University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Wisconsin, on january 14, 1860. He passed the greater part of his boyhood in Chicago, to which city his father, a well-known preacher, had been called tot take charge of the Second Baptist Church. His college years were spent at Brown, where he was graduated in 1880, to pass thence by way of the Rochester Theological Seminary to the Baptist Seminary at Morgan Park, where he received his bachelor degree in divinity in 1883. After a few years earnest pursuit of his calling, he resolved to withdraw and prepare himself to become a teacher. An inspiring and born leader of men, whom he met in his student days at Morgan Park and with whom hisrlife was destined to be intimately inter- woven, became his guide in the new enterprise. It was William Rainey Harper. With him, then holding the professorship at Yale, the young minister studied for thee years, crowning his labors with the doctors degree in 1891, and presently transferring his activity abroad in order to give the last edge to his careful prep-L aration for his new profession by a year's study at the University of Freiburg. When he returned to America, it was to accept a chair at the University of Chicago, just starting life under the auspices of the mangwho had so deeply in- fluenced his career. At Chicago he became Associate Professor, latterly Pro- fessor of Comparative Religion and Ancient History, combining in an unusual way and with extraordinary success instruction in two related fields. These are the bare facts of a career, the better part of which, covering a period of fifteen years, he spent in our midst. He was intimately associated with the administration of the University, serving for six years as Recorder; he wrote several books, his last, A History of the Ancient World, bearing witness to powers splendidly mounting to their zenith; ,he was a husbandffather, citizen; but the great fact for our community, and doubtless for himself, was that he transmitted the living spirit of the older to the younger generation in the capacity of teacher. What of the life whose leading aspect is, as was Professor Good- speed,s, academic? Is it an ephemeral thing, because it lives by the word, and the word fails With the breath? In that case the teacheris is but a poor lot, and the most rapid ready-writer may turn the laugh upon him in the proud conscious- ness of the qualified immortality conferred by print. But luckily the word which falls from full lips is a seed, and a seed may betoken a harvest. By his scholars you shall know the good teacher, and in their minds is prepared for him the noblest monument which man can raise. Professor Goodspeed has gone from us. For it is written that man's life is even as the grass. But we may confi- dently hope that the frank smile and cordial humanity which he carried into all his associations will live on in our hearts, there in sometimperceptible but-effect- ive way, ever to plead the cause of honor, truth and charity.

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GEORGE STEPHEN GOODSPEED