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'''Leonard Dalton Abbott''' was one of nine people who founded the [[Rand School of Social Research]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907EEDC143AE03ABC4051DFB0668382609EDE Moves To Close the Rand School], [[The New York Times]]</ref> He was also a founding member of the [[Intercollegiate Socialist Society]].

In 1902, Abbott helped convert [[Upton Sinclair]] to socialism.  At an anniversary dinner for the [[League for Industrial Democracy]] he said: "''Upton Sinclair, also a founder, was a second magnet. I had helped to convert him to Socialism, and he, in turn, gave me assignments to visit Columbia, Wesleyan, and other universities in the interest of our ideals''."<ref>[https://archive.org/details/Thirty-fiveYearsOfEducationalPioneeringL.i.d.CelebratesPast_86 Thirty-five years of educational pioneering; L.I.D. celebrates past achievements and asks "Where do we go from here?"]</ref>

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