Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

for college graduates, reseerch institutions, professional S C~OO~S,
extension schools, correspondence or rsdio schools, and athletfc and
social tnstitutions. He mentioned the plan the Hopkins Trustees were
considering then; it contemplated continuing to award the Gachelorqs
degree, and the admission of students to the last two years of under-
graduate clesses, If these undergraductes were to be admitted, Flex-
ner urged, their classes should be ntelescopedw into the graduate
school, and only graduate degrees awzrded. The Hopkins Trustees
adopted his suggestion, thus making it possible to shorten the £0-1
routine American education by tuc years,
Here the author voiced some misgivings: would studemts
leave institutions where they had taken their undergraduate work for
advanced study in.such an institution? Re a~mered that graduates
from the eastern colleges went to the California Institute of Tec'imologp
at Pasadena, attracted by its small but e-llent faculty. Would t&
public support such an institution? Generally it was asslmred that
support came only to institutions identified with cormrunities, He
ansvered his own question cautiously:
Hen, money and facilities do not come together En such ways
as to lnake it possible to have a nicely rounded institution
at the higher level. No sfngle acfeace would be cqletcly
represented anywhere; st111 less, all scfences; and insti-
tutions more concerned with science would almost inevitably
be less adequately developed on t k hmnistlc side -- and
vice versa. This has always been the case in Germany, where
these things have, on the whale, been hitherto best managed.
Nor does it greatly matter; the very incompleteness of single
institutions will force all real universjties in the higher
sense to view thmselves as past of one great
Any hope that the General Educstfon Board might help the
Hopkina raise the $10 millions it needed to effectuete the Goohow Plan