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SETH LOW 



lyrics touching upon some phase of nature or 

 life. 



Loveman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but 

 has spent practically all his life in Dalton, Ga., 

 and the South claims him as one of its poets. 



LOW, lo, SETH (1850-1917), an American 

 educator and statesman who effected radical 

 reforms in all departments of city administra- 

 tion as mayor of New York, and who also im- 

 proved the public school system. He was born 

 in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., and was 

 educated at 

 Brooklyn Poly- 

 technic Institute 

 and Columbia 

 College (now 

 Columbia Uni- 

 versity). After 

 being graduated 

 from Columbia 

 with honors he 

 became a member 

 of a tea-import- 

 ing firm headed by his father, but was soon 

 manifesting an active interest in public affairs. 

 He organized and became the first president of 

 the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, was elected 

 mayor of Brooklyn in 1881 on an independent 

 ticket and was reflected in 1883. In 1880 he 

 was chosen president of Columbia College, and 

 during his administration the institution was 

 reorganized, the college wa-3 moved to its 

 present location and' the name changed to Co- 

 lumbia University. Mr. Low donated $1,200,000 

 for the erection of the library of the univer- 

 sity (see COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY). 



In 1899 he was appointed by President Mc- 

 Kinley as delegate to the Universal Peace Con- 

 ference at The Hague. Two years later he was 

 elected mayor of New York City on an anti- 

 Tammany ticket, but was defeated for re- 

 election on a fusion ticket in 1903. In 1906 he 

 bought 196 acres in Westchester County, New 

 York, and engaged in experimental farming. 



LOWELL, lo'el, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1856- 

 ), an American lawyer and educator, best 

 known as president of Harvard University. He 

 was born in Boston, his family being one of 

 the most distinguished in the history of Massa- 

 chusetts. James Russell Lowell was his uncle. 

 He was graduated from Harvard College in 

 1877 and from the Harvard Law School three 

 years later. For seventeen years he practiced 

 law in Boston, achieving a high position in his 

 profession. In 1889 he had published a little 



ABBOTT L. LOWELL 



volume, Essays on Government, which had at- 

 tracted considerable attention, but his standing 

 as a writer on government was established in 

 1897 by his Governments and Parties of Conti- 

 nental Europe, a work which is still standard in 

 its field. 



In the same 

 year he was ap- 

 pointed a special 

 lecturer on gov- 

 ernment in Har- 

 vard University 

 and in 1900 was 

 made a professor. 

 At this time he 



also became trus- VlPf l ' l ^mSSw^ 

 tee of the Lowell 

 Institute in Bos- 

 ton, an institu- 

 tion founded by one of his ancestors for main- 

 taining free public lectures on religion, science, 

 art and literature. Lowell proved himself an 

 able business man and administrator, and it is 

 for this reason, probably, as much as for his 

 reputation as an educator, that he was chosen 

 president of Harvard University in 1909, to suc- 

 ceed Charles William Eliot. In 1910 he was 

 elected a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation 

 for the Advancement of Teaching. 



Besides the works already mentioned, Lowell 

 wrote a number of other books, the most im- 

 portant of which are Colonial Civil Service (in 

 cooperation with H. Morse Stephens), The In- 

 fluence of Party upon Legislation in England 

 and America, and The Government oj England. 

 This last work is to England what James 

 Bryce's American Commonwealth is to the 

 United States; it confirms its author's positi( 

 as one of the leading authorities on the sciei 

 of government. 



LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891), 

 American poet, critic and diplomat, born Feb- 

 ruary 22, 1819, at Elmwood, Cambridge, Mass. 

 From the first he was favored by circumstances 

 favored, but not weakened. His home was 

 beautiful, his family already distinguished in 

 New England history, and his father a well- 

 to-do minister, possessed of "a rare sweetness 

 and charm." From his mother he inherited 

 his wit and his love of poetry. His early edu- 

 cation was not systematic, and was obtained 

 largely in the ways that pleased him best by 

 wide reading and by constant contact with 

 nature and with cultivated people. All his 

 forefathers had been graduated from Harvard. 

 but he neglected every study except literature 





