Word: purports
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Judges that upon with-drawing after the debate to make their decision, they cast a written ballot (before consultation) in order thereby to obtain a working basis from which the final decision may be reached. Should there be doubt in the mind of any Judge as to the purport and intent of these instructions, the Association suggests that the Judges meet just before the debate with a representative of each college, and that in this conference an attempt be made to resolve any difficulty connected with the interpretation of these instructions. Respectfully submitted, RAYNAL C. BOLLING...
Captain Brewer of the football team has received a letter from Captain Thorne of Yale on the subject of arranging football games next year. The purport of this letter is withheld for the present at least, but a reply has been sent. The statement made in the New York Sun and Boston Globe of yesterday that the letter was to the effect that Yale would not play unless "Harvard apologized" has not been officially given out, either in New Haven or in Cambridge...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee last night it was voted to send a reply to the recent resolution of the Faculty regarding intercollegiate football contests. This reply has not yet been made public and its purport will not be definitely known until after its receipt by the Faculty, at their next meeting which will be held a week from today...
...Tarbell made some interesting statements relative to the origin and growth of the school, which in purport were as follows...
...letter from R. H. Davis, president of the Union Club, was then read by the secretary. The purport of the letter was that the Free Wool Club would be considered one of the Union Clubs and therefore held to the usual yearly assessment. After some discussion, it was ascertained that the Free Wool Club had never officially assented to a proposition to belong to the Union Club." And a motion was made by one of the members "that the Free Wool Club does not consider itself bound to pay any assessment to the Union Club, for the reason that...