Word: leader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entertainment was a great success. The wit was brilliant, and what is more, largely original. Music was afforded by the following orchestra: Messrs. Elgutter, '87, (leader), Burbank, '87, Lothrop, '87, Whipple, '88, Snow, '85, Carpenter, '88, Morris, '85, Tuttle, '87, Day, '86, Babbitt, '86, and Blake...
...rich and poor, into its treasury. Of course, we must not and do not forget the important agency of our president, elected three years after the new organization,-who, by the by, never would have been elected our president by the old board of overseers,-his increasing vigilance, his leader-like assurance have determined and directed many of the donations. Oftentimes in the progress of Memorial Hall, when I, as treasurer, held back, the president would enumerate my various resources in such a convincing way that I felt for the time embarrassed with riches; and you owe to him, more...
...ideals, the aspirations, and the passions, of the time and country in which he was created. We see in him the struggle of a powerful and independent mind against an iron despotism. He feels that he is intellectually equal to his tyrant; that his true place is as a leader, not as a follower. He sees that, although physical force may be on the other side, the government ought to be for the benefit of the people and not merely for the glory of the autocrat, and that it is his privilege to stand up for these principles, to fight...
...students who possess musical tastes an opportunity of enjoying excellent instruction. A lady, whose name is withheld, presented a considerable sum for the musical education of the college choir. Regular instruction in singing is to be given the choir by Mr. Schnecker, of New York, who is leader of a choir in a prominent New York church. The Princeton students, it is said, sadly mindful of the usual vocal efforts every morning in the chapel, earnestly pray that the New York musician will have success...
...arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts, and observed a respectful silence during the progress of the play. When the curtain was going up, order was called by a rap or two with a gigantic thigh bone welded by the leader of the party...