Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

even in America. Fs pledged hinelf to do his best, and charged the
Trustees to do theirs, and particularly to be observant to see that he
himself was successfully discharging his great responsibility. But,
he said, it was on the faculty that the success of the Institute de-
pended. He must find , of unusual talentw to -
caw to the fnstitut~. It would not be easy; academic life had lost
many through poor conditians fox work, poor pay and lack of security.
He asked thg cooperation of the Tsustees in his effort to offer condi- I
Lions which vould wke the Tot of the faculty members of the Institute
more attractive than was the usual academfc appointmnt, &_could
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not say with .wha.t subjects the Institute might begin: it alight be the
physical sciences, includfng biology, ox the hrmranitfes, which he construed
to cover a11 the activities af man. htever it was to be, it
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depended on the availability of the right men and women for the faculty,
The students, he said, would have "left behind all the ordinary steps in
education end discipline. Sottie may already have achieved fndependence; I
some may require a certain mount of guidance." But none-would be I
irmaature or "uncertain," nor would their total number be large. 22 I
The proposed by-laws next reee$ved the Baasd's attentla,
Host of them were unexceptionable; ft is the feu which involved cructaZ
paints which wfll be described here, and that without benefit of any
knowledge of the discussions, either in the pre-Board coderenc- or
durtng the meetfng. The .ligislative hiatoxy of the by-laws 3s estab-
lished only by the avaf lability of the copy of Dr. Flexner*s proposals
of the 17th of September, fortunately preserved in Mr. Hardfn's papers,
and a copy of the proposals sent to each Trustee on the 7th of October