Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

either a full and permanent member or else on a definitely
limited appointment.,.fn the Institute the scientific work
will be the only thing.
and added:
There were many applications for admission as students, he wtote,
To all of the who are not approximately at the Ph. D. stage,
the answer is that they had better try to get into the Prin-
ceton or same other graduzte school. The idea is quite defi-
nite zt present that there are to be no degrees snd that only
students who sre acceptable to the professors are to be ad-
mi tted.69
However, Professor Veblen wzs reluctant to give up his work with
graduate students; he valued highly his contacts with some of the more ad-
vanced smong those whose work he k d supemised, and wes well known for
his ovn excellence in the relationship. Though he was naw an employee of
the Institute, he continued to supervise the work of a graduate student
he had accepted before he left Princetan. The next Bulletin was being
prepared for press, and Flexner consulted him constantly about the text.
Veblen asked that the m e
of the student be entered in it es nStu&nt of
Professor VeblenOH But Flexner was unwilling to have anything appear in
the Bulletih, xlentlonfng graduate work. Again in Julys 1933 he found it
necessary tc defend his post-doctoral principle:
I don't want to begin giving the Ph. D. degree, for I donWt
t
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want to involve the staff in theses, examinations, and aPf j
the other paraphernalia. There are plenty of places where
a uan can get a degree. Our work must be beyond tMt stagea70
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But Professor Veblcn inafsted frm time to time, and finally fn December, 1
1935. Dr. Flemer discovered that the School of bth-tics had violated
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both t b post-doctoral principle and the equally ffnnly established fulltime
rule. A bachelor of Science, candfdate for the doctorate, was a I
merher, and Professor Veblen had two halF-time assistants, one of whm
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