Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1916 — NOTRE DAME IS 75 YEARS OLD [ARTICLE]

NOTRE DAME IS 75 YEARS OLD

South Bend, November 25.—Sunday will mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Notre Dame university. It was just sev-enty-five yearg ago that Father Edward Sorin, C. S. C., and seven religious brothers, among them Brother Lawrence, for thirty years director of the business affairs of the university, came to So. Bend. This is the diamond jubilee year at the university and execises commemorating the founding of the institution will he observed during the year. The formal commemorative exercises will be held toward the close of the collegiate year. The little party reached South Bend after ten days’ march in weather so intensely cold they could advance but five miles each day. They reached South Bend at length and immediately set upon plans of erecting a college in the wi'derness.