Word: bespeak
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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...Stacey Brown '92, fresh from his recent triumph at New Haven, entered vigorously into the spirit of debate. He said he did not rise to bespeak a hearing for any wild or fanciful utopian scheme, but for a gradual and practical adoption of a nationalistic form of government. He dwelt particularly on the injustice of the present form of government, and introduced a bitter comparison between the millionaire and the workingman of today...