Word: reductionism
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At the first Cabinet meeting following President Harding's return from Florida, Secretary Mellon renewed his suggestion that surtaxes and incomes be scaled down from a maximum of 50% to a maximum of 25%. His argument was that the previous reduction of maximum surtaxes from 65% to 50% had...
Mr. Harding felt, however, that it is too early to judge the effects of the present tax law. In any case he would favor a reduction in the general income tax rather than in the surtax so as to relieve the small tax payer in preference to the very wealthy...
Princeton has changed its undergraduate plan of study, in accordance with the ideas of President John Grier Hibben as stated last February. Beginning next fall, instead of the five courses now required of each student every term, four courses only shall be required, of which two shall be in the...
After a prolonged session of bubbling and boiling, Princeton has emerged with academic freedom triumphant. In the words of the Daily Princetonian: "Never in all its cultural history has Princeton taken such an intellectual step forward." The change consists in the reduction of Junior and Senior requirements by one course...
Princeton's plan is easily translated into the Harvard vernacular: individual work under the guidance of preceptors is duplicated in our Tutorial System: the one-course reduction is practiced here at least in the senior year; the general examinations, too, correspond, except that Princeton has two to our one; and...