Address Before the Alumni of Bowdoin College, July 8, 1873
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Southern Slavery in Its Present Aspects: Containing a Reply to a Late Work of the Bishop of Vermont on Slavery
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Syllabus Or Skeleton of Dr. Goodwin's Lectures on Apologetics, Or, The Evidence of Christianity
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Notes On the Late Revision of the New Testament Version
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Daniel Raynes Goodwin was a college president and divine. He wrote much, both on philosophical and theological subjects.
Background
Daniel Raynes Goodwin was born on 12 April 1811, in North Berwick, Maine. He was the son of Samuel and Anna Thompson (Gerrish) Goodwin, and brother of Ichabod Goodwin. He was descended from Daniel Goodwin, who was in Kittery, Maine, in 1653.
Education
Goodwin was sent to the academy at South Berwick and to Limerick Academy, and in 1832, he graduated from Bowdoin College at the head of his class. After teaching for one year at Hallowell, Maine, he went to Andover Theological Seminary, but in 1835 he returned to Bowdoin.
Career
In Bowdoin, Goodwin worked as a tutor in modern languages under his old teacher, Henry W. Longfellow.
Later, in the same year, when Longfellow resigned, Goodwin succeeded to the professorship and spent some two years in study abroad. He remained at Bowdoin until 1853, not only teaching the modern languages but also serving as librarian for fifteen years.
Early in the forties he began his connection with the Episcopal Church, and was confirmed at Gardiner.
In spite of a very considerable prejudice which prevailed in Maine against the Episcopal Church, he was ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in 1848, and helped to organize the church in the college town.
His reputation, both as a scholar and teacher, and as a churchman, led to his election in 1853 as president of Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut, where he also acted as professor of modern languages, and later of moral and intellectual philosophy.
He exerted his influence to raise the standard of study and of discipline, and won the respect and regard of faculty and students alike. In 1860, he became provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
At Philadelphia as at Hartford, he had strengthened and improved both scholarship and discipline. For the remaining years of his life he was connected with the Philadelphia Divinity School, as dean from 1868 until 1883, and as professor of systematic divinity from 1865 until his death in 1890.
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Views
In his inaugural address to the position of the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, he stressed the importance of physical training and athletics, in which he took a lifelong interest. His administration was noteworthy also for intellectual vigor. But a real conservative at heart, he did not approve of adding a scientific department under the conditions then existing, and this led to his retirement from office in 1868.
Personality
In person, Goodwin was a man of noble and winning aspect, tall and dignified, with finely cut features and piercing eyes. He had an eager interest in men and in the new social problems of the day, though he was by temper and disposition conservative.
Connections
On January 2, 1838, Goodwin was married to Mary Randall Merrick, by whom he had four daughters and two sons.