The New Student's Reference Work/Hopkins, Mark

Hopkins, Mark, an American educator, was born at Stockbridge, Mass., Feb. 4, 1802. He graduated at Wipiams College in 1827, and studied medicine, but, fortunately for the college and her many students, accepted the professorship of moral philosophy in Williams College in 1830, where he remained until his death in 1887. He served the college as president from 1836 to 1872, making a model college president and teacher and one of the best known in the United States. Garfield, one of his pupils, said: “A log with a student at one end and Mark Hopkins at the other was his ideal college.” He was prominent in all church and educational bodies, acting as president of the American Board of Foreign Missions for nearly thirty years. His Evidences of Christianity and Law of Love and Love as a Law have been extensively used as textbooks. He died at Williamstown, Mass., June 17, 1887.