"All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, I give, devise, and bequeath unto the Regents of the University of Michigan, as prizes to be known as 'The Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Prizes,' to be awarded annually to students who perform the best creative work in the fields of dramatic writing, fictions, poetry, and the essay. In this connection, it is especially desired that the students competing for the prizes shall not be confined to academic subjects, but shall be allowed the widest possible latitude, and that the new, the unusual, and the radical shall be especially encouraged." — excerpted from Jule Hopwood's will