Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

of men whom he wanted particularly to associate with the Institute.
Plexner found congenial counsel .in Princeton's Department of
Art and Archaeology, which hsd in the past benefited from Rockefeller
grants for archaeology. To cooperzte with that Departwnt was again, as
it had been in mathematics, to "buil2 the peaks higher;" it was at thst
time one of the strong departments in the University. Moreover, its
Chaimn, Dr. Charles Rufus Morey, was willing to cooperate with the
Director by lending his academic authority to support the accession by
the Institute of classicists as well as of art-historians and archaeolo-
gists. In the circumstances, one may understand that the scholars and
their fields of interest who were chosen to staff the third School rep-
resented an acconmod2tion between the two men.
Dr. Horey was a powerful administrator as well zs an ardent
art-historian. He had only recently becm Chairman, although he was
brought into the Department by Professor Allen Marquand, whq-ey said,
was the first art-historian in any American.university,since most men
in the fine arts to the limited extent of their development -in those
early days inclined toward connoiseurship. Under the enthusiastic leader-
ship of Marquand and his successors, the Department of Art and Archaeology
acquired valuable art collections and two fine libraries, the Barr Perree
and the Warquand, which made Princeton a prime source of materials for the
history of art.
Of Morey himself one of his colleagues and successors was to
write at the time of hisdeath that he had "a uagnetic eye and a quiet but
determined manner of speaking...a compelling personality and steadfast
character, and where questions of value entered in, he could be uncompro-