question: In 1924  E. C. Rhodes became Reader at a university founded in what year?
answer: 1895
context: Title: London School of Economics
  Passage: The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.  Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw for the betterment of society, LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and established its first degree courses under the auspices of the University in 1901.  The LSE has awarded its own degrees since 2008.
  Title: James Hogg (publisher)
  Passage: James Robert Hogg was the son of James Hogg, was born near Edinburgh on 26 March 1806, and educated under the Rev. Thomas Sheriff, who became minister of Fala, in the presbytery of Dalkeith, in 1828, and died in 1836.  On 24 Aug 1818 Hogg was bound apprentice to James Muirhead, printer, Edinburgh.  He subsequently entered the book house attached to the "Caledonian Mercury," where the printing of the seventh edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" had been commenced in 1827, and became reader on the "Caledonian Mercury."
  Title: Charles Ross (historian)
  Passage: Charles Derek Ross (1924 – 1986) was an English historian of the Late Middle Ages.  He was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he completed a doctoral thesis on the baronage in Yorkshire in the early fifteenth century under the supervision of K.B. McFarlane.  He published predominantly on the history of the later medieval English nobility, royalty, and the Wars of the Roses.  Originally teaching alongside Margaret Sharp (daughter of T.F. Tout), he became reader and then Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bristol.  His pupils included Michael Hicks, Anne Crawford and Ralph Griffiths.  He remained at Bristol until his death in 1986, when he was killed by an intruder in his own home.
  Title: E. C. Rhodes
  Passage: Edmund Cecil Rhodes (1892–1964), a statistician, was born in Yorkshire and named after Cecil Rhodes.  He went to Bradford Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated as Wrangler (B-star) in 1914.  In 1924 he became Reader at the London School of Economics where he remained until he retired in 1958.  He wrote for Biometrika and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and Edgeworth called him a "pathbreaker" (see obituary by Grebenik).
  Title: University of Łódź
  Passage: The University of Łódź (Polish: "Uniwersytet Łódzki", Latin: "Universitas Lodziensis") is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of educational institutions functioning in Łódź during the interwar period — the Teacher Training Institute (1921–1928), the Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (1924–1928) and a division of the Free Polish University (1928–1939).  The university provides undergraduate and postgraduate education to more than 47,000 students among 2,600 instructors.  Its international cooperation includes 385 partner institutions from all over the world, and a number of programmes in English as the language of instruction.
  Title: Nick Collins (composer)
  Passage: Nick Collins (born 1975) is a British academic and computer music composer.  From 2006-2013 he lived in Brighton, UK, and ran the music informatics degrees at the University of Sussex.  In 2013 he became Reader at the University of Durham.
  Title: University of Aberdeen
  Passage: The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.  It is an ancient university founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of James IV, King of Scots to establish King's College, making it Scotland's third-oldest university and the fifth-oldest in the English-speaking world.  The university as it is today was formed in 1860 by a merger between King's College and Marischal College, a second university founded in 1593 as a Protestant alternative to the former.  Today, Aberdeen is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is one of two universities in the city, the other being the Robert Gordon University.
  Title: East China Normal University
  Passage: East China Normal University (ECNU) is a comprehensive public research university in Shanghai, China.  It was formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University founded in 1924 and Kwang Hua University (est. 1925) which had its ultimate origins in the St. John's College established in the city in 1879.  Its original role was to train teachers for secondary and higher education, as suggested in the name "Normal", but very soon housed top-class researchers and evolved into an elite research-intensive university.
  Title: Mary Louise Rhodes
  Passage: Mary Louise Rhodes (April 5, 1916 – June 26, 1987) was a petroleum geologist in the United States.  Rhodes was born April 5, 1916 in Clinton, Missouri.  She achieved a bachelor’s degree (1938) and a master’s degree (1939) in Geology at the University of Missouri.  In 1942, Rhodes started her professional career in the production department at the Standard Oil Company of Texas (SOTEX), where she examined well samples, constructed sample logs, and prepared subservience maps and cross-sections.  Later she transferred to the exploration department in 1946, she continued to work in this department for the rest of her career.  Her duties in this department mainly included travelling the world to collect soil samples and collect to find oil reserves.  Throughout her professional career, Rhodes became well-known as a carbonate stratigrapher and an expert on several of the Permian basin rock units.  Rhodes died in June 26, 1987 from cancer in Midland, Texas.
  Title: Rhodes University
  Passage: Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.  It is one of four universities in the province.  Established in 1904, Rhodes University is the province's oldest university, and it is the fifth or sixth oldest South African university in continuous operation, being preceded by the University of the Free State (1904), University of Witwatersrand (1896), Stellenbosch University (1866) and the University of Cape Town (1829).  Rhodes was founded in 1904 as Rhodes University College, named after Cecil Rhodes, through a grant from the Rhodes Trust.  It became a constituent college of the University of South Africa in 1918 before becoming an independent university in 1951.
citations: E. C. Rhodes London School of Economics