LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1856 )

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LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1856 ) , American educationalist, was born in Boston,

Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

on the 13th of December 1856, the

great

GREAT

-grandson of John

Lowell

, the " Columella of New England," and on his mother's side, a grand-son of Abbott Lawrence. He graduated at Harvard College in 1877, with highest honours in mathematics; graduated at the Harvard Law School in 188o; and practised law in 188o-1897 in partnership with his

cousin

COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and
familiar
- FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)
abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

, Francis Cabot

Lowell

(b. 1855), with whom he wrote Transfer of Stock in Corporations (1884). In 1897 he became lecturer and in 1898 professor of government at Harvard, and in 1909 succeeded Charles William Eliot as president of the university. In the same year he was president of the American Political Science Association. In 1900 he had succeeded his father,

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Lowell (183o1901), as

financial

FINANCIAL

head of the Lowell Institute of Boston. He wrote Essays on Government (1889), Governments and Parties in Continental Europe (2 vols., 1896), Colonial Civil Service (1900; with an account by H. Morse Stephens of the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

India College at Haileybury), and The Government of England (2 vols., 1908).
His brother, PERCIVAL LOWELL (1855 ), the well-known astronomer, graduated at Harvard in 1876, lived much in Japan between 1883 and 1893, and in 1894 established at Flagstaff, Arizona, the Lowell

Observatory

OBSERVATORY

, of whose Annals (from 1898) he was editor. In 1902 he became nonsresident professor of astronomy at the

Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Institute of Technology. He wrote several books on the Far

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

, including Choson (1885), The Soul of the Far East (1886), Noto, an Unexplored Corner
of Japan (1891), and Occult Japan (1895), but he is best known for his studies of the

planet

PLANET (Gr. ssXavirrns, a wanderer)

Marshe wrote Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1907), and Mars, the Abode of Life (1908)and his contention that the " canals " of Mars are a sign of life and civilization on that

planet

PLANET (Gr. ssXavirrns, a wanderer)

(see MARS). He published The Evolution of Worlds in 1909.

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