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Robert William Rogers arrived at Drew in 1893 to fill the chair in exegetical theology. He had received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1886, a second B.A. from Johns Hopkins, and a Ph.D. from Haverford in 1890, as well as other earned and honorary degrees. Rogers had an international reputation for scholarship, but he remained a distinguished faculty member at Drew for thirty-six years. He died in 19231930.

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Robert Rogers was a tall, slender, sharp-featured, thin-lipped schoolman and came into the Drew faculty just as the hoary patriarch, James Strong, was succumbing to the infirmities of age. It marked the beginning of a new era. The "Big Five," who had reigned in the Forest for a quarter of a century, was breaking up. The novus homo had a promising pedigree, biologically and academically. The Rogers family was already remarkable for the number of educators on its rolls. The latest-and greatest-showed an awakened interest in the study of Hebrew when a mere boy in Philadelphia. This is Dr. Rogers' account of the incident which determined his course of life. Though the story has been told before, it must be told again and again, and in his own words:

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Reproduced from The Teachers of Drew, 1867-9421942, A Commemorative Volume issued on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of Drew Theological Seminary, October 15, 1942. Edited by James Richard Joy. (Drew University, Madison, N.J., 1942)

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