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Under Master Reuben Brower (currently on sabbatical) and Acting Master G. Wallace Woodworth, Adams has gained a reputation as the laissez-faire House. Enforcement of regulations is low-key and relaxed, but any Freshman intoxicated with visions of going to breakfast, wearing a T-shirt, with his mistress on his arm, should drink a cup of strong coffee. The girl will be asked to return at 4 p.m. and Neil Harris will probably ask the student to wear a tie. But he'll call it a cravat, which makes everything all right...
...Brower and Beckett have run Transamerica's conglomerate bundle of businesses "in tandem," as Beckett likes to put it. Salesman Brower, who will stay on in a less active role as Transamerica's chairman, has concentrated on operating Los Angeles-based Occidental Life. Beckett, a former stockbroker, has run the rest of Transamerica's interests out of an incongruously tiny (30 employees) headquarters in an unprepossessing old building near San Francisco's nightclub belt. He spends nearly half his time jetting around Transamerica's expanding realm, likes to ask fellow air passengers what they think...
...announcement to come at a corporate Christmas party, but Transamerica Corp. likes to do things differently. As the sound of Jingle Bells faded in a banquet room at San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, Chairman Horace W. Brower rose to address 80 of his top executives. Said Brower, 65, who is recuperating from major heart surgery: "I'm pulling out as chief executive Jan. 1. That will give me more time for fishing, for golf and the recovery of my health." With that, command of one of the nation's largest and least understood financial empires shifted...
...Natural Sciences, and Humanities) for a two-way division. This would be created by combining History with the Humanities and including a new "Behavioral Sciences" category (anthropology, psychology, social relations, and "appropriate portions" of Government) along with the traditional "Natural Sciences" in a new "Sciences" category. Humanists like Reuben Brower and Rogers Albritton objected to the debasement of the word "Humanities;" social scientists like Samuel Beer objected to the separation of history from the economists, psychologists, and sociologists who had done much of its advanced work...
...professors who have given life to the Gen Ed program since its inception cannot carry the burden much longer. Finley, L. K. Nash, Samuel Beer, and Gerald Holton have taught the same lower-level Gen Ed courses almost every year since the program was made mandatory in 1949. Reuben Brower's Humanities 6 is 11 years...