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A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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Born: December 13, 1856

Died: January 6, 1943 (aged 86)

Bio: Abbott Lawrence Lowell was a U.S. educator and legal scholar. He served as President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.

Known for:

The Government of England (1908)
Biography of Percival Lowell (1935)
Essays on Government (1889)

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