Word: purview
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...together." When this germ collects into minute, smooth colonies in the blood, it causes a cold or mild influenza. When the colonies become rough, the influenza grows severe, virulent. With the specific cause of influenza thus recognized, an intelligent way of treatment and a vaccine for prevention lies in purview...
...them. It tells him where headquarters is, and how to get there to find out from the best authorities what he needs to know. It goes, and should go, to the roots of the classification and efficiency of knowledge as a whole. It should include a broad purview of Encyclopedia and Bibliography, the general scope of literature and learning, and above all an understanding of library resources and classification and of how to gain access to them. It should give the student, as he begins his work here and makes his choices of roads to follow, a fair notion...
...know how large a part the study of parody plays in the Harvard purview of literature; therefore I cannot tell what is a fair standard by which to judge the Harvard Advocate's April 1st number with its "Mirrors of Grub Street", to which anonymous writers, presumably chiefly undergraduates, contribute a score or more of imitations of well-known writers. I assume it would be neither gracious nor fair, for have I any disposition, to apply rigid tests to an ensemble so good-especially when the whole business is a labor of love and enthusiasm, done...