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10 posts tagged "Fr. Sorin"

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Stop South Bend slander

Gracie Eppler | Thursday, March 2, 2023

Corn, soy, cows, semi-trucks. Corn, soy… oh, and occasionally, more corn.  This describes the grey and unstimulating drive across America’s heartlands that I took this weekend as I made the trek from South Bend down to Urbana-Champaign to visit a friend. Flat, dry and littered with the occasional gas-station-McDonald’s crossover, the drive made me reaffirm

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Sorin College welcomes students back following year-long renovation

Lilyann Gardner | Thursday, September 1, 2022

Sorin College, built in 1888 and named after Fr. Edward Sorin, C.S.C, finally welcomed new and returning students back inside its walls this August after fourteen months of extensive renovations.  Sorin residents spent the last school year living in Zahm House while construction crews built a new addition on the West Courtyard. This expansion of

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130 years of Notre Dame: Thomas Blantz, Edward ‘Monk’ Malloy speak on University history

Simon Vogel | Thursday, November 11, 2021

As part of the Notre Dame Book Festival, Notre Dame University Press hosted an informal question and answer session with Fr. Thomas Blantz and former University President Fr. Edward “Monk” Malloy in the Hesburgh Library Scholars Lounge Wednesday evening. Malloy’s memoir, titled “Monk’s Notre Dame,” was published in 2005 and recounts his relationship with Notre

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History of the Columbus murals

Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 12, 2019

To the Editor of The Observer: The decision by Fr. John Jenkins, President of the University of Notre Dame, to cover the Columbus Murals in the Main Building is both shocking and appalling. I applaud the Wall Street Journal piece by Mr. Bermudez, a Peruvian-American Catholic, for pointing out a number of profound truths: “the facts

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Students finish second at Disney Imagineering competition

Megan Valley | Monday, February 13, 2017

Last semester, seniors Mark Davidson, Jessica Klouda and Erin Rice and graduate student Madeline Zupan registered for design professor Scott Shim’s interdisciplinary Collaborative Product Development course, where they were randomly assigned as a group for the semester’s project. The four students were runners up in the Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition on Jan. 27.  (Editor’s

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University announces ‘Notre Dame Trail’ to celebrate 175th anniversary

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, October 5, 2016

In November 1842, Fr. Edward Sorin journeyed approximately 300 miles on foot from Vincennes, Indiana, to found the University on a piece of land next to a snow-covered lake. This August, the University will sponsor a pilgrimage retracing Sorin’s footsteps to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Notre Dame’s founding, University president Fr. John Jenkins announced

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Choirs, orchestra prepare for Beethoven festival

Wei Lin | Thursday, November 20, 2014

The Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra and numerous Notre Dame choral groups will perform at the Beethoven Festival tonight at 8 p.m. in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center as part of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Fr. Edward Sorin’s birthday. The Notre Dame Glee Club along with the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir, Notre Dame Women’s

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Lecture features Jesuit history

Annmarie Soller | Wednesday, September 17, 2014

John T. McGreevy, dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history, presented the Cushwa Center Lecture as part of a yearlong celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Fr. Edward Sorin, founder of the University. The lecture, titled “The Jesuits, Father Sorin, and the 19th-Century Catholic Revival,” focused on the Jesuit

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Archivist shares anecdotes from founder’s life

Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 13, 2014

Despite the University’s continuing fanfare in honor of his 200th birthday, which took place Feb. 6, Notre Dame’s founder, Fr. Edward Sorin, discouraged the celebration of his birthday in favor of Founder’s Day, the Oct. 13 feast day of his namesake St. Edward. Peter Lysy, archivist for the University’s records, said this preference reflects French

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Notre Dame launches year-long commemoration of Fr. Sorin’s bicentennial

Ann Marie Jakubowski | Thursday, February 13, 2014

Fr. Edward Sorin’s legacy at Notre Dame is so profound that his 200th birthday celebration will last right up until the day he would have turned 201. On Feb. 6, the University launched a year-long celebration of its founder, with a Mass celebrated in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and 19th-century French cuisine served

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