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WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN (1831– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:WATSON See also:GOODWIN (1831– )  , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Concord, See also:Massachusetts, on the 9th of May 1831 . He graduated at Harvard in 1851, studied in See also:Germany, was See also:tutor in See also:Greek at Harvard in 1856–186o, and See also:Eliot See also:professor of Greek there from 186o until his resignation in 1901 . He became an overseer of Harvard in 1903 . In 1882–1883 he was the first director of the American School for Classical Studies at See also:Athens . See also:Goodwin edited the Panegyricus of Isocrates (1864) and See also:Demosthenes On The See also:Crown (1901); and assisted in preparing the seventh edition of See also:Liddell and See also:Scott's Greek-See also:English See also:Lexicon . He revised an English version by several writers of See also:Plutarch's Morals (5 vols., 1871; 6th ed., 1889), and published the Greek See also:text with literal English version of See also:Aeschylus' See also:Agamemnon (1906) for the Harvard See also:production of that See also:play in See also:June 1906 . As a teacher he did much to raise the See also:tone of classical See also:reading from that of a See also:mechanical exercise to See also:literary study . But his most important See also:work was his Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb (1860), of which the seventh revised edition appeared in 1877 and another (enlarged) in 1890 . This was " based in See also:part on See also:Madvig and See also:Kruger," but, besides making accessible to American students the See also:works of these See also:continental grammarians, it presented See also:original See also:matter, including a " See also:radical innovation in the See also:classification of conditional sentences," notably the " distinction between particular and See also:general suppositions." Goodwin's Greek See also:Grammar (elementary edition, 187o;.enlarged 1879; revised and enlarged 1892) gradually superseded in most American See also:schools the Grammar of See also:Hadley and See also:Allen . Both the ,Moods and Tenses and the Grammar in later See also:editions are largely dependent on the theories of See also:Gildersleeve for additions and changes . Goodwin also wrote a few elaborate syntactical studies, to be found in Harvard Studies in Classical See also:Philology, the twelfth See also:volume of which was dedicated to him upon the completion of fifty years as an alumnus of Harvard and See also:forty-one years as 'Eliot professor . was unable to establish factories there .

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France a See also:company for the manufacture of vulcanized See also:rubber by his See also:process failed, and in See also:December 1855 he was arrested and imprisoned for See also:debt in See also:Paris . Owing to the expense of the litigation in which he was engaged and to See also:bad business management, he profited little from his inventions . He died in New See also:York See also:City on the 1st of See also:July 186o . He wrote an See also:account of his See also:discovery entitled See also:Gum-Elastic and its Varieties (2 vols., New Haven, 1853-z855) . See also B . K . See also:Peirce, Trials of an Inventor, See also:Life and Discoveries of See also:Charles See also:Goodyear (New York, 1866); See also:James See also:Parton, Famous Americans of See also:Recent Times (See also:Boston, 1867); and See also:Herbert L . See also:Terry, See also:India Rubber and its Manufacture (New York, 1907) .

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