Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

too old to accumulate them at Teachers fnsurtince znd Annuity Association.
Far whatever of doubt attended his actions in these matters, his devotion
to higher salaries and better security in age was beyond question. In
the race between lsnd and buildings nn the one hand and scholars an the
other, he was forced by lack of funds to make othervise indefensible ar-
rangements with sore of the hmanists. Was this necessary? The Trustees
and Flexner himself regrrded it as imperative that the nucleus of each
school be established before the first Director lzid down his burden;
again and again letters beer this out, as do his ovn frequent statements
to the Board. For the other Trustees recognized that he was the only man
with acceptable ideas of what the Institute should be a d become who en-
joyed at the same time the confidence of tk Founders, on whose generosity
. the accm.pl ishment depended.
Flexner had frankly represented the accession of Professors
Gcldman, Herzfeld and Lowe as of older scholars who needed a haven and
auspices under which to complete the preparation for ~ublicstion of their
discoveries over long lives of study end investigation. He spoke canvinc-
ingly of the scholarly waste in unpublished records such as theirs. Of
course, the Institute had no fund for publications in the humanities,
and no money to devote to it. Professor Lore's ten vol-s had a11 been
paid fax, one-third by the Clarendon Press uhich was publishing them. As
for the rest, Flexner had to seek funds from the foundattons, as he did
for stipends far members in the hmnitiea.
In VIEW 5f the pressures on him, and the financial circumstances
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of the Institute, it &as fortunate that the Director was able to make
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