The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
UNIVERSITY PAYS
TRIBUTE TO COOK
Memorial Meeting for Man
Lost When Tuscania
Went Down.
sISsON Is SPEAKER
President Delivers Leading
Address; Students Tell
Of Influence.

The students OF the State University,
the faculty or the institution and many
people Of Missoula, yesterday after
noon gathered in the auditorium Of the
university at the memorial services
held In honor of the late Marcus B.
Cook. the first State University stu
dent to give his life in the European
war. Marcus Cook was drowned when
the Tuscania was sunk by a German
submarine. Never has more fitting
tribute been paid to a son of Montana
than those which yesterday told to
the world of Marcus Cooks splendid
character, and the esteem in which the
student body, of which for two years
he had been member, held him. The
occasion was marked by simplicity and
sincerity. Marcus Cook as student
as Montanan. and as an American
was fittingly praised.
The invocation was pronounced by
Rev. w. +. Lockwood of the Baptist
church. President Z. Q. Sisson Of the
State University was the first speaker
He said:
Loss Cannot Be Regretted.
Marcus Cook has lost his life and
we have lost him; so at least one might
say using words in their most elemen-
tary and commonplace sense. How
narrow and misleading such words are
1t Is one great purpose of this memor.
ial to show. He has lost his life ant
we have lost him. Yet as we trace
back in imagination on the paths which
have led him toward this end, anc
scrutinize every step which brought
him nearer to the final event. we can.
not regret one single step nor wish i
changed. Now, IL ever. the words o.
the Great Teacher are true: He that !.
set upon saving his life shall lose it
and he that casts his life away shall
save 1T The young soldier of the re.
public. marching toward the sunrise
stepped through sudden opened door
beyond our vision, but into glory. Fo,
the sake of his memory, for our owl
sakes for the sake of a better worlc
and happier mankind, we must seize
and hold this truth.
And mark well, that from the yer,
first step he knew the door was Their,
and might open just as it did; so like
wise know the hundreds of his fellow
soldiers for whom the door has not ye
opened, and God grant, may not opel
even to the end of the war.
Marcus Cook is type and symbol o.
all who serve today not because hi!
earthly career is ended and his bod,
laid in the hospitable soil of an alice
land; not because of any negation o.
loss or deprivation: but because he ha
finished the work he set out to do, be
cause he heard the call and answerc,
1t and followed the path until he cam
to the end, for him. For many, for tn
vast majority we trust the end of tn
task will be less dramatic; they vii
go and return, or will stay here an,
still do their full duty. But in tn
quiet heart and conscience and in tn
final estimate, honor belongs to dut,
DONE In whatever field and with what
ever event at It's end.
He Is the type and symbol becaus
his heart answered and his feet did no
turn back. SO we do well to NEE
thus to manifest and record our low
and reverence for him as we knew hin
and our pride that he belongs to II
forever; but most of all to clear on
own vision. to lift up our own hearts
and be pledged more deeply and conse
Grated anew to the battle of humanit,
long"