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club house location should fill that need, and thus without" eny eonsidera-
tim of the pending plan for the Lhiversitygs possible final action.
'Without initiating any general di~cussion,~ he wrote Mr. Maass,
he had consulted Dr. and Mrs. Aydelotte about a feu simple and relatively
inexpensive chznges in the Olden &nor -- the old Colonial home on the
Farm -- to provide rows on the first floor =here the ~ernbers might gather
socislly and s m nine residential roms on the two top floors far ofsi-
In December, 1936, he presented blueprints hnd'an esti~te of
$10,000 to Mr. &ass for the attention af the Executive Cornittee, whkch
was to meet an the 28th. &ESS passed these to Plexner for the agenda,
with another proposal -- a plan for Institute aid to Institute professors
in building theirhomes which Dr. Riefler had prepared at the Cormittee's
request. Both received the epproval of the Executive ~oomittee.~' Bur
the Director prepared no minutes of the meeting, and took'no steps to
carry out the plan for OldenManor, writing Professor Veblen frankly that
the Institute had no money for that purpose, and that the housing plan
deranded all his attention. 78
The younger professors had been able to rent homes during the
depressfon; now that economic condftfons were eesfer, families were re-
turning to Princeton to occupy their ovn homes, and since eppropriate
comrcial rentals simply did not exist there, something had to be done
to help the new permanent arrivals establish themselves, as the University
had long since discovered. Professor Veblen knew this, and so vhen Flex-
ner challenged his plan he apparently did not press the social center
further. But he did not fail to note the high-handed attitude. Flexner
wrote: