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THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY (Founded by Louis Bamberger and Mrs . Felix Fuld) PRINTED BY BULLETIN NO. 6 Z'H$ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY 20 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey February, 1937 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Extract from the letter addressed by the Founders to their Trustees, dated Trustees iv Newark, New 193o Jersey, June 6, " It is fundamental in our purpose, and our express desire, Officers of the Board of Trustees that in the appointments to the staff and faculty, as well as and Standing Committees vi in the admission of workers and students, no account shall be taken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion, or sex . We feel viiiviiL strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, Staff of the Institute above all, the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any x conditions as to personnel other than those designed to pro- Calendar, 1937-1938 mote the objects for which this institution is established, and xi particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, Members, 1936-1937 creed, or sex." I History and Organization 11 School of Mathematics 8 1I1 School of Economics and Politics 11 IV School of Humanistic Studies 13 V Applications 17 iii LIFE TRUSTEES 1 940 LOUIS BAMBERGER ABRAHAM FLEXNER South Orange, New Jersey Princeton, New Jersey MRS . FELIx FuLD WINFIELD W . RIEFLER South Orange, New Jersey Princeton, New Jersey PERCY S . STRAUS TRUSTEES New York, New York Terms Expire 1941 1 937 !SiLEXIS CARREL JOHN R . HARDIN New York, New York Newark, New Jersey JULIUS FRIEDENWALD SAMUEL D . LEIDESDORF Baltimore, Maryland New York, New York LEWIS H . WEED WALTER W . STEWART Baltimore, Maryland New York, New York 1938 EDGAR S. BAMBERGER West Orange, New Jersey ALANSON B . HOUGHTON Washington, District of Columbia HERBERT H . MAASS New York, New York 1939 FRANK AYDELOTTE Swarthmore, Pennsylvania FLORENCE R. SABIN New York, New York OSWALD VEBLEN Princeton, New Jersey iv v OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FINANCE COMMITTEE Chairman : ALANSON B . HOUGHTON MR. HARDIN, Chairman Vice-Chairman : HERBERT H . MAASS MR . LOUIS BAMBERGER Vice-Chairman : WALTER W . STEWART MR. LEIDESDORF Treasurer : SAMUEL D . LEIDESDORF MR. MAASS Assistant Treasurer : IRA A . ScxuR MR . RIEFLER Selretary : ESTHER S . BAILEY COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE GROUNDS BOARD OF TRUSTEES MR. MAASS, Chairman MR. LOUIS BAMBERGER, MRS . FuLD, the Chairman and MR. AYDELOTTE Vice-Chairmen are members of all committees. MR. VEBLEN THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE EXECUTIVE COMM•ITTEE MR . WEED, Chairman COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS MR . EDGAR S . BAMBERGER MR . AYDELOTTE, Chairman MR. LEIDESDORF MR . FRIEDENWALD MISS SABIN MR . STRAUS THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE VI vii STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES Director : ABRAHAM FLEXNER Professors HETTY GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF NIATHEMATICS ERNST HERZFELD L. A . LowE Pro f essars BENJAMIN D . MERITT JAMES WADDELL ALEXANDER ERWIN PANOFSKY ALBERT EINSTEIN Visiting Pro f essors MARSTON MORSE OSWALD VEBLEN EDWARD CAPPS JOHN VON NEUMANN H. T. WADE-GERY HERMANN WEYL Field Archaeologist Associate *WILLIAM ALEXANDER CAMPBELL WALTHER MAYER Assistant A ssistants W. KENDRICK PRITCHETT HERBERT BUSEMANN GEST ORIENTAL LIBAARY ALFRED H . CLIFFORD WILLIAM L . DUREN, JR. Curator J. WALLACE GIVENS, 1R. NANCY LEE SWANN MORRIS KLINE L. RoY WILCOX `Through the courtesy of Wellesley College, Professor Campbell will conduct field work at Antioch for the nezt svz successive seasons in bchalf of the Institute. SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS Professors EDWARD MEAD EARLE DAVID MITRANY WINFIELD W . RIEFLER ix vuI MEMBERS, 1936-1937 yEDWARD S. AKELEY, Ph.D ., University of Chicago, 1927 Assistant Professor, Purdue University REI!dHOLD BAER, Ph.D., University of Gōttingen, 1925 JAMES H. BARTLETT, JR., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1930 CALENDAR Assistant Professor, University of Illinois PETER G. BERGMANN, Dr. rer. nat., German University of 1 937-1 93g Prague, 1936 October 1 : First term opens Loucs P. BOUCKAERT, Dr. Math . and Phys., Louvain Univer- December 23 : First term closes sity, 1 934 C.R.B. Educational Foundation Fellow January 23 : Second term opens HERBERT BUSEMANN, Ph.D., University of Gōttingen, 1931 May 1 : Second term closes STEWART S . CAIRNS, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1931 Assistant Professor, Lehigh University *JOHN F. CARLSON, Ph.D., University of California, 1932 PĒI-YiiAx Cxou, Ph .D., California lnstitute of Technology, 1928 Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Peiping GEORGE COMENETZ, Ph.D ., Columbia University, 1 934 GI.ANVILLE DOWNEY, Ph .D., Princeton University, 1 934 Curator, Epigraphical Museum, Princeton University DANIEI. M . DRIBIN, Ph .D., University of Chicago, 1936 National Research Council Fellow WILLIAM L . DUREN, JR., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1930 Assistant Professor, Tulane University EUGENE FEENBERG, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1933 AARON FIALKOW, Ph .D., Columbia University, 1936 National Research Cauncil Fellow **ANTONIO I . FLORES, Dr. Math., University of Madrid, 1936 Fellow of the Junta de Ampliacion de Estudios '`'*NATHANIEL H . FRANK, Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1926 Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology MARSHALI . HALL, Ph.D., Yale University, 1936 `Absent firat term x *"Absemt second term xi '`*GODFREY H. HARDY, M .A., Oxford and Cambridge MAURICE H. L. PRYCE, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge 1 933 WILHELM S . HECKSCHER, Ph.D ., University of Hamburg, Commonwealth Fund Fellow 1936 JoxN F . RANDOLPH, Ph.D ., Cornell University, 1 934 BANESH HOFFMANN, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1932 Instructor, Cornell University INGOMAR M . HOSTETTER, Ph .D., University of Washington, **WILLIAM T . REID, Ph .D., University of Texas, 1929 1 935 Instructor, University of Chicago WITOLD HUREWICZ, Ph.D., University of Vienna, 1926 MOSES RICHARDSON, Ph .D., Columbia University, 1936 Privatdozent, University of Amsterdam Tutor, Brooklyn College LEOPOLD INFELD, Ph .D., University of Cracow, 1921 **FRANCIS W . ROBINSON, M .F.A., Princeton University, 1 934 Privatdozent, University of Lw6w Assistant Curator, Cincinnati Art Museum EDWARD J. JURJI, Ph .D ., Princeton University, 1936 OTTO F. G. SCHILLING, Ph .D., University of Marburg, 1934 PIERCE W . KETCHUM, Ph .D., University of Illinois, 1926 JOHN C . SLATER, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1923 Associate, University of Illinois Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology TS_4I-HAN KIANG, Ph .D., Harvard University, 1931 Cambridge University, 1 Professor, National University of Peking FRANK SMITHIES, B .A., 933 Carnegie Fellow, and Baylis Student (St . John' s College, **TULLIO LEVI-CIVITA, Dr. Math ., University of Padua, 1894 Cambridge) Professor, University of Rome RICHARD F . S. STARR, B .S., Cornell University, 1924 **NORMAN LEVINSON, D.Sc., Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, 1935 *GUNNAR STEENSHOLT, Ph.D., University of Oslo, 1932 National Research Council Fellow University of Oslo Research Fellow **ELTON j. MOULTON, Ph .D., University of Chicago, 1913 RICHARD STILLWELL, M .F.A. in Architecture, Princeton Uni- Professor, Northwestern University versity, 1924 Assistant Professor, Princeton University FRANCIS D. MURNAGHAN, Ph .D., Johns Hopkins LTniversity, 1916 MARTIN H . STOBBE, Ph.D., University of G ōttingen, 1930 Professor, Johns Hopkins University **MARSHALL H . STONE, Ph .D., Harvard University, 1926 -H. C. B . MYNORS, M .A., University of Cambridge, 1929 Associate Professor, Harvard University Principal, Economics and Statistics Section, Bank of Eng- HANNS SWARZENSKI, Dr. Phil ., University of Bonn, 1927 land, London E. DONOVAN TAGG, B .A., Clare College, Cambridge, 1 933 MELBA N. PHII,LIPS, Ph.D ., University of California, 1 933 Commonwealth Fund Fellow Margaret E. Maltby Fellow (American Association of University Women) *"HAROI .D M . TERRILL, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1924 WALTER PRENOWITZ, Ph.D ., Columbia University, 1936 JOSEPH M . THOMAS, Ph .D., University of Pennsylvania, 1923 Instructor, Brooklyn College Professor, Duke University xii CHARLES P. TOMPKINS II, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1936 National Research Council Fellow ANDR WEIL, Ē D.Sc., University of Paris, I929 I Maitre de confērences, Strasbourg University HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION KURT WEITZMANN, Dr. Phil., University of Berlin, I929 *JOHN A . WHEELER, Ph.D universities now offer abundant facili- ., Johns Hopkins University, 1 933 AivtERTCAN Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina ties for study in the liberal arts and sciences leading DONALD N . WILBER, M .F.A. in Architecture, Princeton Uni- to the Ph.D. degree. Some universities have made ex- versity, 1 933 cellent arrangements also for work beyond the Ph .D. RUPERT WILDT, Ph.D., University of Berlin, I927 degree, especially in recent years since the organiza- **YUE KEI WONO, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1931 tion of advanced fellowships such as the fellowships Fellow of Academia Sinica, Nanking offered by the National Research Council, the Rocke- feller Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund. For a period of perhaps fifty or seventy-five years preceding the World War American scholars, some of them still in search of a Ph.D. degree, others who already held academic posts, had been in the habit of resorting to European universities, especially the great German universities, for the purpose of obtain- ing larger opportunities for work and closer informal and personal contact with distinguished scholars