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Show Boston. Jan. IS. Prof. Abnott Law- t Wtj 'KlJuit' rtnee Lowell, who succeeds President VrO fi 'M'TK Charles W. Eliot as president of liar- 'iA&y)y Y$ I vard, is a lawyer of prominence, and '-JixJirJr s jrj a well known writer of political go- htiS veinment. He is 52 years old, and Is "w&rr s a son if Augustus Lowell ( founder of sy Uitr s the Lowell Institute of this city.. His yiW brother, Judge Francis Lowell is If jS judge of the United States Circuit I If court, and another brother, Percival nM ' Lowell, is the well known astronomer. Boston. Jan. IS. Prof. Abnott Lawrence Law-rence Lowell, who succeeds President Charles W. Eliot as president of Harvard, Har-vard, is a lawyer of prominence, and a well known writer of political government. go-vernment. He is 52 years old, and Is a son if Augustus Lowell ( founder of the Lowell Institute of this city.. His brother, Judge Francis Lowell is judge of the United States Circuit court, and another brother, Percival Lowell, is the well known astronomer. Professor Iowell was graduated from Harvard In 1877. and later entered enter-ed and was graduated from tho Harvard Har-vard Iaw- school, From the time he left college until 1S97 he practiced law in Boston, and gained" considerable prominence In his profession. In 1S3 he gave up the practice of law an took up tho professorship of scicno' of government In Harvard, which pc sitlon he now holds. |