WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN. ix 



and Tenses " became there, as at home, a standard treatise ; the 

 Journal of Philology and Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon con- 

 tain 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 Oxford also in 1890. In 1905 Gottingen 

 renewed honoris causa the degree of Ph.D. which he had received 

 at that University in 1855. 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 Philo- 

 logical 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 Archaeological Institute of America; and he 

 held the office of president of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences in 1903. He was an honorary member of the Hellenic So- 

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

 of the Hellenic Society of Constantinople, of the Archseological So- 

 ciety and Academy of Science at Athens, and was a foreign member 

 of the Imperial German Archseological Institute. 



Professor Goodwin was not a blind worshipper of the classical 

 literature of the ancients ; he saw in it, not an agent for the discipline 

 of the intellect of all youth, but an instrument, imperative for the 

 understanding of the development of European letters, and salu- 

 tary for those who would deepen their appreciation of English 

 literature. In him the intellectual spirit of scientific research in 

 the field of grammar did not blunt the literary and artistic sense, 

 which, as has well been said, is partly also moral. The old-time 

 humanities translated themselves in him into the spirit of just and 

 refined living. He did not confine his sympathies to the ancient 

 world that was his by the association of daily work; but he realized, 

 in the words of Renan, that "progress will eternally consist in de- 

 veloping what Greece conceived " ; and from Greece he gathered, 

 what many of the noblest and best have gathered thence, a large 

 part of that wisdom of life which is more precious and more endur- 

 ing than mere learning. 



Herbert Weir Smyth. 



