Word: purports
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...medium that imparts immediacy and often suggests exclusive access to high-profile subjects. Today's covers portray concepts, ideas and trends as well as people in the news. The gallery of covers here represents artwork and paintings of newsmakers that gave TIME its signature style. This art doesn't purport to showcase the best or most important covers in TIME's history, just some of its most beautiful and--for want of a better word--timeless...
...authors of the site, who purport to “blush crimson for the stars,” post short blurbs on what they claim are the exploits of “campus celebrities,” including Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 (he “used to have neon yellow hair,” the site explains), and sex blogger Lena Chen...
...fruition. But as progressive as this may sound, it seems that the Dean Pilbeam has already reinforced the status quo of Ad Board opacity: he named only three anonymous faculty members and no students to the committee. Without undergraduate representation, this committee cannot legitimately purport to reform the Ad Board, an organization so central to student life on campus...
Such news is certainly praiseworthy, but a critical part of the story was left out of newspapers: us. We can excuse The New York Times for glossing over student involvement in the greening of Harvard—after all, they don’t purport to know all the ins and outs of our campus. The same omission on the part of The Crimson, however, is inexcusable, particularly given past coverage of the role of students in this process...
Given the serious flaws of the SAT and other standardized tests that purport to measure general reasoning abilities, including a limited ability to predict success in college compared to other measures, there is no justification for continuing to require it for college admissions. Bates College made the SAT optional in 1984, and other schools, such as Sarah Lawrence College, have followed suit. Harvard and other institutions of higher education nationwide should do the same...