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its material prosperity and broadened its scope. 

 During the years of his professorship he had 

 published editions of some of the great Greek 

 tragedies, the Alcrati* of Euripides, the Antiy- 

 one and Electro of Sophocles and the Prome- 

 theus of Aeschylus, but after he became presi- 

 dent he turned his attention to history and 

 international law, on which he became a recog- 

 nized authority. His publications during this 

 later period include An Introduction to the 

 Study oj International Law, Essays on Divorce 

 and Divorce Legislation, Political Science and 

 Communism and Socialism. He resigned the 

 presidency in 1871, and for ten years thereafter 

 was chairman of the American commission for 

 the revision of the authorized version of the 

 Bible. 



WOONSOCKET, woon'soket, R. I., ranking 

 next to Providence as an industrial center, is 

 known for its manufacture of cotton and 

 worsted goods. It is in Providence County, in 

 the northeast corner of the state, sixteen miles 

 north and west of Providence, thirty-nine miles 

 southwest of Boston, on the Blackstone River 

 and on the New York, New Haven & Hartford 

 Railroad. There is also interurban service. 

 The population, which in 1910 was 38,125, had 

 increased to 44,360 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 

 Woonsocket contains Sacred Heart College, the 

 Harris Institute Library, a Y. M. C. A. build- 

 ing, public parks and a soldiers' monument. In 

 addition to its large cotton and woolen mills, 

 the city has rubber mills, wringer works a,nd 

 machine shops. The town was settled about 

 1666, was incorporated in 1867, and became a 

 city in 1888. Smithfield was annexed in 1871. 



WORCESTER, woos'ter, MASS., one of the 

 county seats of Worcester County (Fitchburg 

 being the other) and next to Boston the largest 

 afy in the state. It had a population of 145,- 

 886 in 1910 and of 163,314 (Federal estimate) 

 in 1916. In value of manufactured products 

 Worcester ranks third among the cities of the 

 state; a local estimate of the value of the fac- 

 tory output in 1916 was $110,000,000. It is a 

 little east of the center of the state, and is 

 forty-four miles southwest of Boston and fifty 

 miles northeast of Springfield. It is on the 

 Boston <fc Albany, the Boston & Maine and 

 the New York, New Haven & Hartford rail- 

 roads, and on interurban lines. 



The area of the city is thirty-seven square 

 miles. It is situated about 500 feet above sea 

 level, in a valley surrounded by low hills. The 

 ten parks, the largest of which are Green Hill 

 Park (500 acres), Lake Park (110 acres), in the 



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eastern part of the city, and Elm Park (86 

 acres), have a combined area of 1,000 acres. 

 Public buildings of note are a Federal build- 

 ing, a city hall, erected at a cost of $650,000, a 

 granite courthouse, the Central Public Library 

 and three branch libraries, the Library and 

 Museum of the American Antiquarian Society, 

 an art museum, erected and endowed by Ste- 

 phen Salisbury, a state armory, and Y. M. C. A. 

 and Y. W. C. A. -buildings. Splendid educa- 

 tional advantages are offered by Clark Uni- 

 versity, Clark College, College of the Holy 

 Cross, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worces- 

 ter Academy and a state normal school and 

 kindergarten training school. Here is located 

 the state insane asylum. The City, Memorial 

 and Saint Vincent are among the leading hos- 

 pitals. 



The manufactures of Worcester are varied. 

 The leading products are wire, machine tools 

 (6,000 men are employed in the manufacture of 

 the first, 12,000 in the manufacture of the sec- 

 ond), corsets, women's underwear, leather belt- 

 ing, automobile accessories, emery and abrasive 

 wheels, shoes, roller skates, envelopes, railway 

 cars, carpets, vacuum cleaners and thread. 

 The manufacture of woolen and worsted goods, 

 printing and publishing, and slaughtering and 

 meat packing are also important industries. 



About 1670 a settlement, Quinsigamond (or 

 Quansigamog) Plantation, was made here, but 

 was abandoned upon the outbreak of King 

 Philip's War in 1675. The place was settled 

 again in 1684, and the name was changed by 

 members of the company, who came from 

 Worcester, England. The settlement was 

 nearly destroyed by Indians in 1702, but sur- 

 vived, and in 1722 was incorporated as a town 

 and became a city in 1848. In Worcester and 

 the near vicinity have been the homes of a 

 number of noted inventors, among whom are 

 Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Samuel Crompton 

 and L. J. Knowles. W.J.D. 



WORDEN, wur'den, JOHN LORIMER (1818- 

 1897), the American naval officer who com- 

 manded the Monitor when that ship defeated 

 the Confederate ironclad Merrimac in Hamp- 

 ton Roads, on March 9, 1862. (A picture of 

 the two vessels is shown on page 3890.) Wor- 

 den was born in Westchester County, N. Y. 

 Having joined the navy as a midshipman at 

 the age of seventeen, he gave a good account 

 of himself and was commissioned a lieutenant 

 in 1846. During the famous fight' in Hampton 

 Roads he was partially blinded, but he con- 

 tinued in the service, and was later given com- 



