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emitted as trustees give promise....
Whether thf s institution shll rise, physically, in this
city or In its environs, it fannot fail to bring to the area
over which Newark's influence extends an intellectual stim-
Lation, the effect of which will be incalculable ...
This institution at its inception receives something far
more useful to the scholar than money. This is t h un- ~
trameled opportunity to follow intuition and experimnt
into the unknown, where lie fields of knowledge useful to
ran, but still locked sgafnst him.
In endowing their foundation with that opportunity Mr. Bam-
berger and Mrs. Fuld h ve given it Rore than their nillfons.
Under the direction of men like Flexner, Carrel end Weed,
and wcrr;en like Dr. Florence Sabin, it is bound to be well
used. This gift .p uts this cmunity more and more under
obligation to the generosity and vision of the Bzmberger-
Fuld failies,l4
The Sew York Tines vss generous in its coverage, quoting the
entire Letter of the Founders to the Trustees, and givfng additkonal
details. Tlze Founders and the Director were conmended for the delib-
exateness with which this unique institution was ta be developed. It
would be the first and only one of its klnd in the country, When Dr.
Flexner returned frm Europe he %auld undertake to enlist outstanding
teachers in their respective fields as tmnbers of the faculty." The
Institute would be cseducational, accepting on an equal footing people
of all races and creeds ueeting its high standards. ?he laudable pur-
pose to establish an institution exclusively post-gradute in its
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actfvities was warmly approved- The story continued:
At the Bamberger offices it was said that temporary quarters
... could be obtained without using any of the $5 million endowment,
It w2s 2180 explained that the initial endmnt would
be augnrented from tfme ta time to pravide for such expansion
as might becatle necessary. For the present no medfcal department
will be operated, but it is expected that such a departmnt
may be added
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