 | 1905 - 950 sayfa
...possessions, but in its spirit, influence, and ideals. "The best college," said Garfield, "would be a student at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other." The question is, what is the University of Chicago doing and teaching? The answer to these questions... | |
 | Clarence Frank Birdseye - 1909 - 456 sayfa
...himself and his subject. He must approximate to President Garfield's ideal of a university—himself at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other. He must aim to educe the very best that is in his hearers, and must make them feel that their education... | |
 | Beth Bradford Gilchrist - 1910 - 514 sayfa
...arguments there was one more definitive. President Garfield's classic definition of a college — a boy at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other — cuts cleanly to the root of the best educational growth of the time. A college made men through... | |
 | National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session - 1925 - 756 sayfa
...religious, and civic. We should not be unmindful of a classic description of education, with "Garfield at one end of a log, and Mark Hopkins at the other." That description presents a perfectly sound principle. But usually it is applied to a trio with the... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1918 - 686 sayfa
...his pupil James A. Garfield, variously reported, asserts that the essence of a college is a student at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other. Literary quality was only a by-product of a mind thus primarily engaged in forming character. Hopkins's... | |
 | Walton Boyd Bliss - 1927 - 280 sayfa
...shoot. — JAMES THOMSON President Garfield once described the ideal school as consisting of a pupil at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other end. This was a wonderful tribute to the great teaching skill of Garfield's old tutor, Mark Hopkins.... | |
 | Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe - 1928 - 230 sayfa
...concerned with matters of education — as the much-quoted definition of a university as "a student at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other." The actual words uttered by Garfield at a New York dinner of Williams graduates in 1871 have been reported... | |
 | Peter J. Gomes - 2009 - 386 sayfa
...experience, for example, that nineteenthcentury Williams College romantic definition of education: a student at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other. One can almost hear Maggie Smith, as the inimitable Miss Jean Brodie in the movie version of Muriel... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1920 - 472 sayfa
...Trustees, Deans and Professors are a pompous fraud. Garfield gave us his picture of a university, the boy at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other, but that was before the German conquest. The American university of today looks very different. There... | |
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American whose notion of an efficient college was a student at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other... 