The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
new PRESIDENT OF WILLIAMS
MARRY A.. GARFIELD TO SUCCEED
THE REV. HENRY HOPKINS.

Som Of a President or the United states. .
Lawyer and OF Late a Professor I'm
Princeton close Friend Of Grover
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Williams College men in this city received
the news ye~sterday.of the election of Prof.
Harry Augustus Garfield of Princeton Uni
yersity as president Of Williams TO succeed
,he Rev. DIR. Henry Hopkins, who has been
the head of hat institution since January,
1902. The selection OF Prof. Garfield as
President Hopkins's successor was made
by the trustees after months of considera-
zion and Prof. Garfield was chosen partly
on the recommendation of President Hop
kins.
Prof. Garfield is the eldest son Of James
A. Garfield, twentieth President Of the
United States, and was born October IL.
1853, at Hiram. Portage county. Ohio. He
was graduated from Williams in 1885,
studied law at the Columbia law school and
then went abroad and spent u year at Ok
ford and the Inns of Court in London.
On June IA, 1888. he married Miss Belle
Hartford Mason of Mentor. Ohio, and the
same year began law practice in Cleveland.
He rapidly became prominent In the COM
nercial and railroad business of Cleveland
a. a director of the Cleveland Trust Com
rany, vice-president and director of the
Garfield Savings and Banking Company,
and in 1903 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
executive committee. a 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 n a trustee or
director of several other Cleveland business
and civic associations. Since December.
1908, he has been professor Of po litics in
Princeton University. he Is an intimate
friend Of ex-President Cleveland and is
popular at Princeton.
Prof. Gartield'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. or late years
trustees OF colleges and universities have
been inclined to select for executives men
who are comparatively young and who are
practical business men as well as scholars.
Prof. Garfield is regarded as an excellent
eAdIlplt VI lnt ulObCl COllCkC DlOrlutuIs
President Hopkins retires at his own
request, anxious to leave the direction OF
Wiiiams's affairs in the hands OF a younger
man. DR.. Hopkins is 20 years old, and
is a son of the late Mark Hopkins. who was
president Of Williams from 1886 to 1872.
lie was born at Williamstown in 1897 and
was graduated from Williams College with
the class of 1858, after which he studied
theology at the Union Theological SEM
mary for two years and entered theministry
in 1851. In the same year he received a
commission from President Lincoln as
Army Hospital Chaplain and served at
Alexandria, Va, until 1854. He was instru-
mental in securing legislation for national
soldiers cemeteries.
Or. Hopkins was pastor of the Second
Congregational Church at Westfield. Mass,
from 1864 to 1850, when he resigned to become
pastor Of the First Congregational Church
Of Kansas City. He was chaplain of the
Sons Of the Revolution of the State OF
Missouri. n corporate member and vice.
president of the American board Of COM
missioners for foreign missions, a trustee
Of Driry College and a member of the
National Association Of Charities and Cor
TeCtiOnS.