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...Howard Swearer, 42. The president of Minnesota's Carleton College has a knack for making things work. As chairman of the student-faculty-administration College
...Council, he has ably run Carleton's affairs for the past four years, aided greatly by the academic novelty of a balanced college budget. A Princeton graduate with a Harvard Ph.D. in political science, Swearer taught at U.C.L.A., was voted most popular teacher one year by political science majors. Lured to the Ford Foundation, he handled European and international programs, particularly in Iron Curtain countries, before going to Carleton in 1970. Recently he set up a well-received internship program there that allows students to try out jobs while still enrolled in school...
...greatest pride is his job as official swearer-in. Said Mr. Will: "I swear in all foreign service employees, and as long as I swear them in, they are going to stand up and raise their right hands. It is a very important and solemn thing, and I insist on it." But some of his chores are more complicated. He remembers with embarrassment the time when he had the ashes of a diplomat shipped back by diplomatic pouch. When the pouch was opened in Washington, Mr. Will found that the cardboard container had split, and the ashes were spilled...
...Dave Krivitzky of the Big Green at the tape by a matter of inches. The Dartmouth runners tonight will be Reggie Pierson, Sam Daniel, Pete McCreary, and Sam Daniel. Yale's entries are Warren Norris, Bill Easton, Pete White, and Rollie Sultze. Princeton has Roy Snable, Joe Bolster, Bill Swearer, and Ronnie Akoley...
...didn't you say so?" Wooden Soldiers. It is Graves's grave conclusion that the growing decadence of what was once called Christendom is leading to a point where even when the swearer has a full, fruity vocabulary his soul will be too withered to put proper punch into even his most foul-mouthed efforts. This decadence has even seeped into the British army, Graves avers; but since Britons do their best with their backs to the wall, a few drill sergeants here and there are fighting a magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their...