Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-07
GARFIELD IS ELECTED
Chosen President of Old VIII
Iiams College.
SUCCEEDS HENRY HOPKINS
Is Son of the Late President
Garfield.
BORN IN PORTAGE COUNTY, OHIO
A Brother of the cabinet officer
and Considered an Excel
lent Man.
UCCEEDS HENRY HOPKINS
oRN IN PORTAGE COUNTY, OHIO

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, July Civilians College
men in this city received the news today
of the election Of Prof Harry Augustus
Garfield of Princeton University as presi-
dent of Williams to succeed the Rev. DR..
Henry Hopkins. who has been the head Of
that institution since January, 1902. The
selection of Prof. Garfield as President
Hopkins successor was made by the trus-
tees after months of consideration, and
Prof. Garfield was chosen partly on the
recommendation of President Hopkins him.
self.
Prof. Garfield is the eldest son of James
A. Garfield, twentieth President of the
United States, and was born October H.,
1868, at Hiram, Partage county, Ohio. He
studied law at the Columbia Law School and
then went abroad and spent a year at Ok
ford and the Inns of Court in London.
On June A. 1888, he married Miss Bell
Hartford Mason Of Mentor, Ohio, and the
same year he began law practice in Cleve-
land He rapidly became prominent in the
commercial and railroad business of Cleve-
land as a director Of the Cleveland Trust
Company, vice president and director Of the
Garfield Savings and Banking Company,
and in 1898 president of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce. He was an or
ganizer and afterward president of the
Municipal Association of that city, a men,
Der of the National Municipal League ex-
ecutive committee, vice president of the
National Civil Service Reform League, a
director of the American Social Science
Association, chairman of the social COM
mittee of the Cleveland Chamber of Com
merce on the reorganization of the United
States consular service and a trustee or
director of several other Cleveland business
and civic associations Since December
1903, he has been professor Of politics in
Princeton University. He is an intimate
friend of eX-President Cleveland and is
popular at Princeton.
Hopkins Retires Voluntarily.
Prof. Garfeld's wide experience with men
and affairs and the practical character of
his career make him, in the opinion of the
trustees of Williams, an ideal choice for
executive of that college. OF late years
trustees of colleges and universities have
who are comparatively young and who are
practical business men, as well as schol-
ars.
Prof Garfield is regarded as an excellent
example of the modern college president.
President Hopkins retires at his own re-
quest, anxious to leave the direction of Will
liams' affairs in the hands of a younger
man. DIR. Hopkins is seventy years old, and
is a son of the late Mark Hopkins who
was president of Williams from 1896 to 1872
He was born at Williamstown in 1897, and
was graduated from Williams College with
the class of 1853 after which he studied
theology at the Union Theological Seminary
for two years and entered the ministry in
1861 In the same year he received a COM
mission from President Lincoln as army
hospital chaplain. and served at Alexandria,
Va, until 1864. He was instrumental in Sc
curing legislation for national soldiers GEM
eteries.
DR.. Hopkins was pastor of the Second
Congregational Church at Westfield, Mass,
from 1866 to 1880. when he resigned to be-
come pastor of the First Congregational
Church of Kansas City. He was chaplain
of the Sons of the Revolution of the state
of Missouri, corporal member and vice
president of the American board of commits
sioners for foreign missions, a trustee of
Drury College and a member of the Ma
tional Association of Charities and Correc-
tons.