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furter, though still agreeing uith his basic position, told Flexner that
he would b w e expressed hirrself differently. 46
Throughout, Flexner gtve no indication that he had lost his
composure, nor did he even imply that the By-Lws were not his awn crea-
tion, At tires Frankfurter and Cohn semd to suffer, f rm a feeling of
futility by Flexner's equability in kebating with them, so that they
ranted to rout him out of his Olyqisn calm rather thsn to prevail with ,
cool logic.
While these and a few others insisted that the faculty should
hve a larger share in governtreent, others took a different position.
Thus Aydelotte, who had irranaged the affairs of Swartbore College for
more than a decade, wrote:
It seEs to me to be the part of wisdom to be es tentative
as possible a t this stage zbout the govermnent of the Insti-
tute. You might point out...the most serious objection to
faculty governrent, which is that it inevitably becomes
legslistic. Oxford is a good (or rather bad) example, The
'inadequacy of unifom proeeedure' is the point to be insisted
upon.. .
You might, I think, stress a little more (or at least not
forget) the importance of the Director in (1) the selection
of the faculty, and (2) the making of the budget. Re will
vant all the aavice he can get from inside and outside the
Instftute, but subject to the approval of the Trustees the
final decisions on these mztters should, I think, rest with
him.47
From two friends in Colorado came similar advices, albeit from
the other level of responsibility. Dr. Edward Wde Eaxle, Professor of
History a t Barnard College when he was stricken wf th tuberculosis In
1927, £ran which he was still recovering, had been suggested for a trua-
tee by Flexrlgr in Hay, 1930, Mrs. Earle had been Secmtarg of the New
School for Social Research, Both approved of the expexinrent with faculty