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Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States on December 13, 1856.
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Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States on December 13, 1856.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1877 and from Harvard Law School in 1880.
After studies he practiced law in Boston. Appointed to the Harvard faculty in 1897, Lowell served as president of the university from 1909 to 1933. During his presidency the free elective system, established by his predecessor, Charles W. Eliot, was modified by the introduction of more systematic courses of study, general examinations, and the tutorial system. These improvements culminated in the building of the Harvard houses and development of the house plan of undergraduate instruction.
Lowell also established and endowed the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, for the purpose of encouraging the advancement of learning through the granting of fellowships to graduate students of high promise. Lowell's policies exerted an important influence on the development of higher education in America.
He also became head of the Motion Picture Research Council, a group established to promote studies of the social values of motion pictures. He published frequently in such periodicals as The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs.
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Lowell worried about the role of racial and ethnic minorities in American society. He became an honorary vice-president of the Immigration Restriction League, an organization that promoted literacy tests and tightened enforcement of immigration laws.
Lowell was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1897. In 1899 Lowell was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Lowell is remembered as well for a donation of one million dollars to help found the Harvard Society of Fellows.
On June 19, 1879, while a law student, he married a distant cousin, Anna Parker Lowell in King's Chapel in Boston.