BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER

'Benjamin Ide Wheeler' (Randolph, Massachusetts, 1854 – 1927)^[1] was a Greek and comparative philology professor at Cornell University as well as President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919.
Wheeler graduated from Brown University in 1875. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire he was a member of Mayor Eugene Schmitz's Committee of Fifty.
Under Wheeler the University of California underwent one of its periods of greatest growth. He also expanded the powers of the president, gaining the power to appoint all faculty.
The University of California, Berkeley named Wheeler Hall in his honor. A Liberty ship was also named in his honor, the SS Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

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★ Der griechische Nominalaccent (1885)

★ Analogy, and the Scope of its Application in Language (1887)

★ Principles of Language Growth (1891)

★ The Organization of Higher Education in the United States (1897)

★ Dionysos and Immortality (1899)

★ Life of Alexander the Great (1900)

★ The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language (1905)

Reference

1. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, , , , Columbia Encyclopedia, ,