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Show ments, like the Faculty appointments to be made later, helped to define, though they did not limit, the fields of study at the Institute. O n the one hand, the inevitable and desirable limitation on the size of the Faculty, and the importance of some partial community of interest among its members, have clearly foreclosed the possibility of representing all academic disciplines. O n the other hand, although we have no policy of excluding members whose interests are remote from those of any member of the Faculty, w e tend to support with special emphasis fields in which we have some tradition of fruitful activity. The Institute has for the most part sought to work without experimental facilities. In part this is because the Institute's limited funds could not adequately support such facilities; but it is also a natural consequence of an emphasis on, and solicitude for, temporary members, who manifestly cannot by themselves make feasible the operation of experimental programs. At present the academic work of the Institute is carried on in two schools: a School of Mathematics and a School of Historical Studies. The members of the School of Mathematics are for the most part pure mathematicians and theoretical physicists; but there have been members who have worked in other sciences-chemistry, biology, psychology, astronomy, for example. The School of Historical Studies is perhaps broader still in scope, and includes in principle all learning for which the use of the historical |