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...initiation: 1) The hour chosen was midnight, at which time the whole assembly of the monastery knelt in its Temple; 2) The crux of the ceremony was to burn deep into the shaved head of Wu Pei-fu nine brands, each the width of a man's thumb, and serving to remind him of his nine vows as a Buddhist priest; 3) The branding was made endurable by covering his scalp (except on the spots to be branded) with pieces of raw turnip, damp and coolingly efficacious...
...field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous in the extreme would be any application of the principle of unity as an educational rule of thumb; nevertheless the acceptance of the tutorial system by one of the two sciences that had been unincluded within it makes the hot light of attention focus the more directly on the lone remaining field of concentration...
...triumph, the moment in the fable of success in which he had demonstrated to all the world how far he had come from his job as chore boy. Success did not mean relaxation. Asked when he will retire, he jerks his thumb toward the ground "When I'm down there. . . . Wouldn't last long if I sat down and stopped...
...sooner had he disappeared than the student pulled out from under his suit a duplicate control stick, which his fellow-students had advised him to take on his trip. He adjusted it carefully and came slowly down to earth, circling about the descending instructor with his right thumb pressed against his nose and his four fingers extended upward and outward, and with the smile still shining on his face...
...what further advance in specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees on admission, would possess a thumb-rule for measuring the chasm's span...