These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.

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In 1902 Low resigned as president of the university to become the second mayor of the newly consolidated City of New York. McClellan Jr. Low & Brothers which had been founded by his father in New York.

He was a leading municipal reformer during the Progressive Era.