Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

If stucents were admitted, they should ccroe. in gradually,
and as junior rne~bers, so as not to disturb the atmosphere
too much. Th~re should also be a sufficient number of
college houses and zpzrtments for married mzmbers. But
the use of the facilities should be voluntary. If each
member were entitled to a certain number of free rooas and
meals, there would be no doubt of their being used.
Veblen admitted a liking for the amenities at Oxford, particularly the
high table. He thought rkt there would be many bachelors vho would
prefer to eat there regularly, and the *%=led men would came aver
once or twice a week if the meals were good and cheap. "24
Dr. Ueed and Dr. Charles Rufus Morey of Princeton University
believed that such desfgns for group living would produce little except
artificial end mesningless contacts. Harey wrote:
To ne, the essential thing is that they&tudentE7 should
have a place where they can work together, and a place where
they a n work with their tezchers, not in the formal and some-
times stiff relations established by a class or seminar wet-
fng only for reports, but in the intimate contact establfshed
by mttual assistance in the search for information and
material. 25
Obviaualy he uas thinking more of the students than of the Eaculty, vhn
were Flelcner's win concern.
There was sumthing like a consensus on the subject to be
undertaken first as disclosed by three academic members of the B ard
of Trustees who answered a serie~ of questions sent them by the Direc-
tor on the 11th a£ Decmber, 1930. All took the position that the
humanities should be first. Drs. Aydelotte and Ueed felt that scfen-
nerally emphasized at the expense of the humanities.
Dr. Aydelotte suggested foreign languages and literatures, the social
sciences, especially economics and government, mediaeval and modern his-
tory, and philosophy, though he d5d not foreclose theoreticaf physics