ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:
I.
This case tests our confidence in ourselves as a free pluralistic people. It also tests our fidelity to the rule of law.
On the one hand we are asked to decree that a charitable educational trust be administered in a racially nondiscriminatory manner, notwithstanding the testator's unmistakable language that the beneficiaries be "worthy" college students "who are of the caucassian [sic] race and ... none other...
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