Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

in research, whereas, la projecting the modern universit
I have been careful to ~ssocfete training with research. 3'
He was also aware,.though he did not mention it in these pages, that
the geniuses and the men of great talent were needed within the univer-
sity and thet in sny generation they were scarce enough to mke the
defection of one or two a deprivation to their associates in the un1-
versity, and to the students. In sming, up hi5 position, 'he rmrked
that "in the cqlexity of modern science there is no telling fzm what
source the wgic fact...or conception will coma? The very breadth of
the university, he wrote, increased the probabilities of fertility.
Althaff's biographer had written that the Prussian education authorities
were so strongly convinced of the soundness of the university that "all
the most recent fisearchi - organizations" were more or less intimstely
connected with unfversities by design. This led Flexner to write that
A research inssitute. set UP within or in connection with a
modern university, might escape some ai the limitations to
w h ~ ~ the h ~solated institutp is3xpo~ed.~
Hw much of this he actually wrote vith the Institute for
Advanced Study in mind is a question. But it is likely not mch, for
the burden of the lectures was an attack on the American universfty for
its multifarious activities, many of which, he asserted, were not asso-
ciated remotely with cultural advance or real learning, Inevitably what
he had concluded now applfed to the n w fnstitute which he was planning.
Xt seemed to him that its chance for success,, to say -nothing of Life,
depended on placing ft near a university. How could he reconcile that
knowledge with what he had learned of the Founderst attitude? Row could
he supply suitable bufldings in Newark? Certafnly he did not want to