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...R1  Wednesday, September 1 ,1971  D1
GW

GW Gets Humanities Grant
By Tom Zito
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant of $432,730 to George Washington University for a four-year Humanities Development Program designed to help make the university more responsive to Community needs. Another aim of the program is to break down the aritificial division of schools within the university structure.
Dr. Herbert MacArthur, director of the endowment's division of education, said the purpose of the grant is to make GW "more meaningful to the District of Columbia by setting up various new courses that will involve the students with the community as well as providing greater resources for faculty members by releasing them from orginary duties and allowing them more time with students and career consultants."
The grant will be administered by Clarence C. Mondale, head of GW's newly formed Office of Program Development.
"We have two basic things in mind for this program," said Mondale. "First, we want to get students outside the classroom, and secondly we want to get away from the compartmentalization that plagues the modern university.
"To get away from the classroom, we're going to expand field-study and work-study courses that we've already tried. The field-study courses will have the student examine first-hand some of the situations that we have here. For example, they might try to learn how urban renewal has affected the oral history of the old Southwest section of town.
"The second major task is to break down the lack of interchange between the different schools within the university. An average liberal arts student, for example, doesn't learn anything about applied medicine - something that would be very useful to any citizen."
GW plans to set up "all-university courses" - two to begin with - that will utilize all its schools. One will deal with Washington, using the city itself as a resource to study areas like

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By Margaret Thomas - The Washington Post
J. Carter Brown: "We are moving into dangerous waters."

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Art

J. Carter Brown can see the whole National Gallery and there is little 20th-century art in its rooms. But all that may be changing. The gallery is negotiating with Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine for their collection, which includes "I Can See the Whole Room...," 1961, by Roy Lichtenstein

Moving Into the 20th Century
By Paul Richard

The National Gallery of Art has intentionally presented what its director J. Carter Brown calls an "anti-20th-century image" since it opened to the public 30 years ago. That image is about to change. Its traditional acquisition policies have been quietly overturned. 
"We are moving into dangerous waters," says Brown. Though he faces formidable hazards, not merely esthetic, but financial and political, he already has begun to steer the gallery towards the acquisition and collection of 20th-century art.
These steps have been taken:
- The rigorously restrictive acquisition policy established by its founder - and written into law - has been altered. When Andrew Mellon have the nation his  exquisitely refined collection of 115 pictures, he insisted that "no work of art" be admitted to the permanent collection "unless it be of similar high standard of quality to those in the collection acquired from the donor."
That caveat no longer holds, because it requires that the gallery decline almost all art not already judged by history.
"The trustees will now accept even those works 'hot off the griddle' that have been sanctified by time," says Brown. "We have let collectors know that our doors are open now."
- An equally old policy

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"Three Flags," 1958, by Jasper Johns is in Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine's collection, which may be acquired by the National Gallery. It would help change the gallery's anti-20th-century image.

See GALLERY, D8, Col. 1