Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

them to abandon their intention to benefit pxeferentfally the people of
any particular race or religion. When they separated, ft was with plans
to continue their discussions at lunch on Saturdays at the Biltmore Hotel.
An element of urgency marked their deliberations. Hr. Ba~~rger
snd his sister were leaving soon for their winter vacation in Arizona,
They wanted to add codicils to their mutually-mde wills to provide for
the carrying out of whatever plan they declded upon should a ftital ill-
ness or accident take either or both 05 them during the trip. Draft*
were pre~red for discuss-ion of sweral plans.
Dr. Flexner left in the files of the Xnstitute for Advanced
Study copies of three separate plans, each differing in important re-
spects from the others, and all sequestexed in sn envelope bearing in
his handwriting the legend '2egal Papers. Working Papers, Formation of
the Institufe."
Judging by these, the first plan to be considered contearplated
financial aid to an unmned institution to effect-re its unrealized
plans for a university devoted exl;lusively to gxaduate education. The
second outlined the esteblishment of a new university in Neu Jersey for
graduate teaching and research only. The third enbodied the basic plan
for the Institute .for Advanced Study. Presumbly after the first was
considered and rejected, the second was discussed, amended in certain
particulars at the dmors' request, and was incorporated in their mutually-
made wills at the time, The third resulted from further negotiatlm In
April, after the return of the donors from z vacation in the West.
By the terms of the first, the donors proposed to devote their
residual estates to a beneficial purpose in education which would neither