GOODWIN, WILLIAM WATSON Ameri can classical scholar, was born in Concord, Mass., on May 9, 1831. He graduated at Harvard in 1851, studied at Bonn, Berlin and Gottingen, receiving his Ph.D. degree from there in 1855; was tutor in Greek at Harvard in 1856-6o, and Eliot professor of Greek thereafter until his retirement in 1901. He became an over seer of Harvard in 1903. In 1882-83 he was the first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Goodwin edited the Panegyricus of Isocrates (1864) and Demosthenes' De Corona 0900, and assisted in preparing the 7th edition of Lid dell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. He revised an English version by several writers of Plutarch's Morals (5 vol., 1871), and published the Greek text with literal English version of Aeschylus' Agamemnon for the Harvard production of that play in June 1906. As a teacher he did much to raise the tone of classical reading from that of a mechanical exercise to literary study. But his most important work was his Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb (186o, enlarged ed. 1890). Besides making accessible to American students the works of Madvig and Kruger, it presented original matter, including a "radical innovation in the classification of conditional sentences," notably the "distinction between particular and general suppositions." Both this and his Greek Grammar (1870) in later editions are largely dependent on the theories of Gildersleeve for additions and changes. He died in Cambridge, Mass., on June 16, 1912.