78 HENRY HILL GOODELL 



In the fall of 1864, he received and accepted an invitation 

 to return to his old preparatory school, Williston Seminary, 

 Easthampton, as teacher of modern languages and instruc- 

 tor in gymnastics. For this work he was well equipped, and 

 had time to devote to favorite studies, for he was begin- 

 ning to have something like a passion for books. 



While teaching at Easthampton he was associated with 

 such men as General Francis A.Walker, M. F. Dickinson, 

 Charles M. Lamson, Judson Smith, and Charles H. Park- 

 hurst. It was indeed a brilliant and inspiring corps of 

 teachers, such as any institution has a right to be proud of. 

 Goodell seems oftener than occasionally to have disturbed 

 the gravity and decorum of the faculty meetings by his 

 remarks, although Dr. Henshaw, the principal, did not 

 always perceive the suggestiveness of Goodell's sugges- 

 tions. There was once a proposition made to appoint some 

 member of the Faculty to do some particular duty, and 

 Goodell said, with that peculiar innocence of which he was 

 consummate master : " Dr. Henshaw, if you want a man who 

 possesses both the suaviter in modo and the fortiter in re, I 

 would suggest the name of " 



