Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

terms, when the Institute should open for work, and what the second
Bulletin should say zbout all these things, Slexner still occupied his
office in New York; he did not move it to Princeton until Hay, 1933,
Then, instead of taking space in Fine b 11 as he had been invited to do,
he opened his offices at 20 Nassau Street. Nau VebLen came to New York
to see him occasionally, and Flexner came to Princeton about as often,
Fcrtunetcly for the history, some of their deliberations were carried
on by letter. .
&spite the object lesson of the Rockefeller Institute for -
Medical Research, Flexner found it necessary to urge Professor Veblen
to send on to him correspondence from candidhtes for the doctorhte uho
now applied for admission to the Institute, so that he might save his
precious time. Agafn he mde it quite explicit that candfdates were not
to be admftted:
I feel very certain that persons who have not exhausted the
appartunfties of our graduate schools are not going to be
the kind of persons you or Professor Einstein,wfsh to admit
=ept in very unusual circumstances.~
Further conversations enebled Vablen to wrkte Dr. Weyl, and to
explain the plan for the Institute as neither of them had understood it
from materials so far developed, or frmn conversatkons w ith Dr. Plexner
at ~8ttfn~en. He said first that Dr. Flexner vas determined to make no
further moves in personnel until Weyl decided what he was going to do
aSout the Institute's offer.
plexnertE7 ideas about the rathgmatical group seem to have
become more definite in this respect: that a sharp distinc-
tion w ill be made between the appointments as permanent mm-
bers of the kstitute and the others. There will be such
spectnnn of associate and assistant professors and instructors
as there is in the usual American university. One wilL be