Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

Institute were not required to teach, they should be reqcired to write,
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for otherwise, like some scholars at Oxford, they might becone too self-
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crftical, and produce nothing. Topbee ventured tbe opinion that mthe
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closest precedents for your Institute are the academies which were
instituted by enlightened mansrchs of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. In these there was the fruitful contzct between study znd
affairs which I believe would be the ldeel conditions for work in your
Institute, st any rate in the field of hman studies." But the historian
was ~ost favorably iqressed by Plexneres purpose to overcome two of the
a~e's besetting sfns: the craving for quick returns, and "tribal exclus
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Dr. Aydelotte volunteered sotr.ewhet the same advice, conmenting
on All Souls and its contribution to both scholarship and public life.
Speaking of social scientists particularly he said: "1 believe that
some kind of arrangement which brought men back from time to tine as
they co~e back to All Souls might add a great deal to the character and
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effectiveness of thg Instit~te.~
Dr. George E. Vincent reacted sharply agafnst Flemer*~ cca-
tinued assunptian that graduate faculties were harmed by their contactm
with the outside world, and by the internal conditions of their work,
He observed at Chicago, he said, that the great men 5n the upper reaches
seemed fairly happy, and capable of fruftful research and teaching "in
the n~elstrarn.?~~
From a slightly different point of view Dr. Oswald Veblen of
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Princeton University also favored A11 Souls, priuerily because it was a
residence for the faculty. -. -.