Word: bespeakes
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...alone, when so many more eloquent are awaiting your call, to recall the grand record of the past or to express in prophetic language the still greater future that lies before this powerful institution. I know there is nothing better for me to bespeak for Harvard University in behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, than that all her sons in the coming time, standing on the vantage ground already gained, shall make their lives as honorable, as conspicuous and beneficent to mankind as those who laid the foundations here, in devotion to learning and pure religion, to sound morals...
...hall, gaze at this and wonder at that, until in sheer exhaustion, we descend to earth again. We pass out thro' the "Reception Room." We look about for the Amherst man, but with a shiver we become conscious of the gaze of a pair of stern eyes that bespeak the man of blue, and remember that we must hurry to the depot if we do not wish to miss the train...
...which its founders need by no means feel ashamed, and the prospects for the coming year warrant us in the belief that good work will be done, both individual and team, before the targets and at the traps. The sport is one in which many are interested, and we bespeak for the club the support of all our students. To night's meeting ought especially to be attended by eighty-eight, for a freshman director is to be chosen, an officer who ought to represent most thoroughly the shooting interest of the class...
...congratulate Prof. Boyesen on the success of his play, and bespeak for it a long run. That the stage is a legitimate and profitable field for the pens of the literary men of our time and country cannot be doubted, and any play, with real literary merit, as well as the merit of action, tends to raise the tone of the stage and thereby benefits society...
...would bespeak the continuance of the same cordial relations between the corporation of the university and the city as now exist...