University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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Horace B. Woodworth, B. A. PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY T the close of the last school year Professor Horace B. VVoodworth, who had been a member of the University Faculty since 1885, relinquished his active work in the institution and became Professor Emeritus of History. Prof. VVoodworth is a V ermonter by birth. He graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1854 and for some years following was a teacher in various New England academies. He graduated from Hartford tConn.j Theological Seminary in 1861 and for more than twenty years served as a pastor of various Congrega- tional churches in Connecticut and Iowa. In the early eighties his health became impaired through long service in the pulpit and he removed to South Dakota and l lt of his farm life in engaged in farming. His health greatly improved as tie resu South Dakota. ln 1885 he became a member of the faculty of the recently organized State University of North Dakota and from that time to this he has been a familiar Hgure about our buildings and grounds and his name has become a house- hold word with the thousands of students who have attended the University during ' ' l.'l the last twenty years. Professor VVoodworth is a typical Yankee. ice most Yankees of the best type lie is notable for his common sense, his ready and keen wit, his philosophical temper, his readv adaptabllity, and his willingness at all times to do the thing which duty demands and to throw himself into it with all his powers. To hundreds of the older students and graduates of the University Pro- fessor Wooclwortli's personality has been such an inspiration as is rarely found within colle - e walls. His great versatility is evidenced by the fact that at various . Q s tunes during his connection with the University he taught Mathematics, Physics, Pedagogy, Ethics, Philosophy and History. He would be the last to claim for . P I himself great scholarship in all or any of these subjects. but he taught them all with such careful preparation, with such fidelity and with such devotion, not to say consecration that his pupils doubtless received far more of benefit from lns . . 1. F C s instruction than they might have received from the most scholarly specm ists. or 7 several vears prior to his retirement Professor Wooclxvortli s work was confined . ,, . . to the department of Historv. He is the author of a widely used Civil Govern- ment of North Dakota. During the nineteen years that he was connected with the University he prepared and read many papers on educational topics before our . . . I I county and state educational associations and was a frequent and most acceptaa e speaker at hi h school commencements and various reli ions and social atherin s. g , , 2 After an unusually busy life unselfishly devoted to the nnprovement of his fellows in the broad fields of education and religion, Professor Woodworth is enjoying a well earned rest at the home of his,daughter. Mrs. Gordon, in Minneapolis. He carries with him into his retirement the respect, the love and the best wishes of the thou .n ls of University students who, directly or indirectly, came under his sa c influence at the University of North Dakota, as well as of those who served with him at various times as co-workers on the University Faculty. 27

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HORACE B. WOODWORTH

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College of Law ANIJRIQW A. ISRUCIC, M. A., LL. B. llli.XN imp PROIFESSOR or ,xc:1zNev,, 1mx11xt:1cs, e.x1z1z11a1as. CONS'l'l'l'U'l'lllNAl. 1.Aw, 1'UllI,lC l'Ul.ItfY ANU ttoM1s1oN 1..xw 1'l.EAllING. Professor llrnee received his degree from the University of VVisconsin: practiced law in Chicago for six yearsg in 1897 was Professor in the Chicago Law School: in 1898 he hecanie Assistant Professor of Law in l1is Alma Mater, resigning in 1902 to accept the position as Professor in the University Law School: elected to his present position in IQO4. HON. GUY C. ll. CORIJSS. l'Rt7l'lCSSUR or Tours, t'0Nlfl.ll'T or 1..xws AND E9U1'1'Y. Mr. Corliss was admitted to the har in 1879. He practiced law i11 tl1e liast until 1886, when he caine to Grand Forks: llL'C?llllC the hrst Chief Justice of the Supreme Conrt i11 1889 and served on the hench until 1898. judge Corliss hecanie Dean of the. College of Law at its inception in 1889, which position he held llllfll he resigned i11 IQO4. I.. li. HIRDZELL, LL. B. 1Ns'1'1zUc'1'o1z IN 'run co1.1.1-:c:1-: or LAW. Mr. Birdzell received his college training and legal education at tl1e University of lllinois. After receiving his degree in IQO3, he was engaged in tl1e practice of his profession i11 Chicago until last fall, when he took np his present work. 28