The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-01

the year from his duties at Harvard. Regularly every seventh year, the em- ploye receives a leave of absence Tor year with a check ample to deffay the expenses of a foreign tour
 The Harvard corporation elected Pro lessor Lowell to the presidency two days before the announcement was made. Oh the afternoon of the day when 1t was known that the deciding meeting had been held one of the clerks asked his chief if he had heard whether the corporation had chosen him to succeed President Eliot
 No, know nothing aoout it. Pro lessor Lowell answered.
 Late in the afternoon the next day MT. Lowell sent for his clerk and said:
 .I want to set myself right with you. When you asked me yesterday fl had been elected president of Harvard, said I knew nothing about it. That was true. I do not wish you to think l was trying to deceive you, for though l knew noth- ing yesterday, have since heard a great deal about it. l cannot say any more now, but perhaps you understand
 Upon his assumption of the office of president Mir Lowell will have to occupy the house in the Harvard yard, but re- moval to a smaller residence will prob ably not incommode him. The professor and his wife have never been entertain CTS of large parties. His dinner guests rarely number more than 10 persons, and they are usually professional men who, like himself, are students in government. Professor Lowell is the trustee of the Lowell institute, a system of free public | lectures supported by a fund of about | $1, ,000, ,OO0 which has grown from the orig l inal beuuest of his grandfather. Eminent foreign scholars are invited to deliver | series of lectures for which they are | paid $12O0. Professor Lowells social ac- 1 tivities are confined largely to entertain ing these visitors and the men he has | invited to meet them
 He belongs to two clubs. The Tavern | and St. Botolph, whose membership IS composed of artists, scientists and liter arv men, With some % other men he participates in the meetings of the l Wednesday Evening club of lfIA This organization numbers four doctors and I four lawyers, while the others are de- scribed as linen of literature and lei sure" About twice a year Is the average of his visits to the two clubs. Though 1 Professor Lowell's social standing entities l him to admission to the Somerset club, | he never had any desire to join this ex- elusive organization.
 A Serious Diffident Personality. l Personally the new president is a se- l rious man. with a manner that is hesi- l tating and diffident. He does not radiate l cordiality. but he makes up for this in | kindly courtesy and consideration. HIS 1 life has been devoted to study. During the 1T years he practiced law-from 1880 l until he was appointed lecturer at liar yard in 1S97-he never argued a cause in court He dealt almost exclusively in legal questions connected with estates in 1 the probate court and the management of investment properties His first liter ary effort, Transfers of stock, Is | handbook on corporations
 Since 1886 he has spent parts Of eight years abroad studying the governments of England and continental Europe Pro | lessor Lowelrs earliest works on this subject were expositons on the continent. His latest production, "The Government l of England" which has run through three editions and has been translated into French and German, occupied the maJor portion of his time for six years. Every sentence of the two volumes Of what Professor Lowell regards as his most im- portant achievement was dictated Abbott Lawrence Lowell married young. He has lust completed the three year course at the Harvard law school In two wears when he married Miss Anna Parker 1 Lowell of Boston, a cousin Singular re- | licitv has marked his married ife, TOT Mrs Lowell has been her husbands com panion in his travels for research ana the 1 sympathizer with his ambitions. ms dignified scholarly gentleman has not out crown the tenderness of his youthful years for he still uses the endearing term Pussy to his wife, as he has since the days when the two were boy and girl | lovers. "
 (Copvright. 1909, by the Associated Llt'
 erary Press.)