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Charles Henshaw Ward
Scott, Foresman and Company, 1917
English language
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Charles Henshaw Ward was an American writer and teacher.
Background
Charles Henshaw Ward was the third child and son of the four children of Thomas Walter and Clarinda Maria (Clary) Ward. He was descended from William Ward, one of the early settlers of Sudbury, Massachussets, where he is known to have been in 1640. Thomas Walter Ward, a Civil War veteran, born in Massachusetts, moved to Chicago and then to Nebraska. Here, at Norfolk, a town so remote and isolated that he did not see a train until he was six years old, Charles Henshaw was born. About 1889 the family moved to California.
Education
The boy early showed signs of intellectual promise, and the meager resources of the family were enlisted to send him to college. At Pomona College, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1896. Whenever he found any free time it was spent in graduate study. Yale awarded him the degree of A. M. in English in 1899.
Career
He displayed a deep interest in biology, but when he graduated the best position he could find was an English instructorship at the Thacher School, Ojai, Cal. At Yale his record was such that he was invited to teach at the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, where he remained from 1903 until 1922. He began his writing career in 1916 with the publication of a grammar text entitled What Is English? For the next eighteen years he continued to write and edit elementary textbooks of grammar and English. The best-known and most lucrative of these, Sentence and Theme, was designed for the first year of high school. Published in 1917, it enjoyed a rapid and astonishing success. Within a few years it sold over a million copies. Having achieved financial independence, Ward began to think of indulging in the luxury of a literary career. He resigned from regular teaching in 1922 and retired to New Haven to write for a larger and more mature public. He continued to produce his textbooks under the name of C. H. Ward, and in 1925 he made his début before the general public with his Evolution for John Doe. This book, published in the midst of the general interest created by William Jennings Bryan and the Tennessee "monkey trial, " found a wide and enthusiastic audience. It was a sound, dramatic exposition of the scientific facts of organic evolution; it remains the best simple and accurate statement of the subject. This was followed, in 1926, by Thobbing: A Seat at the Circus of the Intellect. Here Ward strongly indicted the "thobbers, " persons who think unscientifically, without understanding or curiosity, hold an opinion because they like it and, in general, believe what is most handy and convenient. It was clear and provocative - an effective attack against pretentious, sentimental thinking. In 1927 he published two books. One of these, Charles Darwin: The Man and His Warfare, presents no new facts but is a graceful and vivid summary of Darwin's research and observations and of the public's reception of The Origin of Species. The other, Exploring the Universe, deals with the incredible discoveries of science. It does not go into this wide field very deeply, but treats everything it handles with a lively imagination that makes the book highly readable and some parts of it violently exciting. As he grew older Ward became more indignant against intellectual shams. He gave vent to this feeling by the publication in 1931 of Builders of Delusion: A Tour among Our Best Minds. This is a strong plea for the scientific method in thinking and an exposure of a variety of intellectual frauds and "humbugs, " a number of which had found wide public acceptance. Elmer Davis called it "a terrible and dangerous book, " and some churchmen reacted violently to it, but it found general critical acceptance. Ward died at his New Haven home after a ten-day illness of pneumonia.
Achievements
He was famous foe his works such as Evolution for John Doe, The Origin of Species and others.
He was a modest and retiring person, living in a world of books and ideas. He loved to seize upon an idea, dissect and analyze it, and then expound it with lucidity and with pungent phrase. In the classroom he was unexcelled. He won the admiration of the serious students by the force of his ideas; he stimulated even the dull and the uncurious by the manner in which he presented his materials.
Connections
He had married Florence Humphreys Jones on July 9, 1926.
