Enrollment is life -- Young enough to still do some damage -- Believe in the unproven -- To get things done, risk being wrong -- Don't make everybody mad at you at the same time -- No tired bureaucrats need apply -- The best four years of your life are the next four years of your life, forever -- Faculty engagements -- Schmoozing for dollars -- Seize the day -- Descartes goes into a bar and orders a martini -- The virtues of college athletics -- The bride is too beautiful -- You can't anticipate every crisis -- The benefits of being a twentieth-century man -- The ideal university? -- Perpetual institutions, mortal leaders.