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...sort of hero. A millionaire who often lived like a bum, sleeping in a closet with his clothes on-because he believed that taking them off promoted insomnia-and spitting on the floor even in his cherished laboratories. A picturesque swearer who hired assistants whom George Bernard Shaw called "sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." A would-be tycoon so crotchety and bullheaded that he could give little credit to the ideas of others; so inept in business matters that he lost control of the immensely profitable companies he founded. An incurable show-off and self-promoter...
...current poll asked students whether they favor reform of Brown's current calendar, which places exams after Christmas vacation. Brown President Howard R. Swearer, who favors calendar reform, asked the UCS to survey the students; the council will present the results of the poll to a faculty committee studying the issue...
...year visa and to which he does not plan to return until he is guaranteed full artistic freedom. One invitation he accepted was to play with the student orchestra at Brown, in honor of the inauguration of the university's new president, Howard Swearer. So well subscribed was the event that Rostropovich found himself playing the Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 1 in A minor in the hockey rink. He also gave some free advice to Brown student cellists ("Technique must come before interpretation"), donned a Brown sweatshirt and won over the campus with his exuberance. One overwhelmed...
...Brown University spokesman said that although the Brown development office is seriously considering a drive, a move cannot be announced until its president-elect, Howard Swearer, takes office in January
BROWN UNIVERSITY (6,700 students; Providence, R.I.). Now president of Minnesota's Carleton College, Howard Swearer, 44, is changing posts because "I decided I needed a change of context, a new set of problems and a new set of challenges. Brown offers all of those." Indeed, it does. The 213-year-old school has suffered through a variety of ailments the past few years-a deficit of $10.6 million since 1970, student strikes, minority student protests. His principal goal, says Swearer, is "to encourage the various constituencies to work together to determine what the institution's priorities...