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Director usually sought to iron out diffexences or to establish clearly
the basis of argument, before the meetings, es he had here with Hr.
Streus. It was a matter of course for him t o secure the prior personal
appzmal of Hr. Bmberger to every action to be submitted to the Board.
In any ordinary situation Flexner would have relcomd a complete airing
of differences, He had stood up in battle over program znd principle
with Mr. Gates and other Trustees in the General Education Board. It
was not argument that was dangerous here; it wzs anger and bad feeling,
True, this was not rr~nifested in the instsnt discussion, but the differ-
ence with his policy manifested by two of Hr. BzmbergerRs close associates
was troublesome. It was curious that in the previous meeting the first
bitter difference to occur in the Board hzd taken place. Mr. Frankfurter
had been extremely disputatious, so that Mrs. Fuld said sotto voce to
Flexner .as the lawyer was speaking: Ornisi r&n has to go!"23 But it was
not for this reason that the Trustees voted unanimously t o omit Frank-
furter's nzm frm the Board zt this meeting. Flexnes had lost a valued
friend and a strong Trustee, whose voice he b d expected to be clear and
informed but reasonable in clarifying the academic practices and experi-
ence to the lay Trustees.
In the event, there we& no ti- "to sit back and await derelop-
merits.- For Hr. Ba&erger, disturbed by what he considered to be too
ambitious a progrem of land purchase for the 'site of the Institute, de-
cided with Mrs. Fuld that they would take care of "present cannnitmentsm
and then cease giving finzncial aid "at the present time, mu fagti-
tute was to be frozen in whatever shape the Director could bring it to
quickly; the need for decisions in respect of the schools of econmlcs