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SCIENCE 



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ern scientific and civic progress and to general 

 education. 



Through all his busy years he lectured fre- 

 quently in America on educational and scien- 

 tific subjects and on special occasions in Eng- 

 land. His contributions were numerous to 

 periodicals and to the proceedings of the many 

 learned societies of which he was a member. 

 He was the author of two volumes upon man- 

 ual training, one published by Heath & Co., 

 the other in London and afterwards by the 

 Scribners. During the years of his retire- 

 ment he has written and published a notable 

 text-book of more than 500 pages upon ra- 

 tional and applied mechanics. Every page 

 shows the mature teacher and the clear log- 

 ician reasoning with his students. Though 

 published last year, the work is about to pass 

 to a second edition. 



It was fortunate for Mr. Eads, and for the 

 engineering fraternity as a whole, that, from 

 the bold inception to the triumphant comple- 

 tion of the St. Louis bridge, Dr. Woodward, 

 then an enthusiastic young professor in his 

 thirties, watched every operation and knew 

 the great work to the minutest details. He 

 went to the bottom of the piers, where men 

 were working under more than four atmos- 

 pheres of pressure. He was among the first 

 to walk the plank connecting the approaching 

 ends of the big middle arch. He knew the de- 

 signs, drawings, contracts and unusual tests 

 of material. With some of his students he 

 was a passenger on one of the fourteen locomo- 

 tives that tested the structure. When the 

 work was done, which to this day stands in a 

 class by itself. Captain Eads entrusted to 

 Professor Woodward the task of writing the 

 history of the achievement. This record oc- 

 cupied two busy years and remains an endur- 

 ing monument to its author and to James B. 

 Eads. At the time of its appearance it was 

 said to be the most important contribution 

 to engineering literature that had appeared 

 in America. The book is widely distributed 

 among the scientific libraries of the country; 

 but the original edition is nearly exhausted 

 and another will probably never be printed. 



About that time. Professor Woodward, im- 



pelled by the serious needs and deficiencies of 

 those of his students who were ambitious to be- 

 come engineers, conceived and developed the 

 manual-training idea. Upon this phase of his 

 work it is not necessary for us to dwell. 

 The innovation had many and bitter enemies, 

 for it was not then apparent how manual, 

 training could help in making educated men. 

 But a large section of the educational world 

 in America now believes in it and has adopted 

 it in many secondary schools as one element 

 in the formation of the efficient citizen. 



At a critical time in the development of the 

 University of Missouri Dr. Woodward was a 

 curator and president of the board. His serv- 

 ice at that time to higher education in his 

 state will never be forgotten. While the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition was in prog- 

 ress at St. Louis, Dr. Woodward was president 

 of the Aeronautical Congress which did much 

 to create a strong faith throughout the coun- 

 try that the conquest of the air was near at 

 hand, and he himself made important contri- 

 butions towards the solution of the problem. 



In 1894 Dr. Woodward was president of the 

 Society for the Promotion of Engineering 

 Education, and in 1909-10 he was president 

 of the North Central Association of Colleges 

 and Secondary Schools, the first time in the 

 history of that useful organization that a 

 college professor not of presidential rank pre- 

 sided over its deliberations. 



Dr. Woodward was chosen president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science for the meeting of 1906. That the 

 choice was a happy one no one could deny who 

 was fortunate enough to be present at the 

 opening session in New Orleans. Since the 

 Civil War this was the first visit of the Amer- 

 ican Association to a southern city. Southern 

 hosts and northern guests vied with each other 

 to make the occasion a delightful one. As 

 usual the first formal session of the meeting 

 was given up to courteous welcomes and re- 

 sponses. The splendid way in which Presi- 

 dent Woodward rose to the possibilities of 

 graceful speech none of those present will ever 

 forget. 



Dr. Woodward served his city conspicuously 



