Word: reductionism
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The reduction of the public debt in March is estimated at $16,000,000.
The Senate has voted in favor of the franking privilege. The post-office bill was considered yesterday. It is thought there will be no reduction of whiskey and tobacco taxes during this session of Congress.
One hundred and twenty ring spinners employed in the Pacific Mills at Lawrence struck yesterday, because of a reduction in wages. 64,000 spindles were silenced. The strikers were receiving 95 cents a day, and were asked to work for 85 cents.
Three out of the four practical university problems of the day in England, stated by Prof. Bryce in his lecture on English universities, exist as well for Harvard to solve. (1) Rightly Mr. Bryce named the reduction of expenses for students as the first of these problems. It is difficult...
"The fellowships yield from $750 to $1,000 a year. Most of them are at Oxford awarded for proficiency in the same studies as are required at the examinations in the various schools of the university. There is hence difficulty in England in causing students to follow any lecture course...