The Republican journal., 1915-03-11
EULOGY OF FORREST GOODWIN.
Washington Correspondence of the Bosto,
Herald.

Washington Correspondence of the Boston
Herald.
When Representative Asher Kinds of
Portland the other day entered upon his
eulogy of the late Forrest Goodwin, who
was member of the House from Show
hogan, he INDUCED in interesting rem
iniscence. The two men had been to-
gether much. Both graduated from
Colby, belonged to the same Greek let
ter fraternity, served as employees of the
late Speaker Reed, aud ultimately found
themselves colleagues in Congress as
members from the Pine Tree State.
81 was just leaving college" said Mr..
Kinds, when Mr.. Goodwin came in and
l followed his career as pitcher of a sue
cessful ball team through the four years.
course and rejolced in his prestige as
baseball hero. In those youthful days
this seemed great achievement, but as
1 look back over those years | realize
that he stood among the first four in his
class IN scholarship and was the class
orator. His love of fun, however, pre-
vented him from gaining the admiration
OF the faculty to the degree which his
literary and scholastic attachments en-
titled him.
Colby had in those days, as now, a
high ideal of the behavior of a serious
student. Boardman, the missionary to
Karens, and Lovejoy, the martyred aboli-
zionist, were honored sons of the college.
Even when was in college Benjamin F.
Butler, OF the class of 1888, was not &C.
corded tull honor as an alumnus. His
natural inclination to antagonize all con-
stituted authority with which he came
In contact was shown even at that early
period of his career. He accounts for the
estrangement between himself and the
faculty IN his autobiography, where he
relates that he had bitter religious con-
troversy with the pastor Of the college
church-no less person than the Rev,
S. F. Smith, author of America-and in
Inmates that he had the best of the argu-
ment.
These high ideals, however impossible
of attainment they might have seemed
to the youth at the time, had, neverthe-
less great influence in forming charac-
ter, as many of Colby's sons will testify.
Colby was then small college and had
not adopted to any extent the lecture
system in vogue in large colleges. Reel
tatlons to the professor were made daily,
and the interchange of ideas between
teacher and pupil at such close range
could not fail to bring out the best in the
student. Two members of the faculty
of our day are still living. Prof. Julian
Taylor was then, as he still is, at the
head of the Latin department.
IA student recently said of him:
When you make recitation to DR.. Tay-
lor, you realize what an infinite thing
perfection is Such thoroughness and
attention to duty as he demanded in his
class work furnished standard for good
work anywhere in the field of effort.
DR.. Albion W. Small, now the distin-
gu shed head of the sociological depart
ment OF Chicago University, came to
Colby fresh from the German UNIVERSE
ties, and brought to his classes an
enthusiasm to which they heartily re-
sponded. Moreover, though he scandal
lied the faculty, he delighted the boys
by attending the matched games of the
baseball team of which Mr. Goodwin was
the STAR
Representative Hinds in equally inter-
esting fashion, commented upon the
House of the 5lst Congress, of which
Reed was speaker and in which he and
Mr.. Goodwin were officials. "The de-
bates of that Congress-, said the Maine
representative, reflected a transition
period In the thought of the nation.
Memories and traditions of the Civil War
dominated public sentiment. The ami
mostly aroused, especially by the con-
sideration of the so-calied force bill,
sometimes affected even the social life
OF Washington. Gen. Wheeler of Ala
bama and Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio did
not hesitate to fight the war over again
in acrimonious debate on the floor. Hap
PLY, the Spanish war furnished an op-
portunity for both these elements to
unite in common service to the country
and put an end to such references to sec
tional differences in debate in the house
of Representatives.
1.-The hall of the House during that
5lst Congress was a wonderful school for
young man. The spectacle of strong
men striving together in the perform
ance of difficult tasks, while not calcu-
lated, perhaps, to teach good manners,
gave an unparalleled opportunity for
the study of human motives and the
elements which make for strength of
character"
GROWING SIZE OF MOTOR SHIrs.
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