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Mar 17, 2021 | 07:24 AM EDT
Hope you brought your thinking caps today. We have a lot to cover and only a few hours to do it. When I say move .. Helmets, flak jackets, gas masks on the hip, and two sources of water. Prepare for weather. Squad leaders, let me know when your people are good to go. Now, move.
Tuesday
Congratulations. Door number one? You re all one day closer to being completely forgotten by history. Door number two. Today is just the first day of the rest of your life. Perspective? Your choice. I ll go with door number two. This way, I still haven t hit potential.
The University of Notre Dame: A History
Thomas E. Blantz
Thomas Blantz’s monumental The University of Notre Dame: A History tells the story of the renowned Catholic university’s growth and development from a primitive grade school and high school founded in 1842 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in the wilds of northern Indiana to the acclaimed undergraduate and research institution it became by the early twenty-first century. Its growth was not always smooth slowed at times by wars, financial challenges, fires, and illnesses. It is the story both of a successful institution and of the men and women who made it so: Father Edward Sorin, the twenty-eight-year-old French priest and visionary founder; Father William Corby, later two-term Notre Dame president, who gave absolution to the soldiers of the Irish Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg; the hundreds of Holy Cross brothers, sisters, and priests whose faithful service in classrooms, student residence halls, and across campus
Waking up the echoes
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
On Saturday, Notre Dame and Clemson play for the Atlantic Coast Conference football championship. The widely anticipated rematch of Notre Dame s Nov. 7 overtime win over Clemson prods fans, once again, to speculate “whether the Irish are back” – to the days of Lou Holtz, Dan Devine, Ara Parseghian, Frank Leahy and, of course, Knute Rockne.
Few universities garner the following Notre Dame enjoys. Why the South Bend university s mystique appeals to so many individuals, however, is woven into historical details rarely appreciated. To this end (and perhaps for the “Domer” on your Christmas list), Father Thomas E. Blantz offers “The University of Notre Dame: A History” and Father James T. Connelly offers “The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross.”