Lowell Institute

The Lowell Institute is a United States educational foundation located in Boston, Massachusetts, providing both free public lectures, and also advanced lectures.[1] It was endowed by a bequest of $250,000 left by John Lowell Jr.,[2] who died in 1836. The Institute began work in the winter of 1839/40,[3] and an inaugural lecture was given on December 31, 1839, by Edward Everett.[4]

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  2. ^ Elias Nason (1874). A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts. Boston: B.B. Russell. p. 103.
  3. ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Lowell, John, American merchant and philanthropist" . Encyclopedia Americana.
  4. ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Lowell Institute" . Encyclopedia Americana.