University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-01-18
NEW HEAD
WAS ATHLETE OF NOTE
Abbott Lawrence Lowell Won Distinction DOM
in CLASSROOM and As Long-Distance
Runner-His Distinguished Career

10 those WHO are dfuuaih''"
the inner workings OF Harvard admin
i,tration. the selection of Prof. AbDOtt
Lawrence Lowell to the presidency oi
the university comes with no surprise
whatever: for it was known to them
that he embodied beyond question
those indispensable qualities and at
tainments which the appointing au-
thorities have had i'm mind, says a writ
or in the HoSton Transcript. From the
outset he was the obvious choice. and
in the minds of many who We're we'll
qualified to Judge the situation there
appear,d no doubt OF his eventual Sc
lection save for the fact that some
members OF the corporation were known
to be earnest in their desire for dis
tinctlv Young man. and Mr.. Lowell has
now passed his tifty-Second year of life.
The outcome diSclo>eS that this point
was not pressed to any extreme.
The Lowell Family.
Harvard'- new president was born IN
Boston on Dee. T.. 1880. His father
was Augustus Lowell. one of Boston :
kccne>t captains of industry quarter
century ago. Il >hrcwd man "f business
a man who held strong opinions and
was not ,arly in ri>in" I" their de
tense. On his mothers side. Prof. Low
ell i, grandson OF Abbott Lawrence
another Ho-tonian who stood among
her business leaders OF Il half-century
ago and handed to his descendants a
name honorrd for his administrative
acumen. personal integrity and zeal III
the public service.
Classmate of WoOdberry and Wendell
\ RoStoniam by birth and tradition
Prof Lowell i Harvard man by cdu-
cation. having been graduated with the
class Of lS11. The dnnm-lay book of
he university records that he took
highest hnnor- in mathematics and that
at the graduation EXERCISES he was As
signed ',ii-qui-ition." the most non
orablr form of commencement oration
awarded il those day. Among his
classmates were 4 considerable group
al men who have sine" bccom" >tar-
of various orders in the ornament "i
literature Gc"r"a f.. N""'ih"rry. r. :
Martin and Barrett Wendell among
them. Still others. like the late Cover
nor RUSSELL and f. II. Strnl"l. w"r" Il
win distinction in tn" realm "I politics
and diplomacy. But the rank list ol
the class nj 80 shows that. a. an un'
der"raduale scholar. Lowell measured
in promise with the best nf them.
Nor We're hi- activities confined to the
class room alone. A. the records at
test. he was an athlete "f note. and did
signal service for the honor of his class
particularly in track athletics. The tro
py room rolls give testimony. for exam
pie. that on May 10. lS... he Won first
place in the mile run at Beacon Park
covering the distance in what would bc
even today rc'k"ned a> very crcditahle
time; aud upon the same afternoon out
di~ranced his competitors i'll the three
mile run.
There are other athletic achievement
i'm the annals OF Prof. I.owrlfS under
graduate DAYS: but the foregoing are
enough t" prove that his vigorous
frame underwent no >hrivcllin" in col
lr"e wears His interest in the college
journalism nf hi- day was apparently
not pronounced: hut he ;"ok hi- part in
the social activities Of undergraduate
life b,in" Il member of the lia>ty Pud-
ding the Institute and several other
Harvard clubs.
With Mr.. Stimson in Law Practice.
After his "riduation in lS11 Mr.
Lowell entered the Harvard Law School
and having there finished hi- training
with high credit. was admitted Ia the
Massachusetts bar in lS>n. For -rv-
cntern Years thereafter he engaged in
the active practice OF law in Boston
having a. his partner hi- COUSIN Fran