Word: reductionism
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¶ "You have heard quite recently of the League's great work in establishing a Permanent Court of International Justice, fenced round with every precaution for independence and impartiality. You have heard how it has done much to rescue Austria from a condition of economic despair. Of course there...
A good deal of anxiety is evinced in official circles over the railway shopmen's wage dispute. The employers proposed an extensive reduction and, if it is enforced, it is feared that a general strike of railwaymen throughout Britain may ensue.
According to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, two Japanese physicians, Umeno and Doi, have successfully introduced a prophylactic vaccination of dogs against hydrophobia. Used in two prefectures of Japan, the vaccine has already caused a 75% reduction in canine rabies.
PRINCETON, N. J., April 12.--A substantial reduction in the number of courses required in the Junior and Senior years, and a replacement of this work by independent study to be tested by comprehensive examinations at the end of each of the last two years in college, are the essential...
The new arrangement of studies, which will take effect next fall, reduces the number of required courses in each of the upper class years from five to four, and provides that two of this number shall be in the same department and be considered major courses, while the other two...