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Facing these problems, the university in 1976 hired Swearer, a political scientist by educational background and a seasoned administrator with six years behind him as the budget-balancing president of Carleton College in Minnesota. Swearer put together a team that brought Brown back into the black. Today, endowment stands at a healthy $144 million, the faculty is first rate, and student recruiting programs seem to have yielded rich dividends. This year the admissions committee was exultant over the quality of the 12,000 applicants for Brown's 1,360 freshman openings. The yield rate, the number of accepted students...
...vastness. Thus in the work of photographers like Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-82), we seem to be contemplating a landscape stripped to its last formal properties, strict and still and immeasurably old. Among these early landscape photographers-and some who came later in California, like Eadweard Muybridge and Carleton Watkins-there is no suggestion that landscape could be a metaphor of human emotion...
That consciousness-raising also extends to the U.S. Maryknoll's home-front fund raiser, Father Robert Carleton, says the society's biggest task of all is to "help the traditional Catholic Church in the U.S. understand the new social gospel of the world church...
...DIED. Carleton Coon, 76, wide-ranging anthropologist who traced the development of humanity from its earliest stages to the first agricultural communities and whose many books include The Story of Man (1954) and The Seven Caves (1957); of cancer; in Gloucester, Mass...
...Carleton is just one of hundreds of schools that have begun to lure students with market research techniques like those used by soap and cigarette companies. Reason: tuition costs are skyrocketing and the nation's pool of 18-year-olds is shrinking (from 4.2 million in 1975 to an estimated 3.6 million...