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   Morris Cohen was devoted to City College, a famous teacher who rigorously trained generations of students, grilling them by means of the Socratic method. He was a product of New York and of the City College experience. He achieved a higher life by attending this unique New York institution and was able to use the training he received to transcend his origins and transform into a nationally known intellectual figure.
   Cohen was a very important figure in the assimilation of East European Jewry into American culture. As the son of immigrants, he opened a path to American intellectual life for others who came to the United States. Cohen always remained faithful to his roots, and was never "ashamed of being born among people who, like the Greeks, English, or Americans, did not take the rooted plant as their ideal of life but deliberately chose to change their habitat in the course of time." He demonstrated through his teaching and writing what it meant to become part of American culture. His legacy served as an incentive to many American thinkers.

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