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1865 — the present
The boundary, printed once: The institutions of this entry — the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College — stand in the unincorporated Notre Dame census-designated place at the city's north edge, outside the South Bend city limits. Their press is part of this city's media record and is carried here in full, as the build of this history directs; the boundary itself matters to the record and is printed here, once, where it cuts. The oldest publishing house of the whole record stands there. Ave Maria Press was founded by the Reverend Edward Sorin, C.S.C., with the first edition of The Ave Maria magazine on 1 May 1865 — a sixteen-page weekly, edited by Sorin himself at the start, printed on a press he had purchased in Chicago and set up in Brownson Hall. The Reverend Daniel E. Hudson became its editor in 1875 and held the chair into 1928 — Hope's centenary history of the university rounds the tenure to fifty-five years. By the turn of the twentieth century the magazine was, by the Press's own history, the most popular English-language Catholic magazine in the world. It published for 105 years and ended in 1970; the ministry continued in books, and Ave Maria Press remains one of the oldest continually operating Catholic publishing houses in the country, at home since 14 September 1998 at 1865 Moreau Drive.
The student press is nearly as old. The Scholastic was inaugurated in September 1867 as The Scholastic Year, afterward the Notre Dame Scholastic, and it still publishes — now as a monthly news magazine. Its verdict on the city's new daily survives as the earliest press criticism in this record: "The Daily Tribune is an enterprise worthy of the thriving little city of South Bend," the Scholastic wrote in June 1873, weeks after the Daily Tribune began. The modern student paper is The Observer, founded in 1966, the independent newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's; its issue of 5 April 1968, in the week of Dr. King's assassination, stands in the Sources chapter as the ground record of that week on the campus. The university's alumni magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, and the diocese's Today's Catholic are carried at the sizes the Sources and Religion chapters give them. The campus's broadcast beginnings stand in the radio entries below; the Hesburgh Libraries' Jerome A. Fallon Papers document Notre Dame broadcasting from 1935 to 1956 across WSBT, the campus station WND and its successor WSND, and WNDU-TV.
Sources:
- Ave Maria Press, the Press's own history and 150th-anniversary record (2015) — the founding of 1 May 1865, the sixteen-page first issue, the magazine's 105-year run to 1970, and the Moreau Drive home of 1998; Ave Maria Magazine Records, finding aid, Hesburgh Libraries — Hudson's editorship, 1875–1928, with Arthur J. Hope, Notre Dame — One Hundred Years, for the fifty-five-year rounding; Today's Catholic, 10 May 2015 — the anniversary coverage.
- Hesburgh Libraries, announcement of the complete South Bend Tribune digital archive, 2 April 2024 — the Scholastic's June 1873 verdict on the Daily Tribune and the Scholastic's present form as a monthly news magazine.
- The Sources chapter of this record — The Observer's founding in 1966 and its issue of 5 April 1968; the Fallon Papers' scope, 1935–1956.