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HOPKINS, MARK (1802—1887)

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HOPKINS, See also:MARK (1802—1887) , See also:American educationist, See also:great-See also:nephew of the theologian See also:Samuel Hopkins, was See also:born in See also:Stockbridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the 4th of See also:February 1802. He graduated in 1824 at See also:Williams See also:College, where he was a See also:tutor in 1825—1827, and where in 183o, after having graduated in the previous See also:year at the See also:Berkshire Medical College at See also:Pittsfield, he became See also:professor of Moral See also:Philosophy and See also:Rhetoric. In 1833 he was licensed to preach in Congregational churches. He was See also:president of Williams College from 1836 until 1872. He was one of the ablest and most successful of the old type of college president. His See also:volume of lectures on Evidences of See also:Christianity (1846) was See also:long a favourite See also:text-See also:book. Of his other writings, the See also:chief were Lectures on Moral See also:Science (1862), The. See also:Law of Love and Love as a Law (1869), An Outline Study of See also:Man (1873), The Scriptural See also:Idea of Man (1883), and Teachings and Counsels (1884). Dr Hopkins took a lifelong See also:interest in See also:Christian See also:missions, and from 1857 until his See also:death was president of the American See also:Board of Commissioners for See also:Foreign Missions (the American Congregational See also:Mission Board). He died at Williams-See also:town, on the 17th of See also:June 1887. His son, See also:HENRY HOPKINS (1837–1908), was also from 1903 till his death president of Williams College. See See also:Franklin See also:Carter's Mark Hopkins (See also:Boston, 1892), in the " American Religious Leaders " See also:series, and Leverett W.

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Spring's Mark Hopkins, Teacher (New See also:York, 1888), being No. 4, vol. i., of the " Monographs of the See also:Industrial Educational Association." Mark Hopkins's See also:brother,See also:ALBERT HOPKINS(1807–1872) ,was long associated with him at Williams College, where he graduated in 1826 and was successively a tutor (1827–1829), professor of See also:mathematics and natural philosophy (1829–1838), professor of natural philosophy and See also:astronomy (1838–1868) and professor of astronomy (1868–1872). In 1835 he organized and conducted a Natural See also:History Expedition to Nova See also:Scotia, said to have been the first expedition of the See also:kind sent out from any American college, and in 1837, at his See also:suggestion and under his direction, was built at Williams College an astronomical See also:observatory, said to have been the first in the See also:United States built at a college exclusively for purposes of instruction. He died at Williams-town on the 24th of May 1872. See Albert C. See also:Sewall's See also:Life of Professor Albert Hopkins (1879).

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