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May 18, 1927 issue

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To the growing list of former college presidents who have recently died must now be added the name of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, for twenty years, until his retirement in 1919, president of the University of California. A gentle, scholarly personality, of broad range and vision, he valued freedom of opinion in his own case as well as in that of his faculty. Thus he warmly supported Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency of the U.S. in 1912 despite wide criticism, and his tolerance of dissenting opinion and refusal to hate and be bitter when the U.S. entered the World War in 1917 gave great offense to the hundred-percenters of the day. Indeed, the charge that he was too friendly to the Germans was then raised against him.

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PRESIDENTS -- United States; WHEELER, Benjamin Ide; ROOSEVELT, Theodore, 1858-1919; CRITICISM; COLLEGE teachers; RETIREMENT; UNITED States
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