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in many matters pertaining to its growth and 

 development. At one time the city census was 

 questioned and he was chosen superintendent 

 to repeat and verify it. He was always ready 

 and forcible in the discussion of the engi- 

 neering problems of the city, and served terms 

 as president of both the St. Louis Engineers 

 Olub and of the St. Louis Academy of Science. 

 As a member of the city school board and sev- 

 eral times as its president, he has given char- 

 acter and direction to the public school sys- 

 tem of St. Louis. 



Professor Woodward married Fanny S. 

 Balch, of Newburyport, Mass., in September, 

 1863. She survives him together with three 

 daughters, two of whom are married. His 

 home life was an ideal one ; to enter within its 

 circle was always a privilege. 



In hasty review we have selected only a few 

 of the instances where Calvin Milton Wood- 

 ward has come prominently before the coun- 

 try. The story of a long life of cheerful labor 

 and distinguished service in the college halls 

 can never be told. There is no tangible rec- 

 ord of the daily lessons enforced with an un- 

 failing and overflowing spirit of optimism. 

 But it is this work and this spirit that pro- 

 duce a sure and lasting effect upon the lives of 

 students. Just as the gentle sunshine is the 

 most potent force in nature, so the efficient 

 teacher, who on the whole is quite often an 

 object of condescending sympathy in our so- 

 cial state, is nevertheless the mightiest agent 

 in the progress and development of society, 

 for he is developing its coming leaders and, 

 therefore, more than any other agency, is shap- 

 ing its destiny. Happy is that teacher who 

 knows his power and lives true to his high 

 calling. His name may soon be forgotten, but 

 the essence of his life and labor passes on 

 from heart to heart and from generation to 

 generation. 



Such a man was Dr. Woodward. As a 

 teacher he lived. As a teacher he sought his 

 life's reward. A little more than a year ago 

 in a company where were many of his former 

 students he expressed his conviction that no 

 epitaph could more highly honor him than 



the simple statement " He was a teacher of 

 men." 



C. A. Waldo 



Washington Univeesity, 

 St. Louis 



SOBEBT KENNEDY DUNCAN 

 By the death on February 18 of Dr. Eobert 

 Kennedy Duncan, director of the Mellon In- 

 stitute of Industrial Eesearch of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh, American science lost one 

 of its most illustrious devotees. Dr. Duncan. 

 was known to the public at large in. two im- 

 portant lines of service. First, as an inter- 

 preter of science, in which branch he was 

 preeminent; he gave life to the most abstruse 

 things of cold science and made them of in- 

 tense interest. His books, " The New Knowl- 

 edge," " The Chemistry of Commerce " and 

 " Some Chemical Problems of To-day," while 

 of the highest scientific accuracy, are so 

 written as to hold the reader's sustained at- 

 tention to the end. The other line in which 

 he will be remembered is as the originator of 

 the unique system of the service of science to 

 industry. Dr. Duncan felt that he was for- 

 tunate in being able to live to see this system 

 established on a permanent basis in the Mellon 

 Institute of Industrial Research. With his 

 usual farsightedness he carefully trained those 

 who were to take his place when he was gone 

 and the institute embodying the system he 

 originated will go on as a living monument 

 to its founder. 



Certain of the ideas he had in mind ia 

 working out a practical method whereby the 

 learning of the university could be brought 

 to the service of industry are interesting, in 

 that they show prominent traits of his char- 

 acter. He once told me that he experienced 

 the keenest pleasure of achievement when he 

 thought of the opportunities he was able to 

 oifer to young men through the working of 

 this system. He loved to speak of his labora- 

 tory as a center of opportunity for young 

 men. And that fact really radexes the key- 

 note of his character. He was absolutely un- 

 selfish. He sought nothing for himself and 

 was continually trying to advance his " boys," 



