The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-03
ONCE HEAD OF
|. CALIFORNIA j.
DIES IN VIENNA
DR.. Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Had Been in Poor Health
For Several Years
WAS VISITING HIS SON
Guided Destinies Of Western
School For 20 Years
Held Many Degrees

Berkeley, Calf, May 3.--LR-Dr.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president
emeritus Of the University of Califor.
mia, whose death in Vienna last night
was announced today, was credited
with being the person most respon-
sible for the growth of the new
Berkeley institution.
DR.. Wheeler had been in poor
health for several years. He had
been abroad less than year to be
with his son, Benjamin, connected
with the University of Vienna.
After retirement rs active head Of
the University here. DR.. Wheeler
lived in Berkeley.
The story Of the great physical
growth of the University Of Caliior-
MIA is the story Of the principal
achievement in the life of DIR. Wheel
er, who for 20 years as president
guided the destinies Of the institu-
ton. He was elected president Of
the university while occupying the
chair Of Greek and comparative phil
ology at Cornell in 1899. At that
time the university Of California,
then young among the universities
Of the country, had an enrolment
of 2,439 students. When he retired
as the active head of the university
in 1919 and became president emeri-
tus. the enrolment had reached
nearly 10000.
Received Many HOn0rs
Few men Of scholarly attainment
had been the recipient Of greater
number of academic honors from in-
stitutions of learning than DIT.
Wheeler. Among those which con-
ferred degrees upon him were Brown
University, from which he received
his A. b. in 1875 and his masters
degree three years later; Princeton,
Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hop
kins, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Col
umbia, Colgate, Illinois, Wisconsin,
University Of Kentucky, University
of Athens and University Of Heidel-
berg. f
After he was graduated from
Brown University, DR. Wheeler spent
Several years as instructor ut his
Alma Mater and at Harvard and
Cornell. For two years. 1895 and
1896. he was professor of Greek
literature at the American School
of Classical Studies, Athens, and in
1yO9-l9l9 he was Roosevelt profes-
sor at the University of Berlin.
Great Business Ability
When he assumed his duties as
president Of the University Of Cali
fornia, DR.. Wheeler from the begin
ming displayed his ability as busi-
ness organizer in university affairs
and as director Of education. He
was the personal means through
which many thousands Of dollars
were made available for the univer-
sity through giftss bequcsts or leg
islative appropriation. In his ef-
forts to build up the university and
through it spread intellectual influ-
ence he always had the cooperation
of the student body. He always i'm
pressed upon those under his direc-
tion the necessity of keeping the
mind as well as the body fit and
often told the students that "The
world makes way for the man who
knows where he is going" 1t has
been said Of DR.: Wheeler that had
he entered business he would have
been one Of the leaders of American
industry.
DR.. Wheeler was the author of a
number of scientific and educational
works and contributed largely to die
tionaries and encyclopedias on phil
ology. philosophy and psychology.
He was born at Randolph, Mass,
July Is, 1854, and in June, 1881, mar
ried Amy Webb Of Providence, r. l.