The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-15
ALL PRINCETON PAYS LAST
TRIBUTE TO MRS. M'COSH.
Imposing Ceremony at Burial of
Former College Heads Widow.

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PRINCETON, Nov. 15.-The funeral
of Mrs. Isabella McCosh, widow of DR..
James McCosh, once president of
Princeton University. was held at 8
O'Clock this afternoon after services
held in the First Presbyterian Church.
The funeral procession passed be-
tween lines of students massed on
either side OF the lane leading from
the gateway OF the church to the presI
dents lot where DIR. McCosh is buried.
Dean Andrew r. West, of the
Graduate School of Princeton Univer-
sity, has written the following tribute
to Mrs. McCosh:
"She is zone from among us, unob-
trusively n quietly, In keeping with
the she lived among us for so
many years. Her ninety-two years
were her crown of glory. the white
ness of full harvest Of a long life wholly
given to goodness.
'In the. first rush of memories, crowd
ing thick as we try to think of all she
"a to us, cold and deliberate con-
temptation is impossible. A brief
tribute of affections, unreasoned, but
not unreasonable, Is all that can be
uttered now. Yet some thoughts stand
out so plainly that they utter them
selves n perhaps the first is the
thought of her extraordinary nobility
of nature.
I'm her was the rarest blend CT
strength, gentleness and simplicity.
The best of Scotland was there, the
elemental rigor Of strict duty, and, with
it all, the touch of winning gentleness,
at ttrnev e1-e,, re rop,a mite pothoe offan
SO unexpectedly disclosed in Scottish
character. Herein lay her attractive
charm. fitting her for any station Or
any emergency. Then, too, her life
was a very busy one, each day filled
with its round of duties, punctually
performed, and performed without fret
or display. Anything like idleness or
thriftiessness meant useIessness to her.
Fol the twenty years of her husbands
presidency she miristered personally
to students who we're sick or In, dis
tress, visiting them at their college
rooms and attending to their needs.
The 1nf1rmary, named after her and
against her inclination, which was over
borne only by the argument that such
a naming would help In securing the
needed funds, is a slight remembrance
OF this constant service, and
who that remembers Princeton
in these later years can fail
to recall her venerable, noble figure in
c~essantly visiting the poor, straighten-
ing out their troubles, looking after
some one every one else had missed.
rebukins and retaining the careless
and shiftless, giving of her wise pru-
dence the help that led them to self
help, n teaching them effectively the
lessons OF decency and religion.
Most of all, the graces Of her char
acter We're heightened by her deep and
unaffected Christian faith. She was
well read and well instructed in the
holy truths she SO highly exemplifed.
Here was the core of her life, a, stead
fast trust, mistaken and unsuitable
by doubt, sorrow or disaster. On her
library table the morning of her death
there was a devotional book of her re-
cent reading and at it's end were these
old words, which might well serve as
the watchword of her long life: Let us
hear the conclusion OF the whole mat
ter. Fear God and keep His command
ments. for this is h whole duty OF
man."