88 HENRY HILL GOODELL 



and occupations of his classmates and over every list put 



a motto of his own choice. Heading the list of lawyers we 



have : — 



Here lies a lawyer, rude and bold: 



He by his trade subsisted. 



Reader, think! How many lies the rascal must have told! 



Over the list of bachelors, and he was then among them, 

 he put this bit of good advice : — 



Thanks, my good friends for your advice, 

 But marriage is a thing so nice, 

 That he who means to take a wife 

 Had better think on 't all his life. 



Goodell acted not only as secretary of the class, but as 

 treasurer, and was actively instrumental in raising money 

 to establish a Class scholarship at Amherst College. It 

 was a fund of two thousand dollars, the income of which 

 was to aid indigent students. It was called the Henry 

 Gridley Scholarship of the Class of '62, in Memory of a 

 classmate, Lieutenant Henry Gridley of the 150th Regi- 

 ment of New York Volunteers, who fell on June 22, 1864, 

 in an engagement which General Sherman calls the "affair 

 of the Kolb House, where the enemy received a terrible 

 repulse." 1 



Colonel Ketchum in his report of the battle says: "First 

 Lieutenant Henry Gridley, a valuable officer, was killed in 

 this engagement." 2 The scene of this battle was some three 

 or four miles from Marietta, Georgia. 



After the death of President Goodell his classmates 

 established another scholarship of equal value, called the 

 Henry Hill Goodell Scholarship of the Class of '62. 



1 W. R., 38, P. n, 68. 2 W. R., 38, P. n, 79. 



