Low
Low names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Low SETH, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SETH, an American educator; was educated at the Charterhouse and born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1850; at Oxford. In April, 1642, he was comwas graduated at Columbia University mitted to the Gatehouse at Westminster in 1870; made a member of his father's for presenting to the House of Commons mercantile firm in 1875; mayor of Brooka petition from the royalists of Kent lyn in 1881-1885; and was elected pres- "for the restoring the king to his rights, ident of Columbia University in 1890. and for settling the government," and In 1895 he erected for that institution a was only released on bail of $200,000. grand university library at a cost of In 1646 he took part in the siege of Dun- $1,175,000. In honor of President Low's term of R. R. Hitt, deceased. In 1916 generosity and in accord with his desire, he was elected Governor of Illinois on the trustees of Columbia founded 12 the Republican ticket. He was one of scholarships in the university for Brookthe leading candidates for the Republilyn boys and the same number in Barcan nomination for the presidency in nard College for Brooklyn girls, and 1920. also agreed to found eight annual schol-
Low A(LFRED) MAURICE
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
A(LFRED) MAURICE, an anti - slavery, though Anglo - American journalist and writer; immediate and uncon- born in London in 1860. He was educated His articles created at King's College, London, and in Ausgreat excitement, and when his office tria. Sometime American correspondent was finally wrecked by a mob in 1836 of the London "Morning Post," and from he decided to remove his paper to Alton, 1896 wrote on American topics for the "National Review," London. In 1900 he Ill. Here three presses were destroyed investigated British labor conditions and by mobs. The fourth press was placed in 1903 was appointed by the United in a stone warehouse, which Lovejoy and States Government to investigate British some of his friends defended. The house trade unions and industries. Author of was surrounded by a mob and the roof "The Supreme Surrender" (1901); "Proset on fire. In attempting a sally Lovetection in the United States" (1904); joy was shot and killed, Nov. 7, 1837. "American Life in Town and Country" A monument was erected to his memory, (1905); "Short History of Labor Legislation in Great Britain" (1907); "Amer-
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's, writing in 1921, still describes Seth Low as the sitting-style figure of Columbia's presidency and its library-builder, without noting that he had left the post in 1901, served as mayor of a consolidated New York City in 1902-03, and died in 1916. The Low Memorial Library he gave in 1895 — Collier's price of $1,175,000 — still dominates Columbia's Morningside Heights campus, but it stopped being the university's working library in 1934, when the collections moved to Butler Library; it now houses administrative offices and the visitors' centre. Low's name survives chiefly on that building rather than in the reputation as reformer and educator that the 1921 entry assumes. A. Maurice Low, the journalist listed alongside him, kept writing on American affairs until his death and is now little read.
Written for this edition, 2026.