Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

talent from the universities, where they belonged in his judgment,
because of their greater influence on the young and on the stream of
cultural development .,
But the Rockefeller Institute for kdical Research was known
by medical scientists the world over; pzrticulzrly wes it a'bright star
in the firnmnt of the donors, and particularly because of its Director,
Simon Flexner. Perbps his brother mphasized it here because of one
of its firm policies, stated by Sinon in the biography of *. Henry
Welch: the Institute night hsve made more rapid progress had ft
called eminent men frm abroad. Instead, it was satisfied with a
slower pace, preferring to make its mark on Amerf can medical seEence
through the achievements of American men of science. 4
Again no record remains of the dis~u~slon between the don&,
his trusted counsel Mr. Hardin, and Dr. FLexner. But it seems that Mr.
Eardin likdFlexnerRs plan, and felt great confidence in the man hfmself.
Two days later, Mr. Charles R, Hardin, who was to.do the actual drafting
of legal doctrments fox his father, sent Flelcner a eordisl letter enefos-
ing a skeleton of a certificate of incorporation and certain infomation
about Neu Jersey lav on the fomation of non-profit educational assoeia-
tions, asking him to supply the statements of substance, Meandtile
Flexner had slready prepared those sbtents, which he dispatched to
Charles Hardin, suggesting that an certain points he fntended to ask-:
the advice of Messrs. Leidesdorf and Haass, who were in Mr. Banhergerm@
confidence in these matters, and vhom he uanted also to attend the
next c~nference.~ Flemer's draft atst-nts make clear that be had
already been asked informally to organize and direct the new institution.