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udget of over $1W,000, together with the nams of more tbn a score
of E n as prospects, on most of whom he and Weyl were in egreement. 35
Dr. Flexner arrived in t b United States on the 21st of June,
cabling Dr. Veblen the next day of Dean Eisenhartts "enthusiastic appro-
val," and his pronise to cmnlcate directly uith Veblen after he had
talked with the Acting President, Henry Duffield. Dn the 28th Flemer
cabled the Executive Cormittee had approved his appofntmnt and wrote a
long letter cautianiq the uathematician again that financial conditions
made it imperative to confine appointments to the three, mentioned. He
added:
Anyone who desires contact with a lsrger group cEn get it, so
Eisenhart assures me, uith the Princeton graduate group. We
need at the top in each subject a few men of proved eminence.
The number whom we will wisb to keep permanently w ill, as at
the Rockefeller Institute Lfor &dical Ressrch/ be relatively
small,. , .Elsenhart vss most generous about of £:zing space for
the mathematics staff and for me in Fine Hall, and for the
present we shall undoubtedly accept his
The two matheratlcians at ~Ettingen, having made so impressfoe
a start toward 2 large faculty, now found it impossible to adapt to so
limfted a program as this. To Veblen, who had been warned in Plexner's
letter of conditional appointment, it was less of a surprise but mare
acceptable, while to Weyl, whose thinking as yet showed irresolution even
should the limits of his wishes be realized, the modesty of Flexner'c
present concept seemed most disturbfng, The Dfrector took palm to re-
assure him, but to little avail. Finally Flexner firmly wrote that na
additions to staff could bk msde until the first three appofntees should
assemble In ~rin&qon and agree on a program. That this uaa wf se in
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rhm by the fact thai'akeady Ueyl and Veblen in thekt separate letten