Word: purported
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no incentive in the program for a snap course, nor for a fraternal walking organization. The training does not purport to be child's play. However, war is not child's play, and Harvard men are not children...
...current number of the magazine. The photographs all bear a close resemblance to the subjects they purport to represent, which, incidentally, in athletic pictures is exceptional, when we remember the average newspaper version of "X marks the spot where the ball was passed...
...current number of the "Advocate" contains a somewhat ambiguous editorial, the purport of which appears to be a suggestion that the CRIMSON publish outside news. Many college papers devote a great deal of space to such news, and the CRIMSON is frequently criticised for not following their example...
Undergraduate publications are apt to lose sight of the fact that the University, as well as the editors, is held responsible, and is judged and criticized for any intemperate utterance. If the editors were publishing the "Monthly" purely as a personal venture, and if the "Monthly" did not purport to be a magazine, representative of the literary ability and taste of the University, the editors might feel at liberty to publish anything within the postal regulations. But the "Monthly" calls itself the "Harvard Monthly," and is circulated as a Harvard undergraduate magazine. Its responsibility to the University is clear...
...committee has recently been named for the formation of a national association of university professors, an organization that aims to strengthen the conception of the professors' status. Its purpose is indicated by a circular letter lately sent out by the Johns Hopkins professors. The purport of this letter was that the university professor, besides his interest in his specialty, is "concerned, as a member of the legislative body of his own local institution, with questions of educational policy which are of more than local significance" and "that he is a member of a professional body which is the special custodian...