Sentence:  A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating class of nearly one thousand at Yale ; that is , about one-half of one per cent , which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me , especially in an institution which <WSD>professes</WSD> to be `` national '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  confess one's faith in, or allegiance to