The Institute severed Columbia ties to economize and relocate westward

Evidence

In 1946 the Institute had cut its links with Columbia University, at the very moment Columbia had wanted to intensify them at the end of the war. Problems with Horkheimer’s health were given as the reason. As early as 1944, the rump of the Institute had handed over to the US Navy the building in 117th Street which had been put at its disposal in 1934 and moved into offices in a building on Morningside Drive. Cutting links with Columbia was intended to make it possible to maintain only an office in New York at minimum expense, while seeking in Los Angeles a connection with one of the Californian universities. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 426

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s wartime dispersal and its ‘rump’ remaining in New York. — connects to: Columbia’s turn toward empiricism and the war loosened the Institut’s ties with the university — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 655; Geographic separation of research coordination perpetuated the Institute’s internal split. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 421; Horkheimer publicly courted Columbia and foundations while privately planning permanent departure. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1149 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Columbia’s turn toward empiricism and the war loosened the Institut’s ties with the university — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 655; Geographic separation of research coordination perpetuated the Institute’s internal split. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 421; Horkheimer publicly courted Columbia and foundations while privately planning permanent departure. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1149 (+1 more)