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Today Aydelotte's recently-appointed successor, atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, heads up an endeavor equipped with its own comfortable $8,000,000 building, the gift of founders Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld of Newark department-store millions. Professional chambers range from twice to four times the dimensions of those enjoyed at most wealthy universities. Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Paleograplier Elias Avery Lowe won additional windows to help him avert eyestrain while deciphering ancient texts. It was not like this under the tenure of first director Abraham Flexner...
Said concurring Justice Stanley H. Fuld: "When account is taken of the vast and far-flung audience reached by radio today-often far greater in number than the readers of the largest metropolitan newspaper-it is evident that the broadcast of scandalous utterances is ... [as] harmful to the defamed person's reputation as a publication by writing...
Every year, from all over the world, some 50 to 60 "members" come to the Institute. Most of their work there is individual research-in mathematics and physics, economics and history, or the humanities. Institute members have tea and talk together every day in Fuld Hall's "common room." Albert Einstein is the best-known faculty member (though emeritus), and the other 17 are also eminent in their fields...
...small, self-made millionaire sold out to Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. in 1929 his store's annual sales had reached $40,000,000, his farewell gifts to 235 veteran employes totaled more than $1,000,000. In 1930 Bachelor Bamberger (and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) gave Educator Abraham Flexner $5,000,000 to found Princeton's famed Institute For Advanced Study...
...Institute's second Director, Frank Aydelotte. The first was Abraham Flexner, long-secretary of the Rockefeller General Education Board, who conceived the Institute to help the Bambergers usefully divest themselves of a piece of their fortune. Kindly, eary Aydelotte, onetime president of Swarthmore College, has reigned smoothly in Fuld Hall for four years. A specialist in Elizabethan literature, he hastens to admit that his professors are usually far beyond him in their special fields. He hopes that the Institute is influencing U.S. education right down to its foundations. Believing that the best teachers must also be functioning, creative scholars...