ave played important roles in the growth and development of
the University. No record of the Faculty, however, can be left without
mention of the Rev. Benjamin F. Cocker, M.A., Wesleyan, '64, who
succeeded Dr. Haven in the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy in 1869,
a strong and vital figure, of English birth but a citizen of the world,
who at one time nearly lost his life at the hands of cannibals in the
South Seas. He and his family arrived in America penniless, but his
ability as a thinker and preacher soon made him a place and eventually a
professorship in the University, where he was long remembered. He was
succeeded by Professor George S. Morris, Dartmouth, '61, who had come to
the University in 1870 as Professor of Modern Languages, a man of
totally different caliber, not so rugged and picturesque but more
sensitive and profound, the first real scholar in the modern sense in
the Department of Philosophy. Upon his death in 1889 he was succeeded by
the eminent philosopher John Dewey, Vermont, '79, who was followed in
turn in 1896 by Robert Mark Wenley, who came to Michigan bearing the
highest honors of the University of Glasgow. Within the Department of
Philosophy has also developed the special chair of Psychology, held by
Professor Walter B. Pillsbury, Nebraska, '92, who came to the University
in 1897 as instructor in the subject. Of these men it may be said that
they have all contributed their share to the singularly high place the
study of philosophy and metaphysics has continued to hold, even in this
utilitarian age, among the students of the University.

Elisha Jones, '59, who became Assistant Professor of Latin in 1875 and
Associate Professor in 1881, was also a teacher to whose memory long
generations of students pay tribute, not only for their introduction to
Latin through his textbooks, but for his fine simplicity and enthusiasm
for his work. At his death in 1888 his widow established a fellowship
which for many years aided many embryo classical scholars. Professor
Frieze, the head of the department, outlived him and was succeeded by
Francis W. Kelsey, Rochester, '80, whose labors in behalf of the
classics, and as president of the American School of Classical Studies
at Rome, and the Archeological Institute of America, have been widely
recognized. Associated for long years with Professor D'Ooge in the
Department of Greek was Albert H. Pattengill, '68, who died in 1906. He
was another extraordinary teacher