Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

have no reason to con-plain, In other words, you w ill ex-
change influence which you now possess for power which won*t
amount to anything. The important factors in a sfizll insti-
tution are infornzlity 2nd cooperation, not power. I don't
myself want paver and you donwt need any....There is another
fallacy in representation. You all know there zre divisions
in every faculty: divisions between the young and the old,
divisions between conservatives znd progressives, ff you
appoint representatives, they will always represent the major-
ity, and the minority will go unrepsesented, though it my be
that the minority is the wise section. If you keep the thing
on the basis 05 influence rather tbn representation, an in-
f luential and correct minority may have far mare influence
than a reactionary mjority.
The Director then ssked the faculty members not to go about con-
trasting their conditions with those sf Princeton's fealty.
It is in our interest, 2s in theirs, that the University
should be made as strong as possible. * If therefore sny question
should ever arise as to ~hether a particular person
should be invited to join the University faculty or the Institute
faculty, I should without hesitetion step aside in
order that the University might secuxe him,
He added that he had dane precisely that in the czse af Professor Merftt,
whom he had recornmended for eppoinbent only after the President at his
suggestion had consulted the Department and learned that they wanted a
man whose interests were more general, rather than &ritt8s more highly
specialized ffeld.
That attitude ought, I believe, to characterize evexy step
we take. If it does, Princeton and the Institute togethr
will have made a notable contribution to hricsn scholar-
ship in the form of a new type of cooperation.
He confided to them that when he had told Mr. Bamberger he was
too old to organize and direct the Institute in 1930, Mr. Bamberger had
said he wanted him to do it, and added that "f should do: as be vould do
In his own business, namely, train an understudy." With a feu more words
in support of continued infomlity, and a request that the members should
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