Excerpt from A Brief History of the University of Notre Dame Du Lac, Indiana From 1842 to 1892: Prepared for the Golden Jubilee, to Be Celebrated June 11, 12 and 13, 1895 The little band of seven left the Mother House at Mans, August 5, 1841; and on' the 8th of August they set sail from Havre, on the packet ship Iowa, a large vessel and a good sailer, as Father Sorin describes her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.