James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his death by assassination six and a half months later. He said of Hopkins, 'The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log with a student on the other.' Hopkins later said of Garfield in his student days, 'There was a large general capacity applicable to any subject. There was no pretense of genius, or alternation of spasmodic effort, but a satisfactory accomplishment in all directions.'
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