814 WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN. 



can do no wrong," though her ministers may err, and which, " has more 

 than an imperial treasury in the love and respect of her sons and in the 

 confidence of the community." 



His life was bound up with the interests of Harvard, with which he 

 was connected, as student or as officer, for fifty-six years. Long 

 before he reached an advanced age he delighted in reminiscence, in 

 tales of the simplicity of college life in the fifties, and not the least part 

 of his charm for those of the younger generation who had a lively 

 interest in Harvard's past, consisted in the inexhaustible (and now 

 irrecoverable) fund of anecdotes about early academic worthies — 

 and unworthies - — that lay in the memory of one who had been a 

 student under Everett and Sparks and an officer of the college during 

 the administrations of Walker, Felton, Hill and Eliot. Harvard has 

 had few sons who have displayed greater devotion than he; a devotion 

 that he was able to signalize by the foundation of a Scholarship in 

 memory of his son Charles Haven, whose career of promise was cut 

 short by his death one year after his graduation in 1888; and, at the 

 end, by a bequest sufficient to establish one of the best endowed 

 Scholarships in the bestowal of the University. 



To the cause of the higher education of women Goodwin gave his 

 influential support. He was one of the first of the few teachers of 

 Harvard who were early encouraged to try the experiment of giving 

 instruction to advanced women students; and for many years he 

 continued to make certain of his courses accessible to members of 

 Radcliffe. He was one of the incorporators of the Society for the 

 Collegiate Instruction of Women and afterward of Radcliffe College, 

 served on the Academic Board of the Annex from 1882 to 1893, was 

 Chairman of that Board in 1885-86, a member of the Council of 

 Radcliffe College from 1888 to 1911, and a member of the Associates 

 of Radcliffe College from its incorporation until his death. 



Such are the landmarks in the career of a scholar whose life was 

 spent in quiet devotion to high things, a life that made no parade and 

 sought none of the noisy ways of fame. Yet to few Americans of our 

 time has been given an ampler measure of the tribute of recognition 

 that great powers have been used effectively and ser\aceably. Good- 

 win's mastery of Greek syntax enfranchised in Great Britain the 

 Hellenic scholarship of the United States. The "Moods and Tenses" 

 became there, as at home, a standard treatise; the Journal of Philologi/ 

 and Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon contain further evidences of 

 his exact learning. He received the degree of LL.D. from Cambridge 

 in 1883, from Edinburgh in 1890, and the degree of D. C. L. from 



