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...overdo long personal conferences and "small meetings." They may, even more than lectures, explain what the student should discover for himself; and they may require of the professor more hours a day than the day contains. President Eliot is said to have observed that the trouble with the Garfield theory of Mark Hopkins and the log is "in finding enough Mark Hopkinses to go round...
President Eliot will leave Cambridge this morning for Williamstown, where he will speak on "Municipal Government" this evening before the Good Government Club of Williams College. While in Williamstown he will be the guest of President H. A. Garfield...
...Harry A. Garfield, A.B., LL.D., president of Williams College, gave a most instructive lecture on "Education as a Career" in the Living Room of the Union last evening...
...introducing President Garfield, President Lowell spoke as follows: "It has been said that every man ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned...
President Garfield then gave the following address most of which is here printed verbatim...