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...Training Corps recruits at Utah's Mormon Brigham Young University had the dreaded fever. Among them was Private Ernest Wilkinson-a short (5 ft. 5 in.), devout and dedicated boy who was then in his sophomore year at B.Y.U. As he prayed for recovery, young Wilkinson made a vow: If he lived, he would "do something great for the Lord's university...
Eventually, he more than fulfilled his vow. In 1950 he took over as president, promptly launched the most vigorous building campaign that shaky B.Y.U. had ever known. In 1954 top Mormon leaders gathered on campus in Provo to dedicate not one, but 22 modern buildings. Last week they were back again to dedicate twelve more. In only seven years, Ernest Wilkinson, 58, has turned B.Y.U. into one of the largest church-owned universities in the U.S., with a 1957 enrollment of more than...
...vow by the sea and the fish and the dragon's tremble; I vow by the mountains and the grass, and the grass and the trees are startled." It is said that our great patriot Admiral Yi Soon Shin had this engraved on his sword during the time he defended Korea from Japanese aggression more than 400 years...
Total Freedom. Today there are more than 200 houses of Opus Dei throughout the world, with four classes of membership. Top class is called Numeraries-an estimated 7,000 members of the professions (both priests and laymen), who take full vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Most of them live and study together, contribute all their income above bare subsistence to Opus Dei. The second class: Oblates, some 12,000 intellectuals, workers and peasants, who must take the vow of chastity but do not have to take the others. The next class: Supernumeraries, some 25,000, whose vows are conditional...
...Greene ingeniously uses a cocky teen-ager to get him round a few tough corners-has too much of the real pull of a good detective story to be decently disclosed. On the other hand, the disclosures themselves-involving not just a miracle but a miracle born of a vow-constitute the very heart and soul of the play. In journeying from effect to cause, Greene has also, in his own way, moved from a character's question to a playwright's answer...