Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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ur -President ROM the time when we began to notice happenings in the school world, one man has stood for us for what is progressive in public education. We rejoice that the great Educational Association of America has recognized his achievements in the development of schools, his large ideals for the minds of men, and awarded him its highest honor. But to us as pupils he is some- thing rmore than a normal school president or an educational leader. Sincere in our admiration for him as these, yet our devotion is given to the Dr. Cook we know, the friend of our noblest manhood and womanhood. As Freshmen we stood in awe of himg as juniors we enjoyed, and as Seniors we loved him. Gifted with rare power to see below misconceptions and unworthy ideals and find nobleness in the most humble, he has met our faltering with his faith, has believed in us against our own disbelief. Young hearted-so his face and spirit reveal him. Much of the sunshine of our school world comes from his genial. buoyant personality. One would say that he has absorbed the youthfulness of the many hundreds of young people who have rejoiced to call him master. As the weeks of our school life have become the months and the years, we have felt a longing to tell what he has been to us. Now that the time has come, in vain we seek for words. liut dear teacher will look behind the words and see the aHection we feel but cannot tell. ,7 ISW,

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DR. JOHN W. COOK

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