Mark Hopkins (1802-1887)
Williams College President 1836-1872
Graduate of Williams in the Class of 1824, which he entered from secondary school as a junior in 1822. Professor of moral and intellectual philosophy from 1830 to 1887 and president of the College from 1836 to 1872, he symbolizes in the history of American education the era of small country colleges, where poor boys, simple surroundings, and dedicated teachers created an environment friendly to liberal learning. A skilled teacher in the Socratic tradition, he has been immortalized by the aphorism attributed to one of his former students, James A. Garfield: "The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." A popular lecturer on moral and religious questions, for many years president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions he earned the love and respect of generations of Williams men by his qualities as a teacher and friend. For over fifty years he helped to shape Williams men who knew how to respect their own minds and hearts and who knew the duty to listen to them.
By Prof. Fred Rudolph (WIlliams class of 1942)
SOURCES:
Williams College Alumni Review . May 1965
View the guide to the Hopkins Family Papers.
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- "The Meal Plan"
- 1954
- 1963
- A-D
- An Act to Establish a College
- B
- Biographical Chronology
- Biographical Chronology
- Biographical Chronology of Albert Hopkins
- Biographical Sketch
- Blueprints N-Z
- Box 3
- Box 42
- Clark Hall
- College Ensembles Non-Williams
- Contents List
- Contents List
- Contents List 2 B
- Contents List I, Numbered Sermons
- Folder 8
- Folder 9
- Folder 1
- Folder 11
- Folder 5
- Folder 5
- Folder 5 (misc.)
- Folder 6 (misc.)
- Folder 7
- Folder 8
- G-11
- Goodrich Gallery
- Isaac Henry Vrooman Papers
- James Bissett Pratt Papers
- M-O
- Mansion House
- MASSPIRG
- McMahon House
- Mechanical System
- Off Campus
- P-R
- Part 2
- Plumbing System
- Resignation of Tyler Dennett
- Ronell
- Samuel Chapman Armstrong Collection
- Science Quadrangle
- Scope and Content
- Series 1 Contents List B
- Series 11 Contents List 2
- Series 1: Samuel Chapman Armstrong
- Series 2 B
- Series 2 Contents List
- Series 2: Journals, Articles, Offprints, etc.
- Series 3, Miscellaneous
- Series 3: Faculty and Staff Files
- Series 4: Miscellaneous
- Series 4: Miscellaneous
- Series 9 Contents List
- Series Descriptions
- Series I, The Music Series
- Series II, Photographs
- Series II. Society of Alumni
- Series III. Williams-in-India, 1962-1971
- Series IV, Artifacts
- Series IV. Miscellaneous
- Series List
- Series List
- Series XI, Oversize
- Stetson Hall and Library
- Subseries A - Hawaii
- Subseries B - Civil War/Freedman's Bureau materials, 1862-1892
- Undergraduate Publications by Subject
- William Grant Still
- William Wood Skinner, Jr.
- Williams College Christian Association Records
- Williams College color
- Hopkins, Mark (1802-1887)
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