Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

Board to approve would be sent.
His corwessetfon with Dr. V,blen had an outcome which he m y
or may net have anticipated. The Professor gave a nlrmber of reasons why
it would be desirable to call him to the Institute, insisting that it
would wither brm the University's Department of hthematfcs, nor
prejudice future cooperation with the University. Flexner had evidently
setfsf ied hiaself in England of Dr. ~eblen~s high standfng among kreri- 1 ',
can rathematiclans, but withdrew from Gsttingen without having made him
an offer, From Berlin he wrote Veblen of the news he had received and
his imninent: departure from Europe, which wauld prevent his return to
~ gt ingen t , and cont f nued:
b to you, 9 mind is clear. If Hiss ~ethalyri~ Jones and
Professor &the* P. J Eisenhart interpose no obytacles wMch
hinder you, I shall-on hearing affirmatively recand your
appointment on the fallowing terms:, , . Your service to begin next fall, though the Institute itself
cannot expect ta operate until the fall of 1933...ALl other
details to be left in abeyance, until I return to Amerfca
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and see what the financial situation is, Yesterdayas Frank-
furter Zeitunq contained a speech by Senator Reed that was
very dark..,
1 look fornard confidently to co-operation in t h development
of a mathatical institute, 1 want no needless delay, but
on the other hand we must heed the general conditions and
pledge ourselves to do nothing we cannot easily live up to, 31
Even before he had Veblen's acceptance the Director wrote of
this comnitment to his secretary, Mrs. Esther Bailey, putting his action
fozward not only on t h ground ~ that Veblen was one of the ablest of
American mathematicians, but also that be was
the men on dose judgment I can mast fully rely,, -FebleET
thought the Princeton authorities would feel it a great dfs-
tinction for him, and that they would interpose no difficulty
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