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merh~rs of the Institute, and persons chosen from the
Institute staff. Thus every relevant point of view
should get a hearing.
At present, this arrangemnt will, f believe, suffice.
Further steps can be taken, if problem arise, for the
solution of which this simple arzanization is inadequate.
I fear, however, that mere organization and rules will not
alone achieve our purpose -- that of creating a genuine
seat 05 learning. Sympathy, helpfulness, and mutual m-
spect, involving director, trustees, and faculty are all
requisite to cxeate an atmosphere free a£ tension, attrae-
tive ta men of high attzimnts and to students of unrisual
ability., . ,
Tentatively, each school ray work out its own budget, and
the several budgets can perhaps be harmonized in conferences
between the Director and the several schools, in preparation
for consideration, first by a budget cornittee of the Board
of Trustees, consisting, perhaps, as at the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, of three scholars and two
layrren, and finally, by the Board as a whole. (Emphasis his)
5ch school would select and admit its own students. Worthy
students would be hard to find; universities cwpeted for them, offering
them jobs and fellowships. But Flexner opposed part-time students, con-
vinced "that employrent as assistant at this stage of the student's
progress 1s wrong." Some students might require loans or grants, while
others night pay an admission fee. Nefther admission requirements nor
methods of study should be formalized. The student should be the fudge
of his readiness fox the '"mark of approvalw of the Institute. His work
was to be individually carried on; sfnce the number of professors and
students would be few, "professor and students would know o m another
intimately;" machinery would be superfluous; arrangements will vary from.
man to man, from year to year, from subject to subject.
Nor would "teauworkm be expected of the faculty. Collaboration
and discussion would naturally take place; there would be abundant oppor-