Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

ot;-tervise would have b ~en lacking,
The history serves Zo tell who czacefved the Imtitute for
Advanced Stzdy, and under vSat circ~mtanccs. It aiso shows that
c~rtzin features of the pla~~s, sbch ss the adaissian of postdoctoral
~orkcrs only as students, were not rrztters of evolution, Instead, that
was estnblis3ed Zimlp by Dr. FIemer witt. the Forcdersl agreement as
smn 2s Er. Flexner leaved that b. Ram5ergef anC Mrs. Fzld were not
resdy to finance a d cndcw a gradxate insritztion on their return from
the West in April, 1930. Then Cr- Flexner dztemined to follow the
Roc4efeller hstitnte for Medical ResearcS in tFis distir.guishing fea-
ture. Thz history re-~eaLs something of the relations Letw~en the Insti-
tuts and the University, which :he first Director had held to be so
fzportant. Smething o£.the m~thods by which footsteps in time are -
erased is also s hm, and considerable in ths natnre of academic pl5-
tics which cperated in the attenuated stmsphere of the hiemher learning
with E power lacki-4 in tkc usual fay variety studied by t5e pcfitical
scientist, as Woodrow Wilson is said to have ncted whec he Left the pres-
idency of Princeton University for the governorship of New Jersey,
It is not the purpose rror withfn t3e ccnrpetence of thfs seeclar
history to treat of the scholarly contributi~rs ro learning azde by the
Faculty and mrhers. That b2s Seen dane in the pu3lication in 1955 of
the Institute's Biblio=rz,phy, 1330-1954, which records their works, and
ccntafns also :he names of Trustees, Facclt). and mm5ers wit5 their tern
through 1954.
Rfxeton, Kew Jersey
,?!ay 31, I964 Beatrice M. Stern