relating to
Professor Woodward:

"At the anniversary commencement of 1804, the Honorable Bezaleel
Woodward, professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, departed this life.
He had fulfilled the duties of a professor and Tutor from the
foundation of the college. His profound knowledge of the abstruse and
useful science of Mathematics, the facility of his instructions in
natural and experimental Philosophy and Ethics, his condescending and
amiable manners, will be long and gratefully remembered by those who
have received the benefit of his instructions."

The "Monthly Anthology and Massachusetts Magazine" for September,
1804, has the following notice of Professor Woodward:

"Died at Hanover, New Hampshire, August 25, Hon. Bezaleel Woodward,
Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy in Dartmouth College.
Professor Woodward was born at Lebanon, in the State of Connecticut.
In the twentieth year of his age he graduated at Yale College, 1764.
After a few years successfully employed in the ministry, he was
elected a tutor in this university. Here he soon displayed such
talents and improvements, such readiness of thought and ease of
communication, that he was appointed to the office of professor in
Mathematics and Philosophy. The dignity with which he discharged the
duties of his station is witnessed by all who have shared in his
instruction. In the civil department, and as a member of society, he
was no less eminent than as an instructor in college. We might also
add his usefulness in the church of Christ at this place, of which he
was long a worthy member, and high in the esteem and affections of his
Christian brethren.

"His remains were interred on Tuesday, the 28th. The Rev. Doctor Smith
delivered upon the occasion a well-adapted discourse. The officers,
Trustees, and members of the college joined as mourners with the
afflicted family, and the solemnities were attended by a very numerous
collection of friends and acquaintance.

"The alumni of Dartmouth will join with its present officers and
members in deploring the loss of a faithful and able instructor.
Those who visited him in his late illness have had a specimen of
decaying greatness, alleviated by an approving conscience, and
sustained by resignation and hope. The friends of science will lament
the departure of one of its enlightened patrons. Society sympathizes
with the bereaved family, retaining a lively sense of his public and
domestic virtues; and a numerous acq