Word: leader
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...this University not only as the donor of the Union and of Soldiers Field, but as a strong factor in a great number of ways at Harvard. He has for some time been of great assistance in the maintenance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has long been a leader in every public-spirited movement in Boston...
...Washington has been principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution since 1881, and is the leader in the movement for the industrial education of the negro of the South today. He is a well known writer and speaker on racial and educational subjects, two of his best known books being "Up from Slavery" and "The Story of My Life and Work...
...Montague, who holds degrees from Richmond College and the University of Virginia, is a practicing lawyer at Richmond. He was attorney general of Virginia from 1898 to 1902, and from 1902 to 1906 was governor of the state. As governor, he was a leader in Southern educational movements, and is now a member of the Southern Education Board. He introduced the legalized primary in Virginia, and has always been a leader in political reform...
...officers of the Freshman mandelin club were also elected last night, as follows: president, C. Macleod; secretary, W. W. Bodine; leader, R. H. Hutchinson...
Alexis Aladyin, the last speaker, best known as the leader of the peasant party in the last Russian Duma, has a very great influence over the entire industrial and farmers' party, and is one of the strongest revolutionary forces in Russia. Though born a peasant, he is well educated, speaking English, French, and Italian fluently. He has often visited London, and has given talks in Whitechapel, the heart of the laboring quarter. In 1905 he returned to St. Petersburg, and was asked by the peasants to run for deputy in the Duma. On receiving information that he was being watched...