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Show e~; <$- -SDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1966. t-b* N*to Jtork ©tweg. 'HU1 Sciences and Humanities Meet in Exploratory Scholarship at Institute in Princeton Freeman J. Dyson, professor of physics, works on solution of a problem in his discipline Atle Selberg, professor of mathematics, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. The 'Institute,' Where Farmers Of the Intellect Cultivate Ideas By MURRAY SCHUMACH Sp-cial to The New York Times PRINCETON, N. J.,' Feb. 23 \ from a blackboard covered with i- Mathematicians and plrysi-j equations and says: "Most math- • cists at the Institute for Ad-|ematicians do not in any sense ivanced Study here do not un-; appreciate the problems of jderstand one another's most re- i physicists." i cent abstractions. They mention I A professor in the humanities .this as casually as the weather, I looks up from his books and la bit puzzled that others do I chuckles as he recalls that, inor see something so obvious. iwhen the institute was expand- This is but one aspect of the ling its library facilities, some : world of exploratory scholar-: mathematicians suggested that ship that Dr. Carl kaysen of ja solution would be to discard Harvard will inherit with the1 any book more than 25 years i title of director of the institute.! old. •Dr. Kaysen, associate dean of j "AH they need," he. said, "is ithe Harvard Graduate School of j their journal::." :Public Administration and an! In this secluded square mile : authority on disarmament, was! of small buildings, meadow and named on B'eb. 13 to succeed;woodlands, some scholars have Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. who!blackboards in their homes; fur- !had announced more than sixjnished garden" apartments for i months earlier his desire to re- j temporary members have large 'tire after June. I desks, but no television; a bul- Dr. Oppenheimer will con-iletin board appeals for a cellist, itinuc at the institute as senior'offers to sell a. motor scooter. iprofessor of theoretical physics,! In good weather touch foot-the post held by Albert Einstein.! ball sometimes erupts on the In a, small office of a modest!meadow, or scholars hike off to ! brick building, Professor Free-j the woods to chop fallen timber man J. Dyson leans back from] - with axes supplied by the in-ia desk covered with sheets onjstitute. iwhich he has been trying to| Every weekday at 3 P.M. a i solve a physics problem. Care- i large table in the lounge of ! fully he seeks words to explain: Fuld Hall is set for tea, and Ithe relationship between physics-men learned in archeology, the 'and mathematics. !history of arts and Renaissance "They are usin£ a different!thought converge on the leather : kind of mathematics today," he'chairs and lounges along with isays. "One hones it m a y become; the mathematicians and physi- ;useful to physics. At "the mo-icists, leafing through the Brit-men ilsa wt mhl tae ht tle hma f nweipodretas thpb eesyarre r i ntaet.re n oYndosoc moeuyr.. ot "s u Pt araororftfe .t osA vtrteuelrcae-kd iu 'eastaarhnhen. e dtr a eponspaftedg r ceaiiAsiovm ndiielicidrsza i elihdcsne .a lat nirhT vidihs,n egedf. aw orisrulpsy atv ploeaei cgreo-ssf aiever i^?ix> Professor Felix Gilbert consults a volu m e on Renaissance historical thought. The :\'ew Vork Time Greek classics is the specialty of Professor Homer A. Thompson, leaving Fuld Hall. gift of Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld, the institute for Advanced Study has chosen to run contrary to the mass-production concepts of the nation's major universities. It does not give degrees or diplomas and has neither classes nor cur-riculums. Everyone is-* >)*'':£* teacher and student. \ In trying to describe its function about 10 years. ago, Dr. Oppenheimer, in consultation with- the faculty -and trustees, wrote in a private report: "We can provide the appreciation of a man's colleagues for the difficult, the deep, the unusual, and the beautiful in his own work; and we can provide him with an opportunity to see this intimately, and often at the time of creation, in the work of his colleagues." All 28 members of the institute's faculty have the rank of ptruosf-eassnodr -sa lafriives o fof t $h2e0m, 0e0m0e roirThey make their own sche-| dules, speaking at seminars or working in libraries when they. want to. Since the institute has! no laboratory, work requiring; such facilities is often done at; Princeton University, which hasj no connection with the institute.! dinar ,i A'Way of Life' ; The temporary members are! chosen by the faculty and stay! at the institute for a semester j or up to three years. They too] plan their schedules to suit! themselves. Private study, conversation and seminars are the heart of the institute's way of life. This freedom once prompted Dr. Oppenheimer to call the institute "an intellectual hotel dedicated to the preservation of the good things men live by." With so little discipline imposed on faculty and temporary members, subjects of study are often very broad. Thus, Profes more. Their appointments are; sor Felix Gilbert is looking into thought in the Renaissance Others in the humanities ar appraising military history i the Roman Empire and the d< velopment of science in ti Middle Ages. In their private appraisals < current affair;'.;, scholars of hi tory often disagree, but "o! tends to see the basis of t> point of view of the other says Dr. Gilbert. "Mostly," he adds, "we a: in the middle ground." Thus George F. Kennan's cc leagues at the institute guess* what he would s&y even befo he said it in front of a Sena committee. To the faculty, one of t! most important jobs is selec !ing temporary members fro j applicants, whose backgroun | are scrutinized before the fact i ty votes. Discussion at the la • such voting session, in the fie i1 o0f Ah.iMst.o raicnadl dsitdud nieost, eonpden uend |