Show I Educator Dies w BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER a 1 California Ex-California IT U U President Dead B. B I. I Wheeler Succumbs While on To Tour r of Europe LO LONDON DON M Ma May y 3 Ull United ted Pr Press ss An Exchange Telegraph d dispatch An A from fron Vienna sail ail Benjamin Y PT cl r J. J r years pr si- si 1 1 li I lJ nia died today after alter a a. long illness He tIe was was was' among among the the- foremost foremost of schol scholars American r ra i Benjamin e Ide e ler asborn born bornat at Ra Randolph dol h Ma Mass s. s j July iy 15 5 1854 1854 lie He was educated at Brown Bro university university sity anc and at Heidelberg and taught at Brown Brown Harvard and Cornell CorneIl He le was president of the University of C California from July 18 18 1899 to ta July 15 1919 He wrote th the Greek Gree Noun Accent Analogy Accent Analogy In Language Introduction bf Of the History of Language DI and Immortality Immortal Immortal- ity Org Organization of III Higher her Education Education Education tion in the United States Life Lite of ot 1 Alexander th the Great an and and e In America I I BERKELEY Ca Cal May 3 United Press Press Dr Benjamin Ide Wl Wheeler eeler 73 president emeritus of tb the University University Uni Uni- of California who died to today today today to- to day In Vienna had been traveling for the past pat ye year r in Europe He lie wag was accompanied abroad by his wife and son non on Benjamin most of the time spent In Spain IN POOR HEALTH Dr Wheeler was in poor health when he left California and It was largely largely- in hopes that the trip abroad would Improve his condition that he decided on on the tour The Wheelers Vh were expected to r return turn to Berkeley this It was u under deI Dr Wheelers Wheeler's regime that the University of California became the greatest educational nat Institution in institution institution In- In In the world in size Its development was his work and what He lie accomplished ma may be summed up In the significant fact that at when he took charge the student student student stu stu- dent body numbered less than students Today It has nearly f four ur times that that- After Dr Wheeler was advanced to comparative retirement as as dent 1 nt emer emeritus emeritus' t s' s of or the university he contin continued ed to hold the chair of philology at the institution Many universities knew v. kne him as a lecturer including H Harvard and the University of Berlin BerUri He occupied the Roosevelt chair of lectureship at the latter Institution |