The resignation of Dr. Abraham Flexner, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for nine years since its inception, has prompted the New York Times to praise his services editorially as “a militant educator fighting in a democracy for the higher things of life and especially for the education of the ‘gifted.’
Dr. Flexner, who is 74, resigned on the advice of a physician. The institute was founded in 1930 by Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld of South Orange, N.J., and has attracted eminent scholars to its faculty, including Prof. Albert Einstein.
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