It is set up so that I can scan through the years. It's a little like flipping through TV channels. None of us need worry about the future of Washington University. It will endure, at least until 250 years from now, which is as far as I can see with the current model. Probably no one in this room is surprised.
Most institutions come and go, but universities keep going and going and going.
Nobody takes them over. No one tries to sell them for a profit. Some who graduated in my era were planning their 50th reunion. The campus was still beautiful on that spring day. Our magnificent buildings were in good repair.