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A HISTORY OF TEE INSTITL'TE FOR ALV&'CED STUDY 1930-1950
Page 1: A HISTORY OF TEE INSTITUTE POR ADVA
Page 6 and 7: CW'=ER Xff DR . OPPEPTEU.IERfS FIRS
Page 8 and 9: due to the :act that since the nlai
Page 10: T PRE31STORY Of THE ZIqSTITUTE FOR
Page 13 and 14: productive phil~nthropy. On his des
Page 15 and 16: duplicate others in existence in th
Page 17 and 18: will of the testatars? The draft wa
Page 19 and 20: to & unfinished business far Dr. Fl
Page 21 and 22: discrimination was to be practiced.
Page 23 and 24: ment store of the present day which
Page 25 and 26: ut his colleagues preferred another
Page 27 and 28: University. For a ny years he was a
Page 29 and 30: entrusted to him by the donors for
Page 31 and 32: adverse to the hexican institutions
Page 33 and 34: groups of subjects to warrant recog
Page 35 and 36: There his most notable achievement
Page 37 and 38: No longer would he have held that g
Page 39 and 40: ate schools; still oEhers might con
Page 41 and 42: must have vanished when the Soard a
Page 43 and 44: quacy, He was near the end of the s
Page 45 and 46: These are bat illustrations of the
Page 47 and 48: and generalize." For, he said, The
Page 49 and 50: CHAPTER I - NOTES The souxce of all
Page 51 and 52: 18. Simon Flexner and James Flower
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CHhPmE XI THE LaUlS MMBERGER AND MR
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the date, the 23rd of April, was zl
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that, of education at 2ny level; we
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talent from the universities, where
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the proposed letter to Flexner on t
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in these negotiations to date, 9 Bu
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The faculty wouId consist exclusive
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He was now requested by Mr. brdfn,
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Meanwhile Dr. Flexner in Europe dis
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Trustees had caused sone speculatio
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spoken on Flexner's proposals with
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y Mr. Hardin, rer~kning in Mr. Ayde
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the first faculty appointmnts were
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let it to be so now, in the hope t
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October 9, 1931 . Cash.. . . . . .
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15. Eew York - Times, 6/8/30. 16. F
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the election of a successor until a
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tion, and knew that it would be imp
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see Mr. Bamberger and Mrs. Fuld bec
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In view of our conversation at lunc
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slipped In persuasioas uherever the
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if the =errhers of its staff ere no
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had left to him alone. Then he cont
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tunity for men to talk over their o
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There is no mclre important subject
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thus, in controversial fields such
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women, not with angels or supemn. D
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inevitably sink both in personnel a
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the Director was sometimes under ne
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If stucents were admitted, they sho
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happen -- death -- intellectual dea
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i. \ which the universities were no
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heterogeneous comnity such as Chica
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plan Flexner mas a6vocating in orde
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Trustees, but looked with disfavor
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were not mezningful ss evidence of
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Universities. Thus he said at one p
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Universities, p. 32. CHAPTER I11 -
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43, Vincent to Flexner, 12/3/31. Fl
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uinter quartexs duxing which the Pr
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Dr. kfschetz reemnded the appointme
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Here in Princeton the ~yciencei res
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FZexner perhaps appreciated; he not
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Hemnn Weyl of the Instttute for hth
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confidential relationship which sho
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y appointment.for a long walk and t
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Board to approve would be sent. His
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udget of over $1W,000, together wit
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discuss the mtter. This Mr. Bamberg
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their full time t o work at the Ins
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uration of a great undertaking in m
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their interests, as well as a disti
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any university depart~nt and though
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Events now moved swiftly, perhaps h
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appointments were not to be repeate
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of August, 1932, Alexznder's terns
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fore had publicized the more gEnera
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himself would be master in the new
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terms, when the Institute should op
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'i was a candidate. All three worke
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Rockefeller Foundation, receiving c
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Inasmuch as only those students wil
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eturn home. F? made no secret of hi
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new announcement that Einstein had
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ecent events at Princeton and abroa
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Dear Mr. President: With genuine an
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If Einstein has with justice been l
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professional concerns from the tiwe
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and fqortant. He declined to accept
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There were no barriers; there WEB i
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1 L 1 keeping both sides informed o
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Cooperation with the Department of
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CHAPTER TV - NOTES 1. Flexner to L.
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Institute tem.s would run from the
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was rude 05 the sabbatical yar for
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77, Flemer to Veblen, 1/24/33. Flex
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called members, and p.r2nts-in-aid9
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tending reetings of the Board and t
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Frankly, I have given our Sunday di
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'1 have thought over yaur kfnd invi
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fim for the ti= being. But the offe
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was a mutuality in Stewart's and Fl
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two grest central banking systers~
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-210- Stewart was generally xecogni
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cowardice, met John Haynard Keynes
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any specialty in the field, and who
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doubted the capacity of any economi
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and to take a very objective viev o
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f need not repeat the grounds of my
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often, and the ansver is, as I see
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men of the type described: Walter S
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is at least one hundred fifty years
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Harschak's papers, but had eliminat
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problem. ..This has been emphasized
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Emergency Council, and Chairmtn of
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Two days after the meeting, Frankfu
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enormously better than anyone who i
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theoretical analysis.* M~reover, hi
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Comittee after all. At about the sa
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contributions in kind. On the 13th
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While the Institute would assu;-.e
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declined to support or sanction an
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esult of the conference I undertook
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expenses. He had no title, and shun
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'\ \ work at Princeton. But his tra
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connection with the Institute that
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20. Arthur M. Schlesinger, ST., The
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Frankfurter to Riefler, 1/16/35. Fl
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THE SCtiOOL OF HUMANISTIC STUDUS Th
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Our uorld Is not, however, merely a
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of men whom he wanted particularly
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of the Department, its past and pre
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was such a scholar needed for exper
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may have knm of Flexner's intention
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to be try&'to persuade Dr. Riefler
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that alone -- not on the basis of l
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Director usually sought to iron out
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The memorandum w ~ s prefaced by Mo
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appointment not only because of the
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I should be particularly interested
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Unfortunately, ambiguities crept in
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xeasonably generous arrangements vi
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delighted that Professor Yeblen ant
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\ Tfie 1rstJtute1s financial aid to
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asked for two aides in addition to
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with stipends, probably because Fle
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part of the School of Matheumtics*
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its oyn, and had asked for but been
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The documents In the case cozpletel
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23. Interview with Dr. Flexner. See
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48. DDdds to certain department cha
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Why did they tzke the sction which
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during the Institute's first years
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in light of hfs views that Mr. Bsrn
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younger ~olles~ues.~ These Trustees
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vtion ef the scholar who disappears
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purchase a large site, and that the
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firmly opposed to the procurement o
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+ but f have always been candid wit
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It semed to us of cardinal importan
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Chaimh was authorized ta appoint Ei
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in custody of sone 13,000 shares of
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-328- were place3 before the Bwrd f
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larger tbn anticipated, thzt contra
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Veblen, in which Flexner said: 'Ue
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He repested w k t he had often said
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That irritation, too, appeered ta w
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training ground for the young post-
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some stimulus, perhaps Flexner's di
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ealized either, for they talked als
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considerations affecting the mathem
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\, \ Board meetings. It appears tha
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The faculty's response, written at
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have no reason to con-plain, In oth
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since the term opened, and would pr
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club house location should fill tha
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The Director had rerlly called on t
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subdivisicn costs, with Interest xe
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CWTER VIf - NOTES 1. The Treasurer'
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27. Dodds to FTexner, 11/19/35, Thi
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63. Flexner to L. Bsmbexger, 8/1/33
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