Richard Goodwin at Peterhouse
基于个人回忆和他人贡献，回顾了经济学家理查德·古德温在剑桥大学彼得学院的教学生涯、酒务管理、绘画爱好及政治观点，并提及他对学院的遗产。
This article is based in part on my personal reminiscences of Richard Goodwin. We were fellows of the college together for many years; but our subject areas were very different, and I have relied a lot on contributions from his former students and others. I shall begin with his election as a fellow and continue with remarks on his teaching and direction of studies. Then I shall describe Richard as the college’s long-serving wine steward, before discussing him as a painter and saying a word about his politics. Finally I shall mention his legacy at Peterhouse. Many individuals appointed to teaching positions in the faculties and departments of the University of Cambridge also become fellows of the two dozen or so colleges within the university, which are self-governing institutions, having independent finances. When Goodwin came to a post in the Cambridge Faculty of Economics and Politics in 1951, he decided at first not to become a fellow—on the grounds, it seems, that he regarded colleges as somewhat anachronistic and perhaps, like the monasteries of former years, ripe for reformation of their high-table excesses. But after five years as a university lecturer, he relented and joined Peterhouse—the oldest of Cambridge’s collegiate foundations, and one with a reputation for the best food and wine in the university. To compound the irony, before long he became the college’s wine steward, a post he held from 1962 until his retirement as a fellow in 1980.