WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN. 815 



Oxford also in 1890. In 1905 Gottingen renewed honoris causa the 

 degree of Ph.D. which he had received at that University in 185,5. 

 At home he received honorary degrees from Amherst, Chicago, 

 Columbia, Yale, and Harvard. He enjoyed the rare distinction of 

 being twice president of the American Philological Association (1871 

 and 1884); he was vice-president of the Egypt Exploration Fund; 

 for many years he was closely identified with the work of the Archae- 

 ological Institute of America. He was a member of the American 

 Philosophical Society, an honorary member of the Hellenic Society of 

 London, of the Philological Society of Cambridge, England, of the 

 Hellenic Society of Constantinople, of the Archaeological Society and 

 Academy of Science at Athens, and a foreign member of the Imperial 

 German Archaeological Institute. 



Like the "high-minded man" of Aristotle, praise or blame neither 

 elated nor dejected him. He was unfeignedly modest, and always 

 took for himself far less than he deserved. He knew much about 

 things of which he professed to know nothing. Laudation of his work 

 did not cause him to think unduly of his powers, and he could rejoice 

 in siding with a critic against himself, the mark (according to Emerson) 

 of the cultured man. He kept unimpaired the serenity of the scholar 

 whose only aim is the truth and who sinks his personality in his work. 

 He was no lover of controversy and indirect challenge did not provoke 

 him to break silence. He never strove to be eloquent or subtle. Dis- 

 ingenuousness was utterly foreign to him. His every spoken and 

 written word was as clear and simple and straightforward as his 



life. 



Not that he made his deeper self familiar even to his friends. Re- 

 serve warded off the aggression of emotion in others as it was bis 

 defence against its promptings in himself; but, like some unde- 

 monstrative natures, he had a large capacity for tenderness. He had 

 none of the latent unsociability of the typical scholar, but was averse 

 to " talking shop," when many would gladly have had him yield to 

 that academic temptation. He delighted in the offices of an unosten- 

 tatious and refined hospitality; he seasoned life with humor and keen 

 wit. At the public dinner in 1901 in commemoration of his retirement 

 he proposed to amend Solon's maxim "call no man happy till he is 

 dead" to "call no man happy till he resigns." He relished the dry 

 humor of the descendants of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and matched 

 their aphorisms with those of the ancients. His sayings about people 

 often had a quaint and humorous acidity, but they were never prompted 

 by ungenerous feeling. No one could pass the barrier of his aloofness 



