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See also:LOWELL See also:INSTITUTE , an educational See also:foundation in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., providing for See also:free public lectures, and endowed by the See also:bequest of $237,000 See also:left by See also:John Lowell, junior, who died in 1836. Under the terms of his will so% of the See also:net income was to be added to the See also:principal, which in 1909 was over a million dollars. None of the fund was to be invested in a See also:building for the lectures; the trustees of the Boston See also:Athenaeum were made visitors of the fund; but the trustee of the fund is authorized to select his own successor, although in doing so he must " always choose in preference to all others some male descendant
' See D. D. See also:Addison, See also:Lucy Larcom; See also:Life, Letters and See also:Diary (Boston, 1897).of my grandfather John Lowell, provided there is one who is competent to hold the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of trustee, and of the name of Lowell," the See also:sole trustee so appointed having the entire selection of the lecturers and the subjects of lectures. The first trustee was John Lowell junior's See also:cousin, John See also:Amory Lowell, who administered the See also:trust for more than See also:forty years, and was succeeded in 1881 by his son, See also:Augustus Lowell, who in turn was succeeded in 1900 by his son See also:Abbott See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence Lowell, who in 1909 became See also:president of Harvard University.
The founder provided for two kinds of lectures, one popular, " and the other more abstruse, erudite and particular." The popular lectures have taken the See also:form of courses usually ranging from See also:half a dozen to a dozen lectures, and covering almost every subject. The fees have always been large, and many of the most eminent men in See also:America and See also:Europe have lectured there. A large number of books have been published which consist of those lectures or have been based upon them. As to the advanced lectures, the founder seems to have had in view what is now called university See also:extension, and in this he was far in advance of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; but he did not realize that such See also:work can only be done effectively in connexion with a See also:great school. In pursuance of this See also:provision public instruction of various kinds has been given from time to time by the Institute. The first freehand See also:drawing in Boston was taught there, but was given up when the public See also:schools undertook it. In the same way a school of See also:practical See also:design was carried on for many years, but finally, in 1903, was transferred to the Museum of See also:Fine Arts. Instruction for working men was given at the See also:Wells Memorial Institute until 1908, when the See also:Franklin Foundation took up the work. A Teachers' School of See also:Science is maintained in co-operation with the Natural See also:History Society. For many years advanced courses of lectures were given by the professors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but in 1904 they were superseded by an evening school for See also:industrial foremen. In 1907, under the See also:title of " Collegiate Courses," a number of the elementary courses in Harvard University were offered free to the public under the same conditions of study and examination as in the university.
For the earlier See also:period, see Harriett See also:Knight See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, History of the Lowell Institute (Boston, 1898).
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