DOCTOR COOK AS A MEMBER OF 

 THE FACULTY. 



BY PROFESSOR T. S. DOOLITTLE, D. D. 



TT would be impossible for me not to allow the element 

 of personal affection to enter into my estimate of 

 Doctor Cook's character and services as a colleague. A 

 student under him from 1855 (his connection with Rut- 

 gers began in 1853), brought into closer relations with 

 him than with any other professor during both the four 

 years of my collegiate and the three years of my semi- 

 nary life, returning after a brief pastorate of two years to 

 be associated with him as a member of the Faculty for a 

 period of a quarter of a century, enjoying thus altogether 

 an acquaintance extending through thirty-four years, and 

 finding him always "my friend, faithful and just to me" — 

 how can I help betraying a feeling of deepest personal love 

 and of exalted personal admiration ! And with my heart 

 aflame in memory of his virtues, why should I attempt to 

 speak of him as a stranger unknown and unrevered ! 



It was because honest Will Shakespeare had stood the 

 test — every test of friendship and manhood — not only in 

 the fierce ambitions for fame before the footlights and in 

 the free interchange of wit and banter at the coffee-house, 

 but in the rivalries and vexations of the rehearsal behind 

 the scenes, that Ben Jonson's testimony to his character 

 is so valuable. When, therefore, we hear rare old Ben 



