Fr. Sorin, Vincennes, July 24, 1843, UNDA.
68 M. R. Keegan as quoted in Golden Jubilee, p. 66.
69 Rev. M. E. Shawe to Fr. Sorin, St. F. Xavier College, (Cincinnati), March 4, 1846, UNDA.
70 Louis Letourneau to his parents, June 8, 1846, UNDA.
71 Richard H. Elliot, "Soldier-Knight-Missionary, St. Michael Edgar Evelyn Shawe," American Catholic Historical Researches, XIV (1897), 50-61.
72 Golden Jubilee, p. 63; Silver Jubilee, p. 37; C. of Prof., 1846-47, entry of August 1, 1816, UNDA. He is sometimes refered to as the Reverend St. Michael E. E. Shawe, but he usually signed himself as Reverend Michael E. Shawe.
73 Silver Jubilee, p. 37; Elliot, loc. cit., XIV, 50-61
74 C. of Prof., 1846-1847, UNDA.
75 Shawe went to Detroit with Bishop Lefevre in 1848, and he died in that city on May 10, 1853. Catholic Almanac for 1854, p. 269.