Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

near the apposite University departments'. Flexner lesrned in July that
sm.of the conjoining lots were to be sold for taxes. He promptly In-
Eomd Mr. Maass, who secured pemission from the Founders to take
options an the farm property and to purchase the lats. &ring the simmer
Flexner conferred with President Dodds, writing Veblen on the shepe of
f have had a telk with President Dodds who told re that the
Cormittee on Grounds and Buildings was very favorable to cooperation
with us,-and had left it to a cornittee composed
of himself, LE. C./ - Mintringer, ~ n d some other person whose
nzme 1 forgot.. ..There was general Ggreement on the Olden
Fsrm and the property connecting it with the golf course.
The options all run until late next fall. If worst comes
to worst, and we decide to build elsewhere than on the golf
course, we should easily dispose the lots which Mr.
Thms is going to secure far us. d
Veblen urged that the first building should be some kind of
central headquarters for the Institute: it would %et various doubts at
rest in the wnrmunity, and the latter would make the actual work of tht
particular group in question much more effective.'' "The latter" in this
case referred to "the extension ef Fine Halln for use of the School of
~athematics.~~ Flemer's answer was that the first building should bc s
Central headquarters, since that would enable the Institute "to offer
smthing to Prlneeton," He hoped that, unless someone at the Institute
were over-zealous, the two projects might be made to overlap.25 And
then, before the Institute's tern opened, and, one may be sure, 4th *=
Bamberger's approval, Flexner wxote President Dodds as follavs:
Since the Institute for Advanced Study located at Princeton,
the Committee on Site and f have been slowly deliberating as
to the possible locations which would aceamnudate the offices
of the Institute and such additional departments es might be
established fxm time t o time. Ils I did not at the beginning
feel uyself at home in Prfnceton, we have proceeded-in a very
leisurely way.