A university is a student on one end of a pine log and Mark Hopkins [president of Williams College ] on the other.
Source: In Dictionary of Quotations, by Bergen Evans, 1968.
-- James A Garfield, (Nov 19 1831-1881), US president, lay preacher; He was the U.S.'s 20th president, but was shot in a railway station after only four months in office; died 80 days later.