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Lowell (BBOTT LAWRENCE)

A (BBOTT) LAWRENCE.

President of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; born in Boston in 1856 and graduated from Harvard in 1877.

He entered the Harvard Law School and practiced law in Boston from 1880 to 1897. In 1900 he became professor of the science of government at Harvard and in 1909 succeeded Charles W. Eliot as president of the university. President Lowell became a trustee of several great LOWELL institutions of learning in the United States and received degrees from leading colleges at home and abroad.

In addition to numerous smaller works and essays, President Lowell published in A. LAWRENCE LOWELL 1896 (revised 1914) "Governments and Parties of Continental Europe" and in 1908 "The Government of England.

They constitute as a whole the most pro found studies of European government yet made by an American and his "Government of England" is aptly compared with the great work of Bryce on the American government.