THE TECHNOLOGY REVIEW VOLUME III. 1901 BOSTON PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF CLASS SECRETARIES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY H 414 270002 COPYRIGHT, 1901 BY THE ASSOCIATION OF CLASS SECRETARIES GEORGE H. ELLIS, PRINTER, 272 CONGRESS ST., BOSTON By the death of Mr. Augustus Lowell the Institute of Technology has lost a warm friend, a wise counsellor, and a constant and liberal benefactor. He came of an old and well-known Massachusetts family, some of whose representatives, in their successive generations during the last hundred and twenty years, have done eminent public service to the State and the country; while others have been foremost among the men to whose courage, foresight, industry, and skill we owe the origin and prosperity of the manufacturing enterprises of Massachusetts. The Rev. John Lowell, for forty-one years the honored and trusted minister of the third parish in Newbury, was the father of the first Judge John Lowell, one of the three judges appointed by the Continental Congress for the trial of appeals from the Courts of Admiralty, who was afterward commissioned by Washington as judge of the United States District Court of Massachusetts, and promoted by John Adams to be chief justice for this circuit of the short-lived United States Circuit Court, which was abolished by Jefferson's first Congress the year after its creation by the Federalists. Judge Lowell will, perhaps, be longest remembered as the person who secured the in |