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schools. It was he who made many a parent believe that 

 the richest legacy he could leave his son would be a 

 disciplined brain and a sanctified heart. His influence 

 was a tower of strength for our scientific college, for 

 whilst the other professors did their work on the inside, 

 and did it well, Doctor Cook's agency extended to the 

 outside as well as inside, and was forever attracting public 

 attention and support. Is it strange that we learned to 

 lean on such a man and fell into the habit of trust- 

 ing him ? 



If, as will sometimes happen, the veil of uncertainty 

 and distrust seemed to hang over our future, Doctor 

 Cook's strong arm would draw aside the veil and point 

 out signs of promise which the rest of us had either failed 

 to observe or rightly to interpret. In many a trouble we 

 heard his buoyant voice and walked in the light that 

 flooded his eyes. " Never mind the present discourage- 

 ment," he would say; "let's do our duty with what we 

 have ; Providence, depend upon it, will send us some- 

 thing better after awhile." 



Though not a dreamer, he yet agreed with Emerson 

 that it was wiser as well as pleasanter to see castles than 

 •dungeons in the air. No wonder we loved his society; he 

 came among us when we were depressed, like the outburst 

 of the sun from behind a cloud. 



HIS SELF COMMAND. 



I do not mean to affirm, however, that Doctor Cook 

 was nothing but a peddler of sweet hopes and delicious 

 amiabilities. He was a man of like passions with our- 

 selves, capable of smarting under an affront and of 

 yielding to a momentary gust of temper. His was no 

 nerveless and flabby organization, like that of an octupus, 

 which can be sliced away by inches without causing a 



