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Bulletin 4 (1935) THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY Founded by Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld BULLETIN NO. 4 THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY 20 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey February, 1935 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Trustees .................................. vii Extract from the letter uddressed by the Founders to their Trustees, dated Officers of the Board of Trustees Newark, New Jersey, June 6, 1930 and Standing Committees .................. ix 'C It is fundamental in our purpose, and our express desire, that in the appointments to the staff and faculty, as well as Staff of the Institute ........................ xi in the admission of workers and students, no account shall be taken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion, or sex. We feel Calendar 1935-1936 ......................... xii strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all, the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of ... any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to Workers .................................. x111 promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of I. History and Organization ................... 1 race, creed, or sex." 11. School of Mathematics ...................... 4 111. School of Economics and Politics .............. 8 Applications and Fees ....................... 8 LIFE TRUSTEES LOUISBAMBERGER South Orange, New Jersey MRS. FELIX FULD South Orange, New Jersey TRUSTEES Term expires 1935 ABRAHAMFLEXNER Princeton, New Jersey FELIX FRANKFURTER Cambridge, Massachusetts PERCYS. STRAWS New York, New York Tel-m expires r936 ALEXISCARREL New York, New York JULIUS FRIEDENWALD Baltimore, Maryland LEWISH. WEED Baltimore, Maryland Term expires r937 JOHN R. HARDIN Newark, New Jersey SAMUELD. LEIDESDORF New York, New York WALTERW. STEWART New York, New York Term expires 2938 EDGARS. BAMBERGER West Orange, New Jersey ALANSONB. HOUGHTON Washington, District of Columbia HERBERTH. MAASS New York, New York Term expires 1939 FRANKAYDELOTTE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Chairman: ALANSONB. HOUGHTON FLORENCER. SABIN Vice-Chairman: HERBERTH. MAASS New York, New York Vice-Chairman: WALTERW. STEWART OSWALDVEBLEN treasure^: SAMUELD. LEIDESDORF Princeton, New Jersey Assistant Treasurer: IRAA. SCHUR Secretary: FRANKAYDELOTTE Assistant Secretary: ESTHERS. BAILEY STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MR. LOUIS BAMBERGEE,MRS. FULD, the Chairman, and Vice-Chairmen are members of all committees. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MR. AYDELOTTE,Chairman MR. FRANKFURTER MR. LEIDESDORF MISSSABIN THEDIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE FINANCE COMMITTEE MR. HARDIN,Chairman MR. EDGARS. BAMBERGER Professors MR. LOUISBAMBERGER JAMES WADDELLALEXANDER MR. LEIDESDORF ALBERTEINSTEIN MR. WEED MARSTONMORSE* OSWALDVEBLEN COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND JOHN VON NEUMANN GROUNDS HERMANNWEYL MR. MAASS,Chairman Visiting Professor (1934-1933) MR. AYDELOTTE P. A. M. Drnnc MR. LOUISBAMBERGER Associate MR. VEBLEN WALTHERMAYER THEDIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE Assistants RICHARD BRAUER COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS ROBERT S. MARTIN MR. LEIDESDORF,Chairman ARTHUR E. PITCHER* MR. STEWART JOHN L. VANDERSLICE MR. AYDELOTTE LEOZIPPIN SCHOOLOF ECONOMICSAND POLITICS Professors" EDWARDMEAD EARLE DAVIDMITRANY WINFIELDW. RIEFLER SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS CALENDAR '935- 1936 GEORGAUMANN, Ph.D., University of Munich, 1931 October 1 : First term opens. Privatdozent, University of Munich-Technische December 14 : First term closes. Hochschule January 14: Second term opens. Rockefeller Foundation Fellow sHEnsunN~F. BARBER,Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1933 May 1 : Second term closes. National Research Council Fellow ROBERTH. CAMERON,Ph.D., Cornell University, 1932 National Research Council Fellow JOHNF. CARLSON,Ph.D., University of California, 1932 ALONZOCHURCH, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1927 Assistant Professor, Princeton University JAMESA. CLARKSON,Ph.D., Brown University, 1934 ALFREDH. CLIFFORD,Ph.D., California lnstitute of Tech- nology, 1933 JESSEDOUGLAS, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1920 Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology PATRICKDU VAL, Ph.D., Trinity College, Cambridge, Eng- land, 1930 *ROBERTL. ECHOLS,Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1930 CARLECKART, Fh.D., Princeton University, 1925 Associate Professor, University of Chicago *RALPHHULL, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1932 National Research Council Fellow **GEORGESLEMA~TRE, D.Sc., University of Louvain, 1920 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1927 Professor, University of Louvain DANIEL C. LEWIS,JR., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1932 First term **Second term WILHELMMAGNUS, Ph.D., University of Frankfurt, igzg Privatdozent, University of Frankfurt Rockefeller Foundation Fellow ALFREDJ. MARIA,Ph.D.. Rice Institute, 1925 Professor, University of Illinois WILLIAMT. MARTIN,Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1934 National Research Council Fellow DEANEMONTGOMERY, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1933 National Research Council Fellow CHARLESN. MOORE,Ph.D., Harvard University, 1908 HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION Professor, University of Cincinnati FRANCISJ. MURRAY,Fh.D., Columbia University, 1935 National Research Council Fellow AMERICANuniversities now offer abundant facili- SUMNERB. MYERS,Ph.D., Harvard University, 1932 ties for study in the liberal arts and sciences leading Instructor, Harvard University to the Ph.D. degree. Some universities have made ex- DAVIDS. NATHAN,Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1933 cellent arrangements also for work beyond the Ph.D. National Research Council Fellow BORISPODOLSKY, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, degree, especially in recent years since the organiza- 1928 tion of advanced fellowships such as the fellowships NATHANROSEN, D.Sc., Massachusetts Institute of Technol- offered by the National Research Council, the OgY, 1932 Rockefeller Foundation, and the Commonwealth OSWALDK. SAGEN,Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1934 Fund. But, with the exception of medicine and *I. J. SCHOENBERG,Ph.D., University of Jassy, Roumania, a few other branches, the country has not hitherto 1926 CONRADL. B. SHUDEMAN,Fh.D., Harvard University, 1908 possessed an institution whose essential purpose it is **CARLL. SIEGEL,Ph.D., University of Gottingen, igzo to provide young men and women with opportunities Professor, University of Frankfurt to continue their independent training beyond the **MARY EMILY SINCLAIR,Ph.D., University of Chicago, Ph.D. degree without pressure of numbers or routine. 1go8 To provide such opportunities Mr. Louis Bamberger Professor, Oberlin College ANNAA. STAFFORD,Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1933 and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, established in 1930 Teacher, St. John Baptist School, Mendham, N.J. the Institute for Advanced Study with an initial gift MARTINH. STOBBE,Ph.D., University of Gottingen, 1930 of $~,OOO,OOO.In April 1934 an anonymous gift of JOSEPH L. WALSH,Ph.D., Harvard University, 1920 $l,ooo,ooo was made to facilitate the organization Associate Professor, Harvard University of a school of economics and politics. MORGANWARD, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1928 In order that the ideals of the Founders might be Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology realized, the organization and administration of the OSCARZARISKI, Dr.Math., University of Rome, Italy, 1923 Institute have been kept simple and unostentatious, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University and the several schools will in their internal conduct *CLARENCEZENER, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1929 2 THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY 3 be as nearly autonomous as possible. The Board of Trustees is composed of laymen, scholars, and scien- member of one group, have in many instances found tists. It is hoped that in this way perfect accord may it in their interest to confer with one or more members be established between the administrative officers of the other group. The Foundations concerned there- and the scholars who really constitute an institution fore accredit their Fellows to both institutions. of learning. The scale of salaries and retiring allow- The initial group forming the School of Economics ances is such that the teaching staff is freed from all and Politics will assemble in Princeton in the autumn financial concern and feels under the strongest obli- of 1935. Durine the past year the Institute has also made a gation to refrain from activities that bring a financial u return without really being of high scientific or schol- tentative beginning looking forward ultimately to arly character-in other words, that the members of the--- establishment of a school devoted to humanistic the staff may live up to the standard that has been studies. Two young scholars have been engaged in created in the full-time departments of certain medi- studying the resources of Princeton and of adjacent cal schools organized within recent years. centers in preparation of further steps when the time The Institute for Advanced Study is located at is ripe. Princeton, New Jersey. Work began in the field of mathematics October 2, 1933. The authorities of Princeton University hive been most helpful and cooperative. They offered the Institute space in the new mathematics building, Fine Hall, opened in 1931. While the Institute and Princeton University are organically and administratively entirely distinct, the faculties and students of the two institutions co- operate in any direction that promises more favorable results than either institution could obtain alone, the students
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