Word: leader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notorious Barber brothers were forcibly taken from the jail at Waverly, Iowa, Friday night, by a mob from Fayette and hanged. The leader of the mob has been arrested...
...Harvard student doesn't really know how great a being he is until he sees it announced as an important fact in the Boston papers that "All Harvard students buy their hats of Blank & Co." As a leader of the styles, the Harvard student stands unrivalled; he may fail to win renown in the paths of learning, he may meet with continual defeat in the field of athletics, but silent testimony to his greatness and importance in the eyes of the world, such as the above, cannot fail to bring a soothing balm to his heart...
...Harvard's example cannot be followed by every college in the United States, and in view of the great interest in the experiment manifested at Amherst, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, there is yet room for hope that the Harvard society may be only the leader of a long line of useful organizations. If several of our leading colleges could maintain societies of this character they could act together in the importation of foreign books and in some other departments of trade, and could accomplish much more than any organization can hope to do single-handed...
...Tariff Legislation of the United States" was given last night by Mr. Taussig before his usual large and attentive audience. The first tariff mentioned was that of 1832, which virtually annulled all the abominations of the tariff of 1828. This tariff was planned by John Quincy Adams, the leader of the Republican party at that time. All the tariffs after this were the results of party feeling. The tariff of 1833 was a compromise act between the two parties, and was arranged by Clay and Calhoun. Its purpose was to bring all duties to twenty per cent. ad valorem. This...
...graduate may become. His leisure occupations are all of a lower stamp. He does not participate in the march of knowledge. He must be aware of his incompetence to judge for himself in the greater questions of our destiny; his part is to be a follower, and not a leader...