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LOW, SETH (1850- )

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SETH
SETH (Egyptian Set, Sth~~~{{{or Sts)
SETH (I* according to Dillmann, " setting " or " slip "; Septuagint, Philo and New Testament, fie, but r Chron. i. 1 Ells in A ; Josephus, EfjOor, Vulg. Seth)
SETH (1850- ) , See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

ADMINISTRATOR

administrator and educationist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

BROOKLYN

Brooklyn, New See also:

York, on the 18th of See also:

JANUARY

January 185o. He studied in the See also:

POLYTECHNIC (Gr. aroWus, many, and rEXvn, an art)

Polytechnic See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute of Brooklyn and in See also:

COLUMBIA

Columbia University, where he graduated in 1870. He became a clerk (187o) and then a partner (1875) in his See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea and See also:

SILK

silk-importing See also:

house, A. A. Low & See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

Brothers, which went out of business in 1888. In 1878 he organized, and became See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of, the Brooklyn See also:

BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

Bureau of Charities. In 1882-1886 he was See also:

mayor of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Brooklyn, being twice elected on an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)

ticket; and by his See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of his 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 he demonstrated that a rigid " merit " See also:

CIVIL

civil-service See also:

SYSTEM

system was practicable—in See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1884 the first municipal civil-service rules in the See also:

UNITED

United Service were adopted in Brooklyn. He was president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901, and did much for it by his business administration, his liberality (he gave S1,000,000 for the erection of a library) and his especial See also:

INTEREST

interest in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

POLITICAL

Political See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science. In his See also:

TERM

term Columbia became a well-organized and closely-knit university. Its See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official name was changed from Columbia See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College to Columbia University. It was removed to a new site on Morningside Heights, New York City. The New York College for the Training of Teachers became its Teachers' College of Columbia; a See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

Faculty of Pure Science was added; the Medical School gave up its See also:

SEPARATE

separate See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter to become an integral See also:

PART

part of the university; See also:

Barnard College became more closely allied with the university; relations were entered into between the university and the See also:

General, See also:

Union and Jewish theological seminaries of New York City and with See also:

Cooper Union, the See also:

METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

Metropolitan Museum of See also:

FINE

Fine Arts and the American Museum of Natural See also:

HISTORY

History; and its faculty and student See also:

BODY

body became less See also:

LOCAL

local in See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character.

Dr Low was a delegate to the See also:

HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague See also:

Peace See also:

CONFERENCE

Conference in 1899. He was prominent among those who brought about the chartering of Greater New York in 1897, and in this See also:

YEAR

year was an unsuccessful See also:

CANDIDATE

candidate, on an independent ticket, for mayor of New York City; in 'goo, on a See also:

FUSION

fusion ticket, he was elected mayor and served in 1901-1903.

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