Editing Institute for Advanced Study (section)

===Early years===
For the six years from its opening in 1933, until Fuld Hall was finished and opened in 1939, the institute was housed within [[Princeton University]]—in Fine Hall, which housed Princeton's mathematics department.<ref>Axtell, p. 95.</ref> Princeton University's science departments are less than two miles away and informal ties and collaboration between the two institutions occurred from the beginning.<ref name=Leitch1978>Leitch (1978).</ref> This helped start an incorrect impression that it was part of the university, one that has never been completely eradicated.<ref>Regis, p. 26.</ref>

On June 4, 1930, the Bambergers wrote as follows to the institute's trustees:<ref>Pais p. 64.</ref>

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Bamberger's policy did not prevent racial discrimination by Princeton.  When African-American mathematician [[William S. Claytor]] applied to the IAS in 1937, Princeton University said they "would not permit any colored person to go to the Institute for Advanced Study."  It was not until 1939, when the institute had moved into its own building, that Veblen was able to offer Claytor a position; but this time Claytor turned it down on principle.<ref name=tutor>[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Claytor.html William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor] at the [[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]]</ref>

[[File:Albert Einstein and Abraham Flexner at the Institute for Advanced Study.jpg|thumb|left|260px|left to right: [[Albert Einstein]], [[Abraham Flexner]], [[John R. Hardin]], and [[Herbert Maass]] at the IAS on May 22, 1939]]

Flexner had successfully assembled a faculty of unrivaled prestige<ref>Bonner, From the first, an invitation to come to the institute was viewed as a mark of prestige.  p. 256</ref> in the School of Mathematics which officially opened in 1933. He sought to equal this success in the founding of schools of economics and humanities but this proved to be more difficult.  The School of Humanistic Studies and the School of Economics and Politics were established in 1935.  All three schools along with the office of the director moved into the newly built Fuld Hall in 1939.<ref>Institute for Advanced Study (1940), p. 3</ref> (Ultimately the schools of  Humanistic Studies and Economics  and Politics were merged into the present day School of Historical Studies established in 1949.)<ref>Institute for Advanced Study (2010), p. 2</ref> In the beginning, the School of Mathematics included physicists as well as mathematicians.  A separate School of Natural Sciences was not established until 1966.<ref>Institute for Advanced Study (2013): ''IAS Bluebook'', p. 16</ref><ref>Batterson p. 142.</ref> The School of Social Science was founded in 1973.<ref>Institute for Advanced Study (2014), p. 42</ref>
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