Abundant Life: Benjamin Ide Wheeler

Abundant Life: Benjamin Ide Wheeler is a book written by Monroe E. Deutsch that provides a comprehensive account of the life and achievements of Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Wheeler was a prominent American educator and scholar who served as the president of the University of California from 1899 to 1919. The book covers Wheeler's early life, his academic career, and his contributions to the field of education. It also delves into his personal life, including his family, friends, and interests. The author uses a variety of sources, including personal letters, diaries, and interviews with those who knew Wheeler, to paint a vivid picture of the man and his legacy. Overall, Abundant Life is a fascinating biography of a remarkable individual who left a lasting impact on American education.1926. For twenty years Benjamin Ide Wheeler served as president of the University of California. During these years great changes occurred in the field of university education; many of them were the inevitable result of altered conditions in the life of the nation and of changes in the conception of a university and, as a consequence, in the composition of the student bodies themselves. It must be conceded that of a considerable number of these developments at one important university, President Wheeler was a great part. Because of his many notable contributions to the University of California, because of the wide range of his interests, and because of the felicity with which he chose the apt word, his friends deemed it appropriate to select from the long list of his writings and addresses those that best express his ideas in a number of the fields in which his mind ranged, and gather them together in this volume.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.