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See also:LOWELL, See also:ABBOTT See also:- LAWRENCE
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LAWRENCE (1856— ) , See also:American educationalist, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts on the 13th of See also:December 1856, the See also:great-See also:grandson of See also:John Lowell, the " See also:Columella of New See also:England," and on his See also:mother's See also:side, a See also:grand-son of Abbott Lawrence. He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1877, with highest honours in See also:mathematics; graduated at the Harvard See also:Law School in 188o; and practised law in 188o-1897 in See also:partnership with his See also:cousin, See also:Francis See also:Cabot Lowell (b. 1855), with whom he wrote See also:Transfer of Stock in Corporations (1884). In 1897 he became lecturer and in 1898 See also:professor of See also:government at Harvard, and in 1909 succeeded See also:Charles See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Eliot as See also:president of the university. In the same See also:year he was president of the American See also:Political See also:Science Association. In 1900 he had succeeded his See also:father, See also:Augustus Lowell (183o—1901), as See also:financial See also:head of the Lowell See also:Institute of Boston. He wrote Essays on Government (1889), Governments and Parties in See also:Continental See also:Europe (2 vols., 1896), Colonial See also:Civil Service (1900; with an See also:account by H. See also:Morse See also:Stephens of the See also:East See also:India College at Haileybury), and The Government of England (2 vols., 1908).
His See also:brother, See also:PERCIVAL LOWELL (1855— ), the well-known astronomer, graduated at Harvard in 1876, lived much in See also:Japan between 1883 and 1893, and in 1894 established at Flagstaff, See also:Arizona, the Lowell See also:Observatory, of whose See also:Annals (from 1898) he was editor. In 1902 he became nonsresident professor of See also:astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wrote several books on the Far East, including Choson (1885), The Soul of the Far East (1886), See also:Noto, an Unexplored Corner
of Japan (1891), and Occult Japan (1895), but he is best known for his studies of the See also:planet See also:Mars—he wrote Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1907), and Mars, the See also:Abode of See also:Life (1908)—and his contention that the " canals " of Mars are a sign of life and See also:civilization on that planet (see MARS). He published The See also:Evolution of Worlds in 1909.
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