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Show Famous Americanf I Educator Is Dead VIENNA, May It (1" I') Benjamin Benja-min I tie Wheeler, president, of the Vniversity of California from IS'.M) UKf, 1 i otl here today after n Illness. He was Tl yi'ars of aia'. HKKKELEY. Calif., May 3 (UP) Dr. Henjnmiu I. Wheeler, 73, president emeritus of the University Univer-sity f California, who died today li;" Vienna, had been Unveliug for tile past year in Europe. He was accompanied abroad by his wife and son- Ht'njaniln, most of the time fqeiit In Spain. Dr. Wheeler was in poor health T.hon he lft California and it was largely in hopes that the trip abroad would Improve his condition that he decided on the tour. The Wheelers were expected to return to Berkeley this Mimjner. It was under Itr. Wheeler's regime that the University of California became the greatest, educational Institution In-stitution in the world in size. Its development was llis life-work, and what he accomplished may be summed sum-med up in the significant fact that when he took charge the student body numbered less than 5.04KJ students. stu-dents. Today it has nearly four times that. Many universities knew him as a lecturer, including Harvard and the University of erlin. lie occupied occu-pied the Roosevelt chair of lectureship lecture-ship at the latter institution. |
