George B. Hopkins

George B. Hopkins went in the senior year of his college course at Wisconsin to serve in the Civil War. Though he was never graduated, he remained all his life a powerful advocate of the principles underlying our Western State Universities whose immense service, in moulding the thought of our Western people along lines of practical judgment and sober common sense, we are beginning to understand in these days of political and social vagaries. Mr. Hopkins started life in the Northwestern railway field; Van Horne, Shaughnessy and Strathcona were his young colleagues. In later years, when he made his residence in New York, it was science, geography, and history which absorbed him. He was a man whose conversation drew alike on a widely varied experience and on a reflective and deeply retentive mind.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1921 Century Association Yearbook