Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

He wrote:
I am sending you kere-ufth raterial with which to fill out
the blanks in the Certificate of Incorporation. I shall
show your letter this afternoon to Mr. Maass sad Mr,
Leidesdorf, who have been in &. Bamberger's confidence,
and ask them to commnicate with you regkrding details
which I am not in s position to settle.,.
The enclosure read as fallows:
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First: The name or title by-which this corporation is to
be known in law is the Institute of Higher Learning or the
Institute for Advanced Studies to be situated at or near the
City of Newark. The Institute shall have a faculty or staff
headed by a Director, whose functions will be defined by
the By-Laws to be hereafter adopted.
Second: The purpose for which this corporation is fomd
is the prmotion of knowledge in all fields and the train-
ing of advanced workers for and beyond the Ph, D. degree
and similar professional degrees of equal standing. The
conditions under which such degrees will be avarded uill
be at lest equal to those derranded by the most exacting'
educational institutions in the United States.
Fourth: The corporation shall be'rrrahaged by a Board of not
to exceed fifteen Trustees who shaL1 be divided into fi~e
equal classes sesving respectively for one, two, three,
four, and five years, and vacancies due ta t k expiration of .
.term, resignation, death, or other cause shall be filled bp
the remaining Trustees in aecosdanec with the By-Laus which
rill be adoptedD6
As the drafts were being perfected, Mr. Bamberger askez: m.
Hardin to schedule a meting for the 5th of Hay. kain speed was
essential: Dr. Flexner was due to sail far Europe in mid-Hay. Some-
what defensively Hardin replied that he and hfs son were to attend the
American Bar Assbciation.~etings in Washington during that week; the
twelfth would do equally well, he thought. Drafting uas well in hand,
and a11 pending matters could be dlsposed of at one further meeting.
But before he left Hardin prepared for Bamberger the follouing letter
to Dr. Flexner, leaving blank the compensation. Eir. Bamberger aent