Notre Dame Research Paper

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Notre Dame has been amongst the top colleges since the day it originated on November 26th, 1842. It was started by a French priest Rev. Edward Sorin, and seven of his companions when they bought seven acres in the Indiana mission fields. When the school first started it was named L’Université de Notre Dame du Lac or The University of the Lady of the Lake. According to The university of Notre Dame’s history page, there was a disastrous fire that tore down the main building, which was the majority of the campus. Instead of tearing down the campus, Rev. Edward Sorin decided to fix the building and keep expanding the great campus. In the early years of Notre Dame, there were always no more than only a dozen students enrolled in the college. In …show more content…

This year, it costs students at least $35,702. Notre Dame has also since made St. Peters into a bigger and more beautiful church. Notre Dame has expanded its campus a lot of the years but as of late they are thinking about making another huge expansion. There has been talk about Notre Dame thinking about expanding its football stadium to make it bigger. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said that if they do decide to expand the football stadium that it would not encroach on the touchdown Jesus, or the library. Some things that would change in the stadium would be to add a bigger student section, and to add more media seating. Part of the process of seeing whether or not to expand or not is by looking at iconic sports stadiums and seeing what things in their stadium are the same and what is different. The biggest change to the entire stadium would be to the premium seating. They would like to expand the premium seating so that the stadium seats 84,000 instead of its current 80,795. …show more content…

I finally found the history section, under one of the bars that was labeled past traditions. Once I was there, I was able to read about how the school started up, and traditions that started over the years. I learned that one tradition that I did not know about is that when you graduate, the take a piece of the gold dome off of the church and they put it in your diploma. Also, that it is tradition that before a big football game at Notre Dame, some of the band members performs at midnight outside the school spirit store. With my research of this website I have learned about a lot of things at Notre Dame that I want to go and

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