Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

was such a scholar needed for expertise in the art problems of the
Middle Ages, but also for training two promising students in the De-
partment of Oriental (Near Eastern) Languages and Literatures who wanted
to specialize in Near Eastern archaeology. For research assistants he
described three positions and named three men to fill them, saying that
they were the men who vould ultimately replace the scholars mentioned
above, and would build on the foundations they have laid. 7
As for facilities, Dr. Morey alluded to certain remodeling
in prospect at McCormick Fall which housed the Lkpartrent and the Mar-
quand Library, and vrote:
In a conversation we had some time ago, you had some fun
with me because I admired the 'installation' of the mathe-
matics group in Fine Hall....The archaeologist and art-
historian cannot say with Dr. Einstein that all they need
'is a pencil and a pad of paper.' We work with plates,
architectural drawings, plans, maps, photographs, movable
objects from excavations, etc...Ue cannot do without draft-
ing roorrs, large spaces in which to lay out comparative
material, rooms for the classified shelving of photographs,
facilities for photographing and photostating, and store-
rooms for excavation records. And we must be near an adequate
library, coqlete in the extensive publications by which arch-
aeological scholarship is recorded.
When the. ..remodeling of McCormick Hall is capleted...the
group will have all these facilities..-to meet resent and
minimum requirements Lof the Departrent7.
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While one or two more men in the research staff might not tax facilities
too heavily, more vould. And so Dr. Morey suggested that the Institute
should build a north wing to the museum to provide more space for of-
fices and facilities. He closed with a varning note:
I mention this in order to give you as complete a picture as
I can of the full extent of the conmitments which the Insti-
tute might be assuming in undertaking an extension into the
field of archaeology and history of art in cooperation vith
the Departrent of Art and ~rchaeolo~~.~