Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

and inviting then, since he ves the one most interested in them.51 men,
as sometimes happened, same of the arrivges invited could not eccept for
the time specified, the residue of those stipends was then allocated to
the younger men, In the first nine years of its operation the School
counted two hundred sixty-eight individul memberships for pgrt or whole
of the academic year, sme of which were held by m n who stayed for sev-
eral years. Of the tatzl, one hundred twenty held positions, one hundred
forty received Institute stipends, and seventy were Fellows. The cosmo-
politan character 05 the menbers sppeared in the fact thst nearly one
hundred cam from abroad, 52
Princeton University, er.inent in the sciences, had held undis-
puted first place in the list of institutions where the holders of Nation-
al Resezrch Council fellowships chose to study, as was denanstrated by
statistics drawn from a bulletin a£ the Nations1 Research Council and
published by the Alrmni Weekl~. This wes true of the cumulative figures
for the three sciences, ss well as of those for the year 1934-1935. More-
over, while the cumulative figures showed the University of Chicago hold-
ing first m lace in the list of institutions training the men who received
National Research Council fellowships, Princeton was a close second, Of
the total number of National Research Councll Fellows in 1934-1935 --
one hundred two in all thxee scfences -- eighteen had chosen Princeton,
twelve Rarvard, eleven California, eleven California Institute of Tech-
nology, etc. The Fellms of all foundations including the National Re-
search Council were enrolled in mathematics in both institutions. Ten of
the twelve In mzthematkcs were at Princeton ln that year. 53
In 1937, Professor Veblen, apparently reacting defensfvely to