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trained by the professor in practical handling of compass, theodolite,
and sextant; and then each led his division to out-door work, taking
the various instruments in turn. He was also able to invest even
Analytical Geometry and Integral Calculus with charms for some of the
class. One student came from a private interview in a high state of
enthusiasm over the eloquent suggestiveness of formulae in the
vocabulary of Calculus.

"Written examinations, now so common, were among the methods
introduced into his department by Professor Woodman, and that class
still remembers the spectacles quietly adjusted, that his
near-sightedness might not encourage an illicit use of + and -, and
the rigid silence which shut them up to the simple problems written
upon the blackboard, notwithstanding adroit questions, ostensibly
innocent and necessary.

"In the Chandler Scientific School, to which Professor Woodman was
afterwards assigned, he was specially qualified to do good work,
because of his thorough mastery of Mathematics by perceptions almost
intuitive. Thoroughly at home in its principles, loving them, and
honestly loving his pupils, he could luminously and patiently teach
the application of those principles in practice, however minute and
detailed.

"Mention of Professor Woodman as an instructor would be incomplete,
were there no allusion to the force and influence of his character as
a man, transparently honest, and grandly true. He taught well from
text-books, but his life, so unaffectedly simple and just, gave
better, deeper, and more lasting instruction."

An associate in the Faculty says:

"Professor Woodman becoming somewhat weary of the continuous and
laborious drill of young men in a department not generally
appreciated, and feeling a renewed desire to return to the practice of
law, resigned his professorship, and removed to Boston for that
purpose. After a year's experience of the practice, or desire of
practice, of law, the professor was ready to return to his field of
labor in the college. His former department was no longer open, the
place having been filled, on his resignation, by the appointment of
Professor Patterson. He was, therefore, appointed Professor of Civil
Engineering in the Chandler Scientific School. On entering upon his
duties, he was made the chief executive officer, under the president,
of the department, and continued to hold that relation to the school
till his death. Professor Woodman p