University Hall. "He was unduly apologetic afterward about having acted thus responsibly, and the culprits were set loose on further mischief in the service of their headlong ideals."
Of the aftermath, he wrote: "Standards sank in various departments...The loss in rapport and fellow feeling, as well as in academic standards, was not soon to be made up."
Quine continued to write long after his retirement, with the last of his more than 25 works, "From Stimulus to Science" published in 1995.
He was known for the graceful style of the prose he wrote in ballpoint pen or banged out on a typewriter that he customized with logical symbols.
Goldfarb remembered asking Quine for help revising an early translation of his. He said Quine came back with four single-word changes--all perfect.
Each of them was absolutely beautiful," he said. "It was striking how he found the exactly the right word."
Quine is survived by three daughters, a son, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild.