Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

of the University had it held itself oet to compete for graduate students.
While no explicit undertaking not to do so is revesled in the xecosd any-
where, the sever61 conferences held by Flexner cnd Veblen with Den Eisen-
hart alweys found the Dean and the Director in full agreement that that
was not the function a£ the Institute,
And what of Princeton University, wtth whose locale and coopera-
tion Flexner was sa eager ta secure for the Institute, for practical
reasons of economy as well as the larger one of entering a cormunity of
academic tradition? Dr. Thms J. Wertenbaker, historian of Princeton
University when it was the College of N w Jersey (1746-1896), records
that after the Hopkins opened these was always more or less agitatlon
among the younger alumni and some of the faculty for the addition of a
graduate school. This was powerfully opposed by the traditional~sts
an;ong the older a lmi end the trustees. At the Sesquicentennial the
College became Princeton University, but it was not until 1900 that Dean
West won his battle for the graduate school, which was established first
at Memick. Dr, Wertenbaker says that the graduate school grew more
slowly than those of its friendly rivals: Hanard, Yale, Collrmbia,
Cornell, etc., even with the enthusiasm of President Woodrow Wilson for
advsnced studies. But apparently the schism whfeh was to develop between \
those two men was one of the reasons. Certainly ~ertenbaker makes no
secret of the disappointment of many of t k alumi, the trustees and the
faculty at Wilson's appointment over their favored candidate, Dean West
himaelf.
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