Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

and after the most careful scrutiny and under the moat care-
. ful li~itatfons. In no instance should any exception be cited
as a precedent. 5 1
There is a real doubt that Flexner regarded the members appoint-
ed for the Department of A rt and Archaeology as in fact wmbers of the
Institute for Advenced Study. True, they received stipends from the In-
stitute, or from one of the foundations at the Director's request, and
their names appeared in the annual Bulletins as did the mbers' who
came to work with professors of the Institute. But in the textual mater-
ials which gave a brfef account of the activities in each School, the
names a£ thost who were called for the Departmnt did not appear, except
in rare instances, Dr. Aydelotte changed this policy, including as full
an account of the work of these men as of those called by the Institute.
Though Flexner was the true pro2het of scholarly cooperztion to achieve
the largest possible results without a meum or teum, it was Aydelotte,
who had not gone through the bruising experiences with Dr. Morey, who was
able to describe the fruit of his predecessor's vision vith clarity and
generosity.
Flexneras accomodation to the needs of the Department of Art
and Archeology brought him mch criticism which never twk into consider-
ation the worthiness of the individuals or the importance or value of their
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contributions to their particular researches, but rather ./ the propriety , !
of the Institute fox Advanced Study doing it at all. Here two members of .
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the School of Hathemsticrs faculty read unworthy motives in what the Direc-
tor did, saying he sought to placate hodtility at the Universfty engendered
by prejudice and bigotry. Manifestly it mas to the advantage of Professor
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Veblen to derlect from himself any criticism for raiding the University far