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1854–1927 United States

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.

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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 footnotes and the headlines.

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 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.

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