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  Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lowells, a prominent Boston family, affectionately named this estate Sevenels for the fact that there were 7 members in their family.
Lowell was also involved in the execution of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, which many later observers have seen as a miscarriage of justice.
Lowell opposed Brandeis despite the fact that he was regarded as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the nation, having graduated from Harvard Law School with the strongest academic record in the school's history and having been instrumental in the founding of the Harvard Law Review.
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 Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis Cabot Lowell, businessman and co-founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
Percival Lowell, astronomer and founder of Lowell Observatory
Lowell High School, Lowell, MA Lowell High School, Lowell, OR Lowell High School, San Francisco, CA Lowell House, Cambridge, MA Lowell Institute, Boston, MA Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Lowell Institute - LoveToKnow 1911
LOWELL INSTITUTE, an educational foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., providing for free public lectures, and endowed by the bequest of $237,000 left by John Lowell, junior, who died in 1836.
of my grandfather John Lowell, provided there is one who is competent to hold the office of trustee, and of the name of Lowell," the sole trustee so appointed having the entire selection of the lecturers and the subjects of lectures.
The first trustee was John Lowell junior's cousin, John Amory Lowell, who administered the trust for more than forty years, and was succeeded in 1881 by his son, Augustus Lowell, who in turn was succeeded in 1900 by his son Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who in 1909 became president of Harvard University.
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 About Lowell Observatory - Percival Lowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Percival Lowell was born in 1855 in Boston.
Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1876 with distinction in mathematics.
Lowell concluded that the bright areas were deserts and the dark were patches of vegetation.
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 Charles Russell Lowell - LoveToKnow 1911
CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL (1835-1864), American soldier, was born on the and of January 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts.
His mother, Anna Cabot Jackson Lowell (1819-1874), a daughter of Patrick Tracy Jackson, married Charles Russell Lowell, a brother of James Russell Lowell; she wrote verse and books on education.
Her son graduated at Harvard in 1854, worked in an iron mill in Trenton, New Jersey, for a few months in 1855, spent two years abroad, and in 1858-1860 was local treasurer of the Burlington and Missouri river railroad.
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 AllRefer.com - Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Harvard (B.A., 1877; LL.B., 1880); brother of Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell.
To combat specialization, he introduced (1914) a modification of the elective system, established (1917) the requirement of a general examination in their major subject for candidates for the bachelor's degree, and instituted (1917) the tutorial system for upper classmen.
Lowell is remembered for his spirited defense of academic freedom and for his advocacy of American participation in the League of Nations.
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 Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the Harvard University House System
Lowell’s sympathy with the seniors of 1911 was not merely official; it was also personal and reminiscent.
At least, Lowell insisted that his name was used to signify all the Lowells who have served the University, from the first to become a fellow down to his brother-in-law, Francis Cabot Lowell, and himself.
What Lowell had dreamed at least as early as 1887, he had now brought to pass in the College; but the joy of accomplishment was gone.
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 Abbott Lawrence Lowell Biography / Biography of Abbott Lawrence Lowell Biography
On Dec. 13, 1856, Abbott Lawrence Lowell was born into one of the leading families of Boston society.
Lowell insisted on the value of careful observation of actual political practice rather than theoretical speculation, and his studies convinced him that political parties played a greater role in government than did constitutional forms.
Lowell was active in university affairs and, on the retirement of Charles W. Eliot in 1909, was chosen president of Harvard, serving until 1933.
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 Lowell found Swiftly
Lowell Observatory is a privately owned astronomical research institution located in Flagstaff, Arizona.
This is an OfficialPage/Publication of the University of Massachusetts Lowell...
Lowell is in constant disagreement with his three...
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 Discovery of Pluto Reaches 75th Anniversary - Lowell Observatory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
While Dr. Lowell did not live to see the discovery of Pluto, the Observatory made the official announcement of the discovery on Percival Lowell's birth date, March 13, 1930.
In addition to its Pluto research, Lowell Observatory has ongoing and long-term programs to identify near-Earth asteroids, survey a region of the solar system beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt, conduct decades-long research on the sun and sun-like stars, study comets, search for extrasolar planets, and pursue a variety of astrophysical investigations.
Lowell Observatory's mission is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach programs to bring the results of astronomical research to the general public.
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 Abbott Lawrence Lowell on Dormitories and College Life
The creation of a system of residential colleges at Harvard University by Abbott Lawrence Lowell in the 1930s was the culmination of a long chain of discussion and debate about Harvard administrative organization reaching back into the Nineteenth Century.
Among the important documents from this early period were the 1894 essay by Frank Bolles on dividing Harvard College, and this 1904 essay by Lowell, “Dormitories and College Life.” What follows is a complete transcription of “Dormitories and College Life,” first published in the
I shall be told that I am struggling against the spirit of the age, which is materialistic and plutocratic.
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 AllRefer.com - Amy Lowell (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Brookline, Mass., privately educated; sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
Lowell's own poetry is particularly notable for its rendering of sensuous images.
Her best-known poems are "Patterns" and "Lilacs." Lowell's perceptive and dynamic criticism includes Six French Poets (1915) and Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1917).
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 Who Made America? | Innovators | Francis Cabot Lowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Like Samuel Slater before him, Lowell was inspired to create his own manufacturing enterprise in the United States.
Another of Lowell's innovations was in hiring young farm girls to work in the mill.
In 1822, Lowell's partners named a new mill town on the Merrimack River, Lowell, after their visionary leader.
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 Percival Lowell
Harvard, 1876; brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 1856–1943, American educator, president of Harvard (1909–33),...
Lowell Observatory - Lowell Observatory, astronomical observatory located in Flagstaff, Ariz.; it was founded in 1894 by...
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 LOWELL INSTITUTE - Online Information article about LOWELL INSTITUTE
Diary (Boston, 1897).of my grandfather John Lowell, provided there is one who is competent to hold the See also:
Augustus Lowell, who in turn was succeeded in 1900 by his son See also:
Smith, History of the Lowell Institute (Boston, 1898).
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 Lowell - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Lowell, city, Middlesex County, northeastern Massachusetts, at the confluence of the Concord and Merrimack rivers; incorporated 1836.
Lowell, Amy Lawrence (1874-1925), American poet and critic, one of the leaders of the imagist school (Imagism).
James B. Francis College of Engineering, Middlesex Community College - Lowell Campus, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, College of Arts and...
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 History Channel Search Results
A cousin of the distinguished intellectuals Amy, Percival, and Abbott Lowell, he was born March 1, 1917, in Boston and educated at Harvard University and Kenyon College.
Lowell suffered religious doubt and temporarily converted to Roman Catholicism, was briefly imprisoned for refusing to serve in World War II, spent time in a mental hospital, and took part in later antiwar and civil rights movements.
Lowell’s trilogy of plays, The Old Glory (1965), is a historical survey of American culture.
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 Bigelow, Katherine (6) = kat69521.htm
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, b 13 Dec 1856; d 06 Jan 1943; m 1879 Anna Parker Lowell; no issue.
Abbott Lawrence was the 5th son of Samuel and Susanna Lawrence.
Abbott Lawrence b.1828 grad Harvard Univ 1849 m.
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 Lowell Abbott Lawrence - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Lowell Abbott Lawrence - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (1856-1943), American educator, born in Boston, and educated at Harvard University and Harvard Law School.
Lawrence (Massachusetts), city in Essex County, northeastern Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River, near Lowell.
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 Elizabeth Lowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943), an educator, historian and Boston Brahmin, was the President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.
In 1900 he had succeeded his father, Augustus Lowell, as financial head of the Lowell Institute of Boston.
Lowells predecessor, Charles W. Eliot, had replaced the single standardized undergraduate course with a smorgasbord of electives; Lowell began encouraging (and eventually requiring) students to concentrate the bulk of their studies in some academic field or other.
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 Cummins
Abbott Lowell CUMMINGS, Ph.D.); Jonathan married first Hannah TYKLER, and second Sarah GLAZIER; Samuel married his first cousin Sarah CUMMINS (daughter of Stephen CUMMINS); Sybil married Broadstreet TYLER; and probably Gideon married Ruth GLAZIER.
Abbott Lowell Cumings reports his death date as Apr. 18, 1762, with reference to the bible record quoted previously in the narrative for his father, but it may have been that the bible passed to his son Reuben by Jacob CUMMINS after writing his will and in anticipation of his impending death.
He lived at the corner of Main and Sutton roads at Oxford, Worcester Co., MA, on a farm in 1730, and in the north part of town for a short period until he purchased a sawmill in 1736.
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 Isaac Cummings Family Association
The results fit well with other research done by Abbott Lowell Cummings and Peter C. Nutt, and John Plummer.
A court record in 1631 in Mistley recorded the theft of goats belonging to Isaac Cummyn and Abr.
Using the data of Abbott Lowell Cummings the family of John of Tolleshunt D'Arcy can be assembled as follows using the Easthorpe baptism for the first John and estimated dates for Rebecca and their marriage.
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 Lowell, Abbott Lawrence - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 1856-1943, American educator, president of Harvard (1909-33), b.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Lowell, Abbott Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE [Lowell, Abbott Lawrence] 1856-1943, American educator, president of Harvard (1909-33), b.
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PERCIVAL LOWELL (1855—), the well-known astronomer, graduated at Harvard in 1876, lived much in See also:
Japan between 1883 and 1893, and in 1894 established at Flagstaff, See also:
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 Find in a Library: Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1856-1943.
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 Historic Preservation: Preservation Georgia Online — October 22 - 26, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The 2002 guidelines and application form are available online at http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/2002grants.htm For more information about ABPP grants, or to receive paper copies of the guidelines and application, please contact Glenn Williams, ABPP Grants Manager, at 202/ 343-9563 or glenn_williams@nps.gov.
The Vernacular Architecture Forum is soliciting nominations for the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award for 2002, awarded annually for the best book in North American Vernacular Architecture Studies.
Established in 1982, the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award is presented annually to the publication deemed by a jury of VAF members to have made the most significant contribution to the study of the vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes of North America.
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 Art Poster Print - Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Artist: TIME Magazine- Poster Size: 14 X 11 - SHOP.COM
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 Abbott Lowell Cummings Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
In a rich blend of architectural and social history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs some of our nation's first houses.
This is a splendid story of innovations, of restless, migratory people and their architectural and social responses to their environment.
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 Amazon.com: Bed Hangings: A Treatise on Fabrics and Styles in the Curtaining of Beds, 1650-1850: Books: Abbott Lowell ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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A classic work on early American examples of this domestic art is once again available with a new introduction and updated bibliography.
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