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15-488: Mark Hopkins may refer to: Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887), American educator Mark N. Hopkins , filmmaker Mark Hopkins Jr. (1813–1878), American railroad magnate Mark Hopkins Hotel , a luxury hotel in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

30-541: A couple of saw-mills and a hammer to this outfit, and, at a pinch, to dispense with the services of Mark Hopkins." In 1915 Hopkins was elected into the American Hall of Fame . In 1964, Walter F. Hendricks founded Mark Hopkins College in Vermont in his honor. It closed in 1978. His son, Henry Hopkins (1837–1908), was also a president of Williams College. Mark Hopkins's brother, Albert Hopkins (1807–1872),

45-498: A lawyer Hopkins held a lifelong interest in the law and aspects of his argument in Evidences of Christianity reflects legal metaphors and language about the veracity of eyewitness testimony to the events in the life of Jesus Christ . Much of his apologetic arguments though were a restatement of views that had been previously presented by earlier apologists such as William Paley and Thomas Hartwell Horne . Of his other writings,

60-797: The Interstate Commerce Act and the Pendleton Civil Service Act . Ingalls rejected the nomination of James Campbell Matthews to the recorder of deeds in 1886. Ingalls claimed that his rejection was because of Matthews' non-residency of Washington, D.C.; however, journalists argued that his rejection was racially based. In 1887 Ingalls was elected President pro tempore of the Senate. Praised throughout his life for his keen sarcasm and quick wit, John James Ingalls died in Las Vegas, New Mexico on August 16, 1900. He

75-405: The 1850s. At an 1871 dinner of Williams alumni, Garfield paid tribute to Hopkins, defining an ideal college as Hopkins and a student together in a log cabin. The epigram became more widely known in the pithier form retold by John James Ingalls , in which a log was substituted for the log cabin. In the later judgment of university historian Frederick Rudolph , "no one can properly address himself to

90-706: The chief were Lectures on Moral Science (1862), The Law of Love and Love as a Law (1869), An Outline Study of Man (1873), The Scriptural Idea of Man (1883), and Teachings and Counsels (1884). Hopkins took a lifelong interest in Christian missions, and from 1857 until his death was president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions —the foreign missions board for American Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and other Reformed Protestant churches. He died at Williamstown , on June 17, 1887. President James Garfield had attended Williams College in

105-601: The first state Senate and state senator in 1862. During the Civil War he served as judge advocate in the Kansas militia. As an editor of the Atchison newspaper, Freedom's Champion , for three years, he won a national reputation for a series of magazine articles. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1873, succeeding Samuel C. Pomeroy , Ingalls served for 18 years. He supported labor and agriculture against monopolies. He also favored

120-755: The kind sent out from any American college, and in 1837, at his suggestion and under his direction, an astronomical observatory was built at Williams College, said to have been the first in the United States built at a college exclusively for the purposes of instruction. An address, delivered in South Hadley, Mass., July 30, 1840, at the third anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary , Northampton: Printed by J. Metcalf, 1840. John James Ingalls John James Ingalls (December 29, 1833 – August 16, 1900)

135-551: The question of higher education in the United States without paying homage in some way to the aphorism of the log and to Mark Hopkins". In his 1903 essay " The Talented Tenth ," W. E. B. Du Bois opined, "There was a time when the American people believed pretty devoutly that a log of wood with a boy at one end and Mark Hopkins at the other, represented the highest ideal of human training. But in these eager days it would seem that we have changed all that and think it necessary to add

150-606: The theologian Samuel Hopkins , Mark Hopkins was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts . He graduated in 1824 from Williams College , where he was a tutor in 1825–1827, and where in 1830, after having graduated in the previous year from the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield , he became professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric. In 1833 he was licensed to preach in Congregational churches. He

165-520: The title Mark Hopkins . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Hopkins&oldid=852521329 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mark Hopkins (educator) Great-nephew of

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180-602: Was a satire of college life. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. Moving to Kansas Territory , Ingalls settled in Atchison in 1860. He joined the anti-slavery forces and worked to make Kansas a free state. He was a member of the Wyandotte constitutional convention in 1859 and is reputed to have coined the state motto, Ad Astra per Aspera . When Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861, he became secretary of

195-457: Was an American Republican politician who served as a United States senator from Kansas . Ingalls is credited with suggesting the state motto and designing the state seal. John James Ingalls was born in Middleton , Massachusetts , on December 29, 1833. He graduated from Williams College in 1855. Foreshadowing his later reputation as a wit, his commencement oration, entitled "Mummy Life,"

210-410: Was long associated with him at Williams College, where he graduated in 1826 and was successively a tutor (1827–1829), professor of mathematics and natural philosophy (1829–1838), professor of natural philosophy and astronomy (1838–1868) and professor of astronomy (1868–1872). In 1835 he organized and conducted a natural history expedition to Joggins, Nova Scotia , said to have been the first expedition of

225-693: Was president of Williams College from 1836 until 1872. He was one of the ablest and most successful of the old type of college president. He married Mary Hubbell in 1832 and together they parented ten children. His volume of lectures on Evidences of Christianity (1846) was delivered as a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute in January 1844. The book became a favorite textbook in American Christian apologetics being reprinted in many editions up until 1909. Although not trained as

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