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Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916) was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885, the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901, a diplomatic representative of the United States, and the mayor of New York City from 1902 to 1903.
Seth Low (1850–1916) New York City Leader University President 1890–1901. Low saw as clearly as anyone the deep connection between Columbia and New York City. From 1881 to 1885, while in his early 30s, he served as mayor of Brooklyn, which at the time was the third-largest city in the United States.
Because of the demographic makeup of the Seth Low Junior College student body—it was predominantly Jewish -- and the restrictions placed upon them once they transferred to the Morningside campus, some observers, including Asimov, took its real purpose to be keeping Jews away from Columbia.
Seth Low was an American municipal reformer, university builder, and philanthropist who, during his tenure as president of Columbia College (renamed Columbia University in 1896), transformed it from a small college on a crowded city block into a large university with an impressive campus on.
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Seth Low Junior College, which existed from 1928 to 1938, was one of Columbia’s many attempts to deal with a changing student population that they felt was contaminating its pristine,...
Seth Low, 1850-1916 Term of Office: 1890-1901. Columbia College trustee and former Brooklyn Mayor, Seth Low was elected Columbia's eleventh president, leading the College through further expansion and change.
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Seth Low eventually served as the mayor of Brooklyn and then became the president of Columbia University. And it was the money that he inherited from his father's China-trade fortune that built the great Low Library at Columbia University.
