Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-14
AFTER ELIOT SUCH ANOTHER
PROF. A. I. LOWELL MAN OF
WIDE ATTAINMENTS.
Exceptional Qualifications as Scholar
and Administrators Worth
Million.

BOSTON. January 1.-the election of
Prof A. Lawrence Lowell of Boston to be
president of Harvard University, as sue
cessor to Dr. Charles w. Eliot next May,
by the corpora ton yesterday, will be form
ally ratified by the board of overseers in
one week.
The corporation includes President Eliot,
Charles Francis Adams, second, treasurer,
and the board of fellows, consisting of Dr.
Henry p Walcott Maj. Henry l.. Hig-
ginson Judge Francis G. Lowell. DR.. Ar
thur L. Cabot and Thomas Nelson Per-
kins.
The selection meets with general ap-
prevail because of Prof Lowells excep-
tional qualifications. He has already shown
rare executive ability as administrators OF
the Lowell estates, as director of the Low
ell Institute and as trustee OF the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology.
In scholarship he has also attained IN
ternational attention because of his writ.
ings on political science. His personal
fortune is rated at more than a million,
and his lineage is the best in New Eng
land. All of these attributes, together
with a good athletic record as student,
made him an obvious candidate for the
position which President Eliot made so
important to American education.
Will Revive Talk of Merger.
The choice undoubtedly will revive the
much-discussed merger of Harvard and
the Massachusetts, Institute OF Tech
nology. This merger was resisted by the
technology alumni. 1t happens however,
that Prof. Lowell is a strong power at the
institute. which was founded by his ances-
tors az was the Lawrence Scientific
School, at Harvard.
1t was the offer of benefactions from
Andrew Carnegie and the use of the mil
lions left by Gordon Mackay that suggest.
ed the cooperation of the two technlcai
schools
half n dozen books bearing on national
and International politics. For two years
he lectured at Harvard and held 1uil
professorship there for a third: For
wears past, when the Likelihood OF Pres
jdent Eliot's abdication was discussed.
Prof. Lowell was invariably named as
his logical successor by those VINO knew
HIM. =,
1915 about two years after his brother.
Percival Lowell. who has won laurels
in astronomy and scholarship His father
Augustus Lowell, married Katherine Big
Glow Lawrence in 1854
She was the youngest daughter OF ADJ
bott Lawrence, then recently returned
from his post at the court of st. James
BY this marriage Augustus Lowell FOUND
himself doubly interested in the cotton
Lawrence and his own father were the
leaders of this industry.
The LowelIs were among the early set
tiers of New England. having come to
Newburyport in 1899 The sons attended
Harvard College and travelled abroad be-
fore choosing life occupation. Augustus
Lowell until within a year or two OF his
death, June %. 1901, was not only a leader
in financial enterprises of Boston ana
New England but he held positions of
authority in direction of the policies Of
the Lowell Institute and the Massachus-
etts Institute of Technology, besides en-
gazing in other unselfish activities which
his modesty kept concealed.
Controls Lowell Institute.
By the will of the founder, John Lowell
IT. the control of the Lowell Institute Is
vested III one man, trustee. and his will
is absolute. A. Lawrence Lowell is at
present the dominating power in the in
stitution and under his direction many
new policies have been followed during
the last few years. Undoubtedly his sue
cessfu inauguration of collegiate courses
OF study free TO the people has strength
ened the favor with which he was al
ready regarded by the oVerSeerS OF Har-
ward University.
He graduated from that institution In
1877 and returned TO study at the law
school In 1880 he began the practice of
law in Boston. With F. ]. Stimson and
f. C. Lowell he formed a partnership in
1891. He had produced Essays in Gov
eminent in 1889: in 1896 Governments
and Parties in Continental Europe" fol-
lowed. From 1897 to 1899 he lectured at
Harvard and became the professor of the
science of government there the following
year.
1t was in 1900 that he appeared as joint
author with Prof. II. Morse Stephens
of Colonial Civil Service" Since then
he has written The Influence of Party
Upon Legislation in America" and The
Government of England"