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enthusiasm, ability, and nm.bers far exceed anything that
anyone could have expected at the outset, Thgre is another
respect in which I myself have been astonished. 1 had supposed
that the workers would be mainly young men and wumm
who had recently obtained a Ph. D. degree.. . .As a rmtter of
fact, there are only tvo in the 21 who are recent Ph. D.'s.
All the others have been teaching. Sax have reached the
rsnk of associate professor ox assistant professor in the
nost prminent institutions of this country and Europe.
They kve been at work for as much as eight or ten years,
during which they kve made notable contributions to =thematics.
They are drawn to Princeton by the opportunity to
get a year of release from routine work and to spend it mder
the inspiring leadership of the distinguished mthemticiana
uhm the two institutions have essembled there,
They are variously finznced. Some of thm pay their c-~vn way
entirely, and the tuition fee besides. Others are sent by
the National Research Council, or...the Rockefeller Founda-
tion; still others have been granted leave of absence an half-
pay by their m institutions, despite the fsct that these
institutions are hard pressed financially, and in these in-
stances the Institute hes made grants-in-aid. Already appli-
cztions have been received for next yesr frm men who have
rwched the position of associate professor in the most prod-
nent institutions in the Unfted States. 1 confess that I my-
self did not expect that so prqtly we should attract schol-
ars who will probably ten years hence be leading figures in
the mathemati'cal vorld.114