Quotes about Mark Hopkins

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I am not willing that this discussion should close without any mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins [president of Williams College] on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

James A. Garfield

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

James A. Garfield