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...Fine Arts professors contacted yesterday strongly regretted the move; most agreed with Charles L. Kuhn, Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, who philosophically commented, "It's just a matter of the almighty dollar...
Charles L. Kuhn, associate professor of Fine Arts and curator of the Museum since 1930, has tried to soften the strong diet of medieval art in the Museum with exhibitions of modern European work. Last year, designs of the famous Bauhaus school lined the wall. Modern Swiss paintings and a major exhibition of Scandinavian industrial art are planned for this year...
...Kuhn admits that it has been "quite a struggle" to rid the Museums of the stigma born of forty years of national hatreds, but he is satisfied with the progress Busch-Reisinger has made toward its triple goal: to serve the art department, the German department, and the General needs of the University...
Author Irene Corbally Kuhn accused the N.E.A. on all the familiar counts (e.g., subversive textbooks, lack of discipline, failure to concentrate on the three Rs), traced the responsibility for left-wing doctrines in the N.E.A. straight back to the late John Dewey and his disciples. All progressive education, she wrote, "has been a deliberate, calculated action by a small but powerful group of educators ... to change the character of American education radically . . . usurp parental authority and so nullify moral and spiritual influences...
...good analysis of the curriculum advocated by Dewey's followers, Author Kuhn quoted the opinion of British Socialist Harold Laski. Commenting on the educational theories of Sociologist Harold Rugg and other progressive educators at Columbia in the early 1930s, Laski said: "Stripped of its carefully neutral phrases, the report is an educational program for a socialist America. It could be implemented in a society only where socialism was the accepted way of life; for it is a direct criticism of the ideas that have shaped capitalistic America...