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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 \u201cinstallation.\u201d<\/p>\n

I thought for a second and then replied, \u201cIt is a technological metaphor. For the first hundred days or so, we were downloading<\/i> our new president, and once the download was complete, we installed<\/i> him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cinstallation.\u201d I thought for a second and then replied, \u201cIt is a technological metaphor. 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