Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken away from him owing to his Pantheistic views, and on his appeal to the Pope, he was excommunicated. He died about the year 1327. As a thinker, he was too independent for his time, but he was the leader who founded all the later mystic beliefs...
...meeting of the Pierian Sodality last evening it was definitely decided for the first time that Mr. Safford would continue as leader of the orchestra, although he has left the University. Concerts at Wellesley, Radcliffe, possibly Smith, in Newton, Boston and Lowell, were announced as having been arranged for. The following men were elected members: G. C. Ward '98, L. S. Butler '98, W. E. C. Nezro '97, F. L. Beecher '98, F. A. Vaughan '98, G. W. Knoblauch '97, F. L. Waldo '98, F. C. Slee L. S., H. I. Bolles '97, R. B. Carter '98, C. E. Morgan...
Alexander II made himself leader of the movement for the emancipation of the slaves. All that was now lacking was an impulse, which came through the defeat of the Russians in Crimea; the losses around Sebastopol; and the bankruptcy of the empire. Committees were appointed to decide upon reforms and on February 16, 1861, the decree was promulgated. It provided that the peasants were to have all the rights of free cultivators; nobles were to give each peasant between twenty and thirty acres of land, and the government was to remunerate the nobles. The peasants were to repay the government...
George William Curtis was a leader of men. He was such because he was himself a man, a whole man and a true man. He was always, in private as in public, in the home or on the street as upon the rostrum, the knight without peer and without reproach. His fires never paled. What he was before the public, that he was in the grain...
Finally, Jesus pitied the multitude because they had no leader, and He lead then till he died. Never were leaders of men more needed than now. There is no nobler, no more satisfying work than that of helping and guiding mankind - men weary of all professions, however successful they may be; but there is no wearying of the feeling that you have helped some slipping soul to regain lost ground, or have even checked the slipping. This help must be the work of the young men. The older generation, with some bright exceptions, is deaf to any call...