Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

sorPanofsky was at McCarmick H all, Professor Lowe, coming to Princeton
in the winter of 1937 after traveling to collect facsimilies, found inad-
equate the study prepared for his use at 69 Alexander Street.znd rented
space in his home for his work, the Institute paying for the extra facili-
ties. Professors Capps, Goldman, Heritt, Earle, Mitrany and Riefler oc-
cupied studies in the house on Alex~nder Street.
There is no doubt that Flexner hoped the School of Humnistie
Studies would organize itself, as had the School of Mathematics, around
and under the leadership of Professor Meritt. But the Professor spent
his first year of employment by the Lnstftute at Oxford and fri Athens,
arriving in Princeton in October, 1936. Meanwhile Flelrner had implied
his expectation that Meritt vould unofficizlly nleadw the hmnists as
Veblen did the matherraticians by noting in the Bulletin that in the ab-
sence of Professor Merftt, "the t ~ s k of beginning fell to Professor
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Pznofsky." But even after Professor I*!rittms arrival, t k faculty of
the School showed no disposition to organize themselves into a group. Of
course they were scattered; casual meetings were impossible, except for
the three at the old house. One had to make an appointment, and they were
so busy with their work that they failed to do it. Herzfeld and,Panofsky
were each givfng a course of lectures at Hew York University and the
Metropolftan hseum, and devoting s~me time to the Department's needs,
while the greatest part of their thought and energy was devoted to can+
plcrfng their wn ~rudies.~~ Beeide that, Rerrfeld was e 'natural recluse.
Dr. h e
worked at m,
But humanists seem to be different from mthematf clans in any I
event. The new men were mre individualistic; the mathematicians were