Benjamin Ide Wheeler

Benjamin Ide Wheeler (July 15, 1854 – May 2, 1927) was a professor of Greek and comparative philology at Cornell University from 1886 to 1899, author, and president of the University of California from 1899 to 1919. He received honorary doctorates from 8 universities. In 1917, the University of California, Berkeley named the newly-opened Wheeler Hall in his honor. The Liberty ship List of Liberty ships (B)#Benjamin Ide Wheeler SS Benjamin Ide Wheeler, launched in November 1942, was named in his honor. Quotes There was no priestly hierarchy either for Greece as a whole or for single cantons; not even among priests of the same Ancient Greek religion cult in different cantons was there organized coöperation. Some popular shrine or oracle might win more than local prestige and secure the protection and support of various neighboring states, but there the drift toward centralization and organization found its limit.At no time did there exist an organized authority which could formulate standards of faith or dictate the usages of religious etiquette. Ritual, seeking that which in matter and manner was believed to be well pleasing to the List of Greek deities gods, followed the traditions of the individual shrines, and there were no better theologians than the poets. Dionysos and immortality: the Greek faith in immortality as affected by the rise of individualism 1899 Boston Houghton, Mifflin & Company 3–4 (67 pages; 1898 Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University; text at archive.org) Viewing history in the large, we cannot fail to see that the world we live in is essentially a History of the Mediterranean region Mediterranean world. All its fundamental forms and moulds for law and government, art, architecture, and literature, thought and faith., were created beside the Mediterranean; all its political and religious struggles, all its wars, were the fighting over of old Mediterranean questions; and as a system of types and forms, it never can be really understood and known except as it be reduced to Mediterranean terms, and studied in the perspective of a Roman, Greek, or Syrian horizon. The Old World in the New The Atlantic Monthly August 1898 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1898/08/the-old-world-in-the-new/636222/ No single personality, excepting the carpenter's son of Nazareth, has done so much to make the world of civilisation we live in what it is as Alexander of Macedon. He leveled the terrace upon which History of Europe European history built. Whatever lay within the range of his conquests contributed its part to form that Mediterranean civilisation which, under Rome's administration, became the basis of European life. Alexander the Great Famous epoch-makers; authentic biographies of the world's greatest characters. Heroes of the nations New York Fred DeFau & Company 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=M94LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 1 (520 pages) The rate at which your knowledge will ripen into wisdom depends in considerable part upon your distinguishing what is important and what is relatively unimportant. Some people seem never to know any difference between the Note (typography) footnotes and the headlines. Things that Are Worth While (May 13, 1914 commencement address) The Abundant Life: Benjamin Ide Wheeler Wheeler's collected writings & addresses. Tribute of the Class of 1926, University of California, to Benjamin Wheeler University of California Press 1926 https://books.google.com/books?id=6TXuAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA67 67–70 (385 pages; quote from p. 67; edited by Monroe Emanuel Deutsch) External links Benjamin Ide Wheeler Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame https://riheritagehalloffame.com/Benjamin-Wheeler/ Category:1854 births Category:1927 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Brown University alumni Category:Cornell University faculty Category:Non-fiction authors Category:People from Massachusetts