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Church chiefs are somewhat at a loss on how to deal with their new African converts, especially since the Nigerian government will not give resident visas to any missionaries from the U.S. "This is quite a unique situation," admits Hugh D. Brown, Mormon first counselor. One problem now is that in the absence of supervision from Utah the Nigerian Saints appear to be deviating somewhat from strict adherence to revelation. Some Nigerian Mormons practice polygamy-forbidden in the U.S. church since 1890-and the converts already seem to have established their own black hierarchy, priests...
From there, Grew moved upward through posts in St. Petersburg, Vienna and Berlin-where, in 1916, he was counselor of the embassy and worked with futile desperation to head off American participation in World War I. Later he became chairman of the Examining Board for the State Department's Division of Foreign Service Personnel, where he became a sort of career-service saint in his emphasis on the need for trained professional men rather than political hacks. He wryly told candidates: "You gentlemen have a very easy time entering the service. All you have to do is to answer...
...1930s to form small academic and social communities within the increasingly impersonal hustle of the modern university. At both universities the college system, its evolution slowed by World War II and the aftermath, is still in flux, and each new master has an opportunity to shape its eventual pattern. Counselor and friend, social leader and intellectual mentor, the master presides over the college's 300 to 400 students from his house in the quadrangle. His personality becomes the college's, and realizes or denies the original ideal...
Gilbert was raised in a tough section of Brooklyn, but managed to escape being contaminated by the rough-necks. At age 11, he went with his younger brother to Camp Molloy, a Catholic camp on Long Island, where one of the counselors wanted him to sing in the camp show. Gilbert was reluctant, but the counselor advised, "Just look at the light over your head and make believe you're in the shower." He looked up and sang, and the shower was one of loud applause. That day Gilbert discovered he had a fine soprano voice...
...Crazy as Hell." The boys live in groups of six or fewer in a remodeled city hospital, with one counselor assigned to each 15 students for 24-hour guidance. Class sizes range from 20 down to individual tutoring. Reading clinics never have more than five students. The concentrated instruction is confined to basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, relies on oral explanations, uses no standard texts. The school's accent is on the positive: boys earn merits, never demerits, are rewarded progressively with a school jacket, pins for the jacket, a school sweater...