Word: purports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exasperating to think that this article can go forth to other colleges and to the public in general and purport to be Harvard sentiment. The writer would suggest that the college assume a Dictatorship over this publication...
...History of the Law of Businest Corporations before 1800," and Mr. Austin Abbott's paper on "Indians and the Law." Mr. Wiliiston's essay, which was begun in the October number. was written for the prize offered last year by the Harvard Law School Association. While the main purport of the essay is to treat of the development of the law of corporations, the more popular aspect of these institutions as shown in their external history and in their influence in the commercial world of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not neglected. The essay is, therefore, interesting...
...which perpetually appears in that weekly publication, the University Calendar, the front seats in Appleton Chapel are always (?) reserved on Sunday evenings for students alone until 7.30, at which hour all vacant seats will be filled by the surplus Cambridge people. How many complaints have been made, whereof the purport is that on Sunday evening last there was a great rush from the high-ways and byways of this classic town to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Brooks was to preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with...
...stage-that ignoring of substantives and verbs, and throwing the main stress of the voice upon the minor parts of speech, Upon the whole, the reading was less constantly declamatory than we had expected and feared. Now and then a line, especially if it had a pathetic or humerous purport, would come out in quite a human way. The most striking general failing was a tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack...
...this country. The advice of the King of Bavaria to a young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...