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ganized, similar to the medical and bar associ- 

 ations, which would be an influential force in 

 improving the conditions under which our 

 work is done. It should not be forgotten that 

 the maintenance of high standards in the uni- 

 versity is as important for the community as 

 for the professor, and his efforts on its behalf 

 are by no means narrowly selfish. The future 

 of the American university does not depend 

 upon its machinery, but upon its men. The 

 danger of a bad system is that it may gradu- 

 ally demoralize the spirit and ideals of the men 

 working under it, and may keep from it or 

 drive from it the kind of men who are needed. 

 When a speaker has only twenty minutes in 

 which " to set the crooked straight," he can 

 not be expected to devote much time to ex- 

 plaining that it is not so very crooked and is 

 made of sound timber. The university is the 

 noblest monument which we have inherited 

 from the past and at the same time the most 

 powerful engine driving forward our civiliza- 

 tion. We owe to it the tribute of truth and 

 the duty of service. It is our part to make it 

 a democracy of scholars serving the larger 

 democracy to which it belongs. 



J. McKeen Cattell 



CALVIN MILTON WOODWARD 

 Calvin Milton Woodwaed was born in 

 Fitchburg, Mass., on August 25, 1837. He was 

 graduated from Harvard in 1860 with the de- 

 gree of A.B. and with the honor of member- 

 ship in Phi Beta Kappa. In 1905 Washington 

 University, and in 1908 the University of 

 Wisconsin, conferred upon him the degree of 

 LL.D. 



During 1860-65 he was principal of the New- 

 buryport, Mass., high school. In 1862 he was 

 granted leave of absence for one year. Dur- 

 ing this period he served first as lieutenant 

 and then as captain of a company in the 48th 

 Massachusetts Volunteers. His regiment 

 helped patrol the Mississippi in Louisiana and 

 was under fire in the siege and storming of 

 Port Hudson. 



In 1865 he came to St. Louis, where in the 

 service of Washington University and of his 



adopted city and state he passed the last 

 forty-nine years of an active, energetic and 

 fruitful career. At first he was the vice-prin- 

 cipal of the academic department. In 1866 he 

 was doing college work and was principal of 

 the O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute. In 1868, 

 under the authority of the university corpo- 

 ration, he began the organization of an engi- 

 neering department. In 1870 he was made 

 Thayer professor of mathematics and applied 

 mechanics, and dean of the polytechnic fac- 

 ulty. In 1880 the St. Louis Manual Train- 

 ing School was opened, with Dean Woodward, 

 its organizer, as director, and immediately it 

 became the educational novelty of St. Louis, 

 and for that matter, of America. 



From this time, with some minor changes, 

 he held until 1896 the positions of Thayer 

 professor of mathematics and applied mechan- 

 ics, dean of the engineering school and direc- 

 tor of the manual training school. He re- 

 signed the deanship in 1896, but resumed the 

 duties of that office in 1901 and again from 

 that time carried his threefold official title 

 until his final retirement from active service 

 in the summer of 1910. He had remained in 

 the harness until the close of his seventy-third 

 year, when he retired upon the Carnegie Foun- 

 dation. " His eye was not dim and " appar- 

 ently, " his natural force was not abated." 

 Four more happy years came to him in liter- 

 ary work, on educational boards and in the 

 free use of his time and talent in the lecture 

 field. On January 10, just passed, he was ac- 

 tively at work in behalf of a philanthropic 

 enterprise which had deeply interested him for 

 two or three years when the cerebral lesion at- 

 tacked him which on January 6 proved fatal. 

 After a private funeral service at the house. 

 January 12, there was held at the church of 

 which Dr. Woodward was an active member 

 a memorial service at which Dr. Dodson, his 

 pastor, Mr. Langsdorf, his pupil and colleague, 

 as well as his successor as dean, Mr. W. A. 

 Layman, president of the Wagner Electric 

 Company, and Mr. Ben. Blewett, city superin- 

 tendent of public instruction, spoke of his 

 services to society, to the university, to mod- 



