Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

outine matter..,The vzrious universities end foundations
.(e.g., Trinity College, Canbridge, and the Rockefeller
Found~tion) uhich send young rren here on fellowships are
all raking financizl contributions to the sarne cause.
The founders nnd trustees of the Institute therefore have a
right to feel that their generous support of scholarship is
receiving recognition not merely in t k form of wrLs of
praise and gratitude, but ~lso in the more concrete farm of
pecuniary support and ready c0o~eration.47
Only the first three par~graphs vere read to the Trustees, and
without attsibuticn. The lzst two did not quite overcome such qualms as
Flexner hipself had voiced to VebPen in January, 1933 at the prospect of
the Institute subsidizing rich universities such as Hr;rv&rd, Yale and
Colur,bia by paying blf the salaries 05 professors asked to c m
to the
Institute for a yeer. Adnitting that the benefits of such sn sssociation
as Veblen portrzyed were bound to be mutully felt by the staff members
and the visitors, Flexner might have remanbered that in projecting his
institute for mathematical research in 1924, the Professor hzd not feared
nirvzna. Indeed, he had suggested meesures to protect his staff from the
state by requiring some fixed duties to relieve the men engaged entirely
in basic or pure research, such as the edftfng of a perfodical or rewrit-
ing the Encyclopedia of. Hzthemat ics, and lectures to advanced students.
The Director now had to reverse his concept of the master-disciple rela-
tions which he had expected would prevail between the professors and the
young post-doet~rals who would come t o study with them. He presented the
memorandum with a preface: the hope that better finzncial eondftions
would enable the universities to bear the entire cost of sending their
men to Princeton, thus relieving the Institute of paying stipends, 48
As he surxendered his fond dream that the Institute would be a