"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
— James A. Garfield

January 1, 1970

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Statement that he is reported to have first made at an Alumni Dinner in Delmonico's Restaurant in New York. (28 December 1871). Hopkins was a personal friend and the president of Williams College.