Part 2 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

The next draft submitted by Aydelotte to the Comirtee was
mended to say that the Faculty Trustees had been suggested by the donors.'
:t asserted that the following policies had been worked out by the Direc-
:on, Trustees and Faculty:
1. That the members of the staff should be men and women
capable of creative work of the highest possible excellence
judged not merely by national but by world standards.
2. That the scholars in the Institute should enjoy complete
freedm in their work, that there should be no attempt at
planning or regimentation, that they should be left on thefr
own responsibility to do what seem~d best to them in research
and in the directian of the activities of younger men.
3, That in the consideration of men for the staff or member-
ship in the Institute, no account be taken of race, sex, ar
creed,
4, That while the Trustees have the ultimate legal author-
ity, the actual control of scholarly and educational policies
should be in the hands of the Director and the Faculty.
5, That appointments to the staff of the Institute should be
made only with the advice and consent of the Faculty.
6. That the members of the Faculty should have the dignity
and security which comes from adequate salaries and retiring
allawances,
7. That in order to secure cordial and cooperative relations
between Trustees and Faculty, certain members of the Faculty
should, as suggested by the donors, be chosen to becanme mem-
bers of the Board of Trustees.
8. That the Institute should not be permanently camnitted .
to any particular field of research, but that different fields
might be cultivated or abandoned from time to time according
to their importance. . .and the men available to represent them.55
The Cornittee made changes in the enveloping verbiage, including
Ximination of the fourth paxagraph of Veblen's contribution, which included
he quotation from Flexnex's magazine article.
Two more drafts were prepared by Aydelotte, dated the 2nd Janu-
ry and the 9th April, 1945. There is no evidenthat the Cornnittee