LOWELL

a city of Ma achusetts, in Middle sex co., of which it is one of the county seats. It is on the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads, and on the Merrimac river. It includes several villages. The river here runs over the falls, which furnishes immense water power, which is utilized by the industries of the city. Lowell is one of the chief cotton communities in the world. It has also woolen and carpet mills, patent medicines, furniture and hosiery interests. The public institutions include St. Johns’ Hospital, Lowell Hospital, Old Ladies’ Home, St. Peter’s Orphanage, State Normal School, Lowell Textile School, and Rogers Hall School. Among the public buildings are many churches and schools, and a city hail. Pop. 1920, 112,479. LOWELL, A(BBOTT) LAWRENCE (1856), American writer and educator. 6.1. in Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1877, from the Law School in 1880, and practiced in Boston, 188 97. Lecturer at Harvard 1897-9 Profe or of the Science of Governmer 1900, and in 1909 succeeded Char] d|W. Eliot as President of Harvard. Sin 1900 a trustee of the Lowell Institut Member of the American Academy | Arts and Letters, honorary member the Royal Irish Academy. Publication Transfer of Stock in Corporations, wi Francis ©. Lowell, 1884; H ays_ ' Government, 1889; Governments and Pa ties in Continental Hurope, 1896; Colon Service with H. Morse Stephens, 190 The Influence of Parties in Engla and America, 1908; Public Opinion ai Popular Government, 1914.