It’s been a long time since we’ve had the chance to look at the history of the Institute. Sure, each week since the middle of August has featured football, traditions, or even notes about fight songs, but the relentless march of time took a short hiatus to allow the other stuff, like sports, to catch up on the timeline. But now, with the last echoes of homecoming fading off into the distance, we take a look back into an institute in flux, having lost its longtime president to the less politically-charged Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Unsurprisingly, the biggest concern on anyone’s mind was what would come next.