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US educator, lawyer, and political scientist
president of Harvard University 1909-1933
introduced residential house system at Harvard University
chairman and eponym of three-member Lowell Commission, appointed by Alvan Fuller 1927 to examine fairness of Sacco and Vanzetti trial and advise Fuller on suitability of clemency
wrote autobiography "What a College President Has Learned" 1938
brother of Amy Lowell and Percival Lowell
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