Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

men of the nost distinguished standing because of the freedw
and bund dance of oppdrtunfties whfch they will enjoy in the
prosecution of their om work, and in the selection and train-
ing of students, and in the mintenace of t k highest possible
standards in science snd scholarshkp.
In the interests a£ promuting cordis1 snd cooperative relatjons I
betueen the trustees and the faculty, tke professors were to elect not I
more than three of their medsers to serve as trustees.
The trustees might offer financial aid to acceptable studmts
who would otherwise be unable to pursue advanced studies. Acceptance
of gifts found to be incmpatible uith the purposes of the institution
was 2roscribed. Its czpital was not to be impaired by expenditures
for site, buildings or equfpment. Like the first drafts, this one also
provided thst the donors might initiate the foundation, and contemplated
their naming in the codicfl the nucleus of a board of trustees.
The plan appears to have been almst wholly acceptable to
Hr. Bmberger and his sister; however, they directed Flexnes to make
certain changes which he considered to be extremely Important. These
eliminated the provisions for special attractions to scholars and for
financial aid to students, together uith a paragraph which expressed
hope that the bufldings would *exercise a beneffcial effect an the
architectural taste of the ~omanity.~ (This in view of the donora*
apparent intention to require that the new institution be located oa
a part of the thirty-acre FuLd hcmesfte could have been taken as a
gratuitous reflection en the Fuld domicile.) Substituted for these
provisions was a clause giving the trustees discretion to change the
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purposes for which the bequests were to be used, providing that na
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