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Universities, p. 32.
CHAPTER I11 - NOTES
Minutes, Trustees' mc. x, 1/16/32, pp. 5-6.
Flexner to Maass, 2/3/31; to L, Bmberger, 2/11/31,
Aydelotte to Flexner, 6/1/31. Aydelotte papers.
Flexner to Aydelotte, 6/2/31;
Flexner to bass, 6/8/31:
Flexner to &ass, 6/10)31. Maass to Flexner, 6/15/31.
Flexner, Confidential Memorandum to Trustees, 9/26/31. Hereafter
this will be referred to as the Confidential Memarandurn, '+nsfdered
and discussed at the Trusteesa meeting of 10/13/31, TG minutes
were silent on the nature of the discussion. Though DL. F l m r
wrote Mr. Bamberger tbt during his travels he had kept careful
notes of all conversations, and of his aun reflections and Ideas,
none of these is available in the files of the Institute. Pres-
ably he took them to his srmmer harie in the Canadian woods, vhere
he prepared the Memorandum, and left them there,
The Board approved the suggestion fox the special cornnittee and
authorized the President to appoint to it four members. Minutes,
10/13/31, p. 2.
Minutes, meeting of the C mittee on Site, 12/7/31,
Flexner t o L. Bamberger, 3/1/32.
Minutes, Trustees* meeting, 4/11/32, pp. 3-6. Shortly before this
meeting, Flexner had called on Mr. Edward Harkness to ask him t o
finance site and buildings for the Institute. Miss Grace Wo~re,
Harkness* secretary, who expressed great interest in the htitute,
suggested deferring the interview for prudential reasons, It may
be assumed that Flexner follwed the mtter, but there is no further
record. See Nemo for files, 1/15/32.
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