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T U . - f ' ' . . , ... u ll gilg gi- ui f ' 9 .ills - 1 i 1 inn l Q4 ifigi 8 . ' THE GROWTH OF NUTRE DAME .-sg 4 . 'ii Q i v HEN the din of Civil VVar had been ultimately silenced LR- and the period of reconstruction emphatically begun, 'eq Q young America turned with the entire wealth of her ardent spirit to the education of her citizens. Institu- tions both public and private sprang up in all states. -A Catholicism and Protestantism vied with each other in establishing gi: schools, academies and colleges. In those days of activity and .. ' progress the various religious 'orders answered the summons to edu- s cation as they had, at an earlier date, heeded the call to the battlefield. if, 4 It was just about this time, too, that the Congregation of Notre ' Dame began its secondary training in the United States. A sultry T summer's day of 1874 marked the arrival of the Sisters in New York. Through the din of a Fourth of July celebration they made their way from New York to Cleveland whither Bishop Gilmour had called them. I'n the early days of settlement many difficulties confronted the sisters, but, never daunted, they met and conquered each obstacle as it came. God was ever with them and blessed the services so gener- ously offered up for His glory. Within four years of their arrival two hundred sisters had been transferred to missions in Ohio and - Kentucky. In 1878 a convent .and academy was erected on Superior Avenue. Many an able business man and woman of Cleveland today T see in retrospect the work of those days by the Sisters of Notre Dame and proudly assert their connections with the institution. The subsequent task of forming a body for that spirit born of a - missionary's desire to ennoble the youth of America is the history 8 of the following years. The next two decades were clouded years u of hardship, it is true, but at the same time a story of spiritual bless- Page Fourteen
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