[LL.D.]. American educator, born in Scituate, RI, on the 7th of January 1829. He graduated at Brown University in 1849, spent four years in Europe, traveling and studying, and on his return became professor of modern languages in his alma mater. From 1860 to 1866 he was editor of the Providence Daily Journal, when he became president of the University of Vermont. In 1871 he was called to the presidency of the University of Michigan, which office he has continued to fill. In 1880 he received leave of absence, in order to accept the position of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to China, with a commission to procure a revision of the treaties between the United States and China. He returned in 1881, after eighteen months spent in this important work, to resume his educational duties. He was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
