Word: spokesman
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...from the universities and colleges in every part of our country has been a true delight; to reflect what their presence means for the solidarity of American education, and co-operation in solving its problems, is an inspiration, and to me a great encouragement. To you, Sir, as their spokesman, we desire to express our gratitude for your kind words. On more than one occasion you have yourself depicted the tasks that lie before us in sentences of fire; and I trust that in solving them, American institutions of higher learning will ever be drawn closer together in the bonds...
...University is so perfected that there are no continuing evils to assail, no grievances so lasting as to call for the use of heavier journalistic ordnance than the daily musketry of the CRIMSON? I must look, it is clear, at the Advocate not as a semi-monthly spokesman of College views, but as a carrier of light waves--of verse, stories, and the occasional essay. If the old Advocate was a bit ponderous, the new Advocate--is it my years?--seems to me not quite heavy enough. But when I come to examine the component parts of this issue, there...
...itself unseriously, and although there are undergraduates who decry it, yet it is certainly a real college organ, and speaks for the majority. Even when its opinions seem hasty or extreme, it often echoes most exactly the state of mind of its constituents. The realization that it is a spokesman naturally increases the sense of responsibility of its board. One benefit has come from this for which it deserves much gratitude: the CRIMSON has almost entirely weeded out the Harvard correspondent who did not blush to send to his Boston or New York paper the most sensational "story" that...
Although one of the younger men in the Senate, Senator Beveridge is considered one of its ablest speakers and legislators. On account of his close relations with the present administration, he is often looked upon as its spokesman in the Senate. He opened the last presidential campaign in 14 states for the Republican party, and took a trip a short time ago to the Philippines to investigate the conditions there...
...here in Cambridge, the home of our poet, tonight, it is the life rather than the poems of Longfellow that I, as the spokesman of his fellow townsmen, am drawn by affectionate memory chiefly to celebrate; more mindful of the sweeter secret which lies within the melody of his verse than of its outward rhythm and rhyme...