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ment for agricultural and mechanical education, the two 

 contestants, President Goodell and President Francis A. 

 Walker, came into court every morning, shook hands, chat- 

 ted together and addressed each other by the old familiar 

 names of " Frank" and "Harry." Yet each one was dead 

 in earnest that he was right, and the other was wrong; 

 but when the smoke of the contest had cleared away, it did 

 not leave even the shadow of a light cloud on their spirits. 

 Indeed his loyalty to his friends was chivalrous. He could 

 not desert a friend even when that friend was guilty of 

 an unpardonable mistake or even a crime. He illustrated 

 in his conduct Emerson's declaration, "A friend may be 

 regarded as the masterpiece of Nature." 



President Goodell was a man of deep, strong and active 

 humanitarian sentiments. He knew what it cost to be pa- 

 triotic in the true sense of the word, in "times that tried 

 men's souls," and his interest in his old companions in 

 arms was green and fresh to the last. He was a member 

 of the Loyal Legion and of the Edwin M. Stanton Grand 

 Army post, was commander at one time of the post and 

 for many years a member of the relief committee. He 

 looked after the memory of the dead with tender care; the 

 unfortunate were always an object of his solicitude, and 

 his apology for the old soldier, who had lost not a leg or an 

 arm, but his self-control, is a fine bit of writing on a high 

 plane of morality. 



Insight as keen as frosty star 

 Was to his charity no bar. 



He had a profound sympathy with the toiling millions 

 of earth, whose names are writ on water, who have done so 



