lowell

Cities like Lowell and Worcester are very depressed now because they lost what made them big - manufacturing.

For example, astronomers from Schiaparelli to Lowell said there were canals on the surface of Mars.

Which suggests other reasons why picking the Lowell factories as the analysis point is somewhat misguided.

The one which says this: Conditions in the Lowell mills were severe by modern American standards.

Many of the Lowell girls came from family farms that had too many mouths to feed.

It appears that Boston and satellite cities like Lowell and Worcester have reversed urban decline.

Even further back in time, Percival Lowell believed there were canals on Mars.

A few would come back for Lowell High School (magnet high school).

High schools aren't quite as good, but they aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be (it's not just Lowell - check out the data.

Even that has an old history, though - Francis Cabot Lowell started the industrial revolution in America by going to work for an English textile manufacturer for 2 years.

(Francis Cabot Lowell went over to England for two years, worked in the textile mills, memorized all the details of their workings, and opened the first textile mill in the U.

My undergrad degree was in Music/Sound Technology, but the Music Program at UMass Lowell where I went is quite technical, and actually prepared me pretty well for the job market (unlike most Undergrad Music Programs IMO).

Lowell told his admissions officers to elicit information about the “character” of candidates...provide a photograph...personal essays, demonstrating their aptitude for leadership, and list their extracurricular activities.

So, you go back to the mid-nineteenth century and these so-called "factory girls," young girls working in the Lowell [Massachusetts] mills, were reading serious contemporary literature.

Alexander, Lowell McAdam, Roger Vinson".

Lowell told his admissions officers to elicit information about the "character" of candidates from "persons who know the applicants well," and so the letter of reference became mandatory.

The discovery of life now would be so much less shocking than the impact of Lowell's work, no?

I don't recall any public high schools being very good, except for Lowell, and that's a charter school.

The known-good public schools (e.g., Lowell) are magnets that are extremely competitive admissions wise.