Yesterday, after the subject had come up of Butler University having recently installed its new president, someone asked me why it is that universities have this custom of hiring a new president and then, some months later, having an “installation.”
I thought for a second and then replied, “It is a technological metaphor. For the first hundred days or so, we were downloading our new president, and once the download was complete, we installed him.”
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In