Professor Hoicell's Address 13 



character and his intellectual sincerity. Indeed, the 

 biological students of the days that I am recalling were 

 very fortunate in having two such teachers as Martin and 

 Brooks : these men had, or rather I should say they lived, 

 such high ideals that unconsciously their pupils imbibed 

 from them a distaste for petty and selfish methods. But 

 Brooks's particular influence was due chiefly, I imagine, 

 to the fact that all of us recognized in him a certain inde- 

 pendence and profundity of thought. He was interested 

 in the large problems of biology. Concerning these prob- 

 lems he thought continually and deeply and along lines 

 of his own. Those who were brought into close associa- 

 tion with him as students, appreciated this fact and at 

 once accepted him as an intellectual guide and master. 

 Matters of laboratory technique they might have to 

 acquire from other sources, but from him they obtained 

 the stimulus to real thinking. As an undergraduate 

 student I was thrown into somewhat intimate relations 

 with the graduates in the biological department. I recall 

 that, although some of them differed but little in age and 

 in amount of training from Brooks, yet without exception 

 they regarded him as an older and wiser man, and paid 

 that deference to his attainments which all subsequent 

 generations of his students have been glad to acknowledge. 

 For all the former students of the biological labora- 

 torv the death of Dr. Brooks will mark the end of a defi- 



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nite era in the history of the department. The work of 

 this laboratory will go forward, I have no doubt, under 

 new hands with as great success as in former years, but 

 it is a sad thing to realize that the period of Martin and 

 Brooks has gone by, that a definite chapter in the history 

 of this laboratory has been completed beyond revision. 

 The old students look back upon this finished work with 

 pride; they can wish no greater prosperity to the biologi- 

 cal department than to hope that the influence of these 

 two great and beloved teachers may be perpetuated here 

 forever. The methods that they used, the problems that 



