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second term for Freshmen, and in the first term for Sophomores. 

 This was no inconsiderable amount of teaching for an inexperienced 

 young man who had on his hands also the giving of a course ot lec- 

 tures at the Medical School in Boston, from the 1st of November to 

 the 1st of March. At the building in North Grove Street, where he 

 found plenty of space, and very little else, Professor Cooke fitted up 

 ail excellent laboratory for lecture purposes and for research. The 

 Medical Class was turbulent, and always contained a considerable 

 proportion of rough, uneducated young men ; but the young professor 

 made his lectures so interesting by carefully prepared experiments, 

 that he rarely had trouble with his boisterous auditors. To the 

 methods and policy of the Medical Faculty, on the other hand, he 

 soon began to manifest a dislike, which before long became acute. 



On the 26th of June, 18.'>2, the President and Fellows passed 

 a vote making " an annual grant of $200, half for minerals 

 and half for chemical apparatus, to be disbursed under the direc- 

 tion of the Erving Professor, who will account for the same at 

 the end of each academic year." That vote remains in force to this 

 day ; but the annual grant has risen from $200 a year to $800. It 

 gave Professor Cooke something on which he could depend every 

 year for the increase of apparatus and of the mineral collection. 



In the following November, the Treasurer of the College laid be- 

 fore the Corporation " a catalogue of the Rumford and other appara- 

 tus belonging to the College, in charge of the Erving Professor of 

 Chemistry, which had been examined and verified by him and found 

 to be in good order." In less than two years Professor Cooke es- 

 tablished his reputation with the Corporation as a trustworthy custo- 

 dian of apparatus and other College property. This reputation stood 

 him in good stead throuo-hout his career. He had also secured labo- 

 ratories both in Cambridge and Boston, procured considerable quanti- 

 ties of fittings and apparatus, and pushed his subjects into the 

 prescribed curriculum of the College. 



Let us turn now to consider what he did next in the Faculty. In 

 1852-53, he introduced a course of lectures on Chemistry, twice a 

 week, for Seniors in the second term. He had already got access to 

 the Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors. In the following year he 

 gave up the Freshman Chemistry in the second term, in order to 

 occupy both terms of the Sophomore year. The Senior lectures on 

 Mineralogy disappeared, but instead, notice was given that Mineralogy 

 is taught to those who desire to learn it by Professor Cooke. Con- 

 sidering that not a particle of Chemistry was taught to undergradu- 



