Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III RECOLLECTIONS OF DR. MARK HOPKINS AND EMERSON MABIE did not often refer in his writings to his college experiences. As has already been pointed out, he was interested in the present and the future, rather than in the past, so far as his own life was concerned. Two men, however, under whose influence he came while at Williams, left so deep and abiding an impression upon him that in after life he referred to them at length, presenting pen-portraits of them which are of permanent value. One of these men was Dr. Mark Hopkins, the president of the college in his day, and the other was Ralph Waldo Emerson, who delivered a series of lectures in Williamstown in the early autumn of 1865. In the 'Sixties Dr. Mark Hopkins was the most commanding figure in the educational world in America. In the staff of professors under him were several men who later acquired national reputations. Two of them became successively presidents of the college, Paul A. Chadbourne, Professor of Natural History, and Franklin Carter, Professor of both French andLatin. Then there was another man of originality, independence and intellectual force, Arthur Latham Perry, Professor of Political Economy and History, who also taught the German language and German literature while Mabie was at Williams, and who, as an advocate of free-trade became and remained for many years an academic and economic storm-centre. His first book, " Elements of Political Economy," was published in 1865, when Mabie was half through his college course. His two sons, Bliss Perry, Professor of English at Harvard, and Lewis Perry, Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, carry on admirably the family tradition of high scholarship combined with independent thinking. In addition to these distinguished men John Tatlock was Professor... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.