For ten years after his retirement, Marion Brittain still walked from the president’s house to his office, sat there, wrote his magnum opus, and worked the alumni channels. Blake Van Leer, his successor, meanwhile ran an institute - now with that name - from a new office, lived in a new house. Suffice it to say, the place looked quite different from his successor in the postwar world. And the problems he faced reflected that.
As much as the colonel in the president’s office could know the school he now ran was unprepared for the brave new postwar world, there really wasn’t much he could do to change it.