The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

takes the year from his duties at Har- yard. Regularly avery seventh year the employed receives q leave of ab- sence for a year with check ample to defray the expenses of foreign tour.
 The Harvard corporation elected Prof. Lowell to the presidency two made. On the afternoon of the day when it was known that the deciding meeting had been held one of his clerks asked his chief if he had heard whether the corporation had chosen him to succeed President Eliot.
 'No, know nothing about it," Prot Lowell answered. Mir. Lowell sent for his clerk and said:
 T want to set myself right with you When you asked me yesterday If had been elected president of Harvard. I said I knew nothing about it. That was true. do not wish you to think I was trying to deceive you for though knew nothing yesterday have since heard great deal about 1t. cannot say any more now. bpe perhaps you understand"
 Upon hfs assumption of the Ogdee of president Mir. Lowell will have to occupy the house In the Harvard yard. but removal to smaller residence will probably mot incommode him. The professor and his wife have never been entertainers of large parties. His dinner guests rarely number more than ten persons and they are usually professional men who like himself. are students in government. Prof. Loweh if the trustee of the Lowell institute, a system of free public lectures supr ported by a fund of about $l.0Q0.0oo which has grown from the 9rlElna. beauest of his grandfather. Eminent foreign scholars are invited to deliver series of lectures for which they are paid si,200. Prof. Lowelfs social ac- tivities are confined largely to enter talning these visitors and the men he has invited to meet them
 He belongs to two clubs The Tav- ern and St. Botolph, whose member ship is composed of artists. scientists and literary men. With some twenty
 five other men he participates in the | meetings of the Wednesday Evening | Club TIT. This organization numbers
 four doctors and four lawyers, while | the others are described as men Of literature and leisure" About twice
 a year is the average of his visits to | the two clubs. Though Prof. Lowelfs
 social standing entities him to admis- sion to the Somerest Club. he never l had any desire to join this exclusive | organization.
 4 Serious DiGdent Personality. Personally the new President fs a serious man, with manner that is hesitating and df1dent. He does not radiate eordiality. but he makes up for this in kindnly courtesy and con- sideration. His life has been devoted to study. During the seventeen years he practiced. law-from 1880 until he was appointed lecturer at Harvard in 1s97--he never argured cause In court. He dealt almost exclusively in legal questions connected with estates in the probate court and the manage ment of investment properties. His first literary effort. Transfers of Stock" fs a handbook on corporations.
 Since 1886 he has spent parts of eight years abroad studying the gov ernments of England and Cintinental Europe. Prof. Lowell's earliest works on this subject were expositions @ the administrative systems on the Conti- nent His latest production. "The Government of England" which has run through three editions and has been translated into French and Ger man, occupied the major portion ot his time for six years. Every sentence of the two volumes of what Prof. Lowell regards as his most important achievement was dieated.
 Abbott Lawrence Lowell married
 young. lie had just completed the | three year course at the Harvard law
 school in two years when he married | Miss Anna Parker Lowell of Boston.
 a cousin. Singular felicity has mark ed his married life. Mrs. Lowell has been her husbands companion in his | travels for research and the sympa- 1 thizer with his ambitions This dig- | niAed scholarly gentleman has not 1 outgrown the tenderness of his youth | ful yeats. for he still uses the endear- ing term Pussy" to his wife. as he has since the days when the two were
 boy and girl lovers.
 Copyright. 1909, by the Associated
 Literary Press.)
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