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Would you like the origin of the traditional saying about Mark Hopkins and the log [TIME, Oct. 19]? In addressing the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association in Washington, D. C., December 11, 1877, James Abram Garfield said...
...ideal college," said President James Abram Garfield, "is one with Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other...
...President Garfield was shot while on his way to Williamstown, Mass. for a Williams College reunion. Last week shady little Williamstown was jammed with some 700 Williams men, including his son, Williams' President-Emeritus...
Harry Augustus Garfield, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph Buell Ely and New York Times' s Editor Rollo Ogden...
Nevertheless, like President Garfield they honored Mark Hopkins, who just 100 years before had become Williams' most famed and most beloved President...