When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, Albert
Einstein had already left the country. He was in the United States
and in contact with the founders of his new academic home, the
Institute for Advanced Study, which would open in fall...
The following excerpt by Abraham Flexner, Founding Director
of the Institute for Advanced Study, was published in The New
York Times on April 17, 1932:
The world is not yet civilized. None the less it is a better
world today than at any time in...
The following text, from founding Director Abraham Flexner’s
announcement of the appointment of Albert Einstein to the
Institute's inaugural Faculty, was published in the New York
Times on October 16, 1932.
In November 1946, Frank Aydelotte (Director, 1939–47) invited
the poet T. S. Eliot to come to the Institute for Advanced Study as
a Member in the School of Historical Studies and the first
unofficial artist in residence at the Institute. By the time...
Is it not a curious fact that in a world steeped in irrational
hatreds which threaten civilization itself, men and women—old and
young—detach themselves wholly or partly from the angry current of
daily life to devote themselves to the cultivation of...
