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Entered May 16, 1906, at the Post-office at Chicago as second-class matter under Act of Congress, July 16, 1894 THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL VOLUME VIII OCTOBER 1912 NUMBER I Editorial [Since the last issue of the Classical Journal two noted American classicists have dropped out of our ranks. In honor of these departed scholars who have in different spheres done so much for the promotion of the higher learning in America we present the following brief memorial tributes.] WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN On the evening of June 15 Professor William Watson Goodwin passed peacefully away at his home in Cambridge. He was the oldest of American classical scholars, the last representative of that great generation, dear to Harvard men, of which Child, Lane, and Norton were elder members. His quiet end was a fitting close to a long and noble life. It seemed appropriate that his funeral should be held during Commencement week, making a part of the solemn festival of the University with which he had been so closely bound. By birth and association Professor Goodwin was connected vith three centers of New England's spiritual life-Plymouth, Concord, and Cambridge. He was born in 1831 at Concord where his father was minister of the First Church; his mother died in his infancy, and after his father's death in 1836 he lived with his grandparents in Plymouth. Thus his boyhood was spent in the place founded by his ancestors and under the most potent New England influences. Here he prepared for Harvard College, which he entered in 1847. The two years following his graduation he spent in private teaching and study, but in 1853 he went to Europe, where he studied at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin, and Bonn, taking his Doctor's degree at Göttingen in 1855. After a year of travel in Italy and Greece, a part of the time in company with his classmate, the late Professor W. F. Allen, he returned in 1856 to Harvard as tutor in Greek and Latin. When Felton was chosen president of the University in 1860, Mr. Goodwin was elected his successor in the Eliot professorship of Greek literature. Forty-one years he held this office in active service until his retirement in 1901 as Eliot professor emeritus, and then he continued for some time his instruction in Plato and Aristotle. He was also an Overseer from 1903 to 1909. Mr. Goodwin thus served Harvard University for fifty-six years as tutor, professor, professor emeritus, and overseer; his entire official connection as student and teacher covered a span of sixty-five years, broken only by the few years following his graduation. During the long period of his service he assisted in the significant educational changes which were brought to pass, being from the first one of the ardent supporters of the plans to allow students a freer choice of studies; and he contributed to the growth and influence of the University by his counsel and practical wisdom as well as by that great learning and noble nature which made for him a place apart in the minds of all who knew him. He was pre-eminently a Hellenist, and on his attainments in that field his permanent reputation rests. When but twenty-nine he published his Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, which for a full half-century has been the standard work for English-speaking students. Only the few who are familiar with the history of syntactical studies can understand today the service which this book did in substituting reason, clearness, and precision for the metaphysical speculations which were still rife in the middle of the last century in spite of the teachings of Madvig and others. To these scholars Mr. Goodwin made full and generous acknowledgment of his indebtedness; but his own contribution was large. Furthermore, he possessed unusual skill in formulating principles clearly and exactly, so that the forms of statement which he adopted in 1860 have long been the commonplaces of students and scholars. In 1870 his Greek Grammar appeared, which displayed the same qualities as his Moods and Tenses. But Mr. Goodwin was a grammarian in the ancient rather than the modern sense. Aeschylus, Pindar, Thucydides, Plato, and |