Daniel Read (academic)

Daniel Read (June 24, 1805 – October 3, 1878) was an American educator and the sixth president of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

Biography

Daniel Read was born near Marietta, Ohio and completed his education at Ohio University.[1] Next, he studied law and despite being admitted to the bar, he accepted a position as professor at Ohio University in 1825, where he later served as vice-president. Read was a professor of ancient languages at Indiana University from 1843 to 1856. In 1851, he participated in Indiana's Constitutional Convention. He moved to the University of Wisconsin in 1856 and was a professor there until 1866.[2]

Read became president of the University of Missouri in 1867, following the death of John Hiram Lathrop. He was the first to petition the Missouri General Assembly for funding. Read established the College of Education and opened the university to women.[3] He was the first president to live in the president's residence on the David R. Francis Quadrangle. His wife, Alice Brice Read, died in the residence in 1874.[4]

Read resigned from the presidency as of July 1876. He died in 1878 near Keokuk, Iowa.[5]

gollark: And it turns out rails actually cost significantly more than I thought.
gollark: The rail thing isn't actually widely deployed since there are also unlimited `/home` locations.
gollark: I tend to play on lightly modded servers, so we have things like nether iceways and my automatically routed rail network there.
gollark: They're not deliberately making a weird pricing structure. The tokens are just a way to compact the input before it goes into the model. These things are often (partly) based on "transformers", which operate on a sequence of discrete tokens as input/output, and for which time/space complexity scales quadratically with input length. So they can't just give the thing bytes directly or something like that. And for various reasons it wouldn't make sense to give it entire words as inputs. The compromise is to break text into short tokens, which *on average* map to a certain number of words.
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References
  1. "Read Hall". Ohio University.
  2. Wylie, Theophilus A. (1890). Indiana University. Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford. pp. 114–115. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  3. University of Missouri Leaders
  4. Nichols, Josh. "Resident Spirit: The Haunting of Mizzou's Historic Home". Mizzou News. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  5. "C0153 Read, Daniel (1805-1878), Papers, 1866-1876" (PDF). The State Historical Society of Missouri. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
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Preceded by
John Hiram Lathrop		 President of the University of Missouri
1866-1876		 Succeeded by
Samuel Laws
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