Word: purports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opinion of the position of the animals just described, in the created scale?" "Mr. Johnson" was forced to say that "really he had no views whatever on the subject." Whereupon the professor, turning to a second unattentive student - who had evidently not caught "Mr. Johnson's" reply or its purport - said, "Mr. Smith, what is your opinion of the position of these animals in the classified series?" "Oh, sir," replied the innocent Smith, "my opinions exactly coincide with those just expressed so lucidly and clearly by Mr. Johnson!" Some examiners try to discover what a student knows, and others appear...
...purport of the letter unanimously adopted at the recent meeting of the Yale Boat Club, but not furnished for publication," say the News, "is that Yale regrets the peremptory tone of Harvard's last letter in intimating that Yale's reply would terminate the correspondence; that Harvard's refusal to abide by the decision of a neutral committee, should the two advisory committees fail to agree, does away with settling the matter by graduate committees; that Yale now agrees to send the president of the boat club and the captain of the crew to confer with the Harvard representatives, within...
President Eliot and several professors of Harvard College have petitioned Congress in regard to the naval observatory the petition was presented in the Senate on Friday last by Senator Hoar, and was similar in purport and phrase to several which had preceded it, and which came from the like officers of other principal colleges of the country. These ask that it shall be provided by law that whenever hereafter a superintendent shall be appointed for the United States Naval Observatory at Washington he shall be a professional astronomer of experience, and that the new observatory building, soon to be erected...