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Show T H E Institute for Advanced Study is devoted to the encouragement, support and partronage of learning- of science, in the old, broad, undifferentiated sense of the word. The Institute partakes of the character both of a university and of a research institute; but it also differs in significant ways from both. It is unlike a university, for instance, in its small size-its academic membership at any one time numbers only a little over a hundred. It is unlike a university in that it has no formal curriculum, no scheduled courses of instruction, no commitment that all branches of learning be represented in its faculty and members. It is unlike a research institute in that its purposes are broader, that it supports many separate fields of study, that, with one exception, it maintains no laboratories; and above all in that it welcomes temporary members, whose intellectual development and growth are one of its principal purposes. The Institute, in short, is devoted to learning, in the double sense of the continued education of the individual, and of the intellectual enterprise on which he is embarked. The Institute for Advanced Study was founded in 1930, by a gift of Mr. Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld. The Founders entrusted the general supervision and furthering of the Institute's purposes to a Board of Trustees of fifteen members, and to a Director elected by them, who should have primary responsibility for its academic affairs. The first Director was Abraham Flexner; he was |