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...England in the Napoleonic Era," Professor Abbott, Emerson...
...same news that came to Princeton last year came last week to Harvard. Its president resigned. Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell has been on the job since 1909. He will be 76 on Dec. 13. Aware that the Fellows of Harvard College had quietly done the same a fortnight ago, the Board of Overseers accepted his resignation, effective when a successor is chosen and ready to take office. The question of a successor was, unlike the same question at Princeton, not without likely answers. Dr. Lowell has long been suspected of having a candidate in mind. In any discussions...
...Abbott Lawrence, grandfather of President Lowell, was the American ambassador to England from 1849 until 1852, which fact may be the cause of the rumor. Also to be taken into account is the fact that the late President Eliot was offered the post...
...many fields of endeavor to which Dr. Abbott Lawrence has for half a century dedicated his talents leave to commentators a generous variety of laurels and bays to bestow...
...resourceful and unyielding fighter, Abbott Lawrence Lowell is dominantly a gentlemen of intact and abiding convictions. Opposition to his administrative projects or personal beliefs has but served to strengthen his purpose. A house plan ridiculed became to him a house plan imperatively demanding realization and justification. Abuse of Harvard's war time German department and staff appealed to his redeeming New England liberalism as the deciding factor in their continuance and protection. To be net against the course of his administration has invariably been to be set against an irresistible force...