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WOODWARD, Calvin Milton,
educator, born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 25 August, 1837. He was graduated at
Harvard in 1860, and became principal of Brown high-school in Newburyport,
Massachusetts. During the civil war he was captain in the 48th Massachusetts
volunteers, taking part in the siege and capture of Port Hudson under General
Nathaniel P. Banks. In 1865 he was chosen vice-principal of the Smith academy of
Washington university, St. Louis, and in 1868 he was appointed assistant
professor of mathematics in that university, where since 1870 he has held the
chair of mathematics and applied mechanics, also since 1870 he has been dean of
its polytechnic school. He planned and organized in 1879 the manual
training-school as a subordinate department of the university without resigning
his other duties, and has filled the directorship of this school from the first.
The St. Louis manual training-school is the pioneer of its kind in America, and
has served as the model in organizing other similar schools, in consequence of
which Professor Woodward's expositions of the aims and value of manual training
have had the widest influence in shaping the new education both at home and
abroad.
He was a member of the school
board of St. Louis in 1878-'80, and president of the St. Louis engineer club in
1883-'4. Professor Woodward was president of the industrial department of the
National educational association in 1882-'4, and vice-president of the American
association for the advancement of science in 1888, presiding over the section
oil mechanical science. In 1885 he was invited to present a paper on "Malmal
Training" before the educational conference in Manchester, England, and
afterward he visited the educational institutions of Europe. He has written a
large number of papers on mathematical subjects and manual training, which he
has contributed to scientific journals and other periodicals. His books are
“History of the St. Louis Bridge" (St. Louis, 1882), and "The Manual
Training-School: its Aims, Methods, and Results" (Boston, 1887).
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