James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Jjook C wo FACULTY means more to the students of Madison College than brief cases, term papers, special mannerisms, academic pro- cessions, or the group that files into chapel to sit apart on the left front. We fynow them also as instructors, interested in stu- dents, famous for individual conferences in busv offices; as sponsors of campus organi- zations, who hear all worries of inside details; as those with whom we share a jest in passing on the way to class; as inevitably the center of enthusiasm at the annual Home-Coming of Alumnae. F AC U L

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School maaw The PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE Samuel Page Duke President MADISON COLLEGE On March 8, 1938, Governor James H. Price signed Senate Bill No. 14, which completed its pas- sage through the General Assembly on February I 7th. This bill provided that the State Teachers Colhge at Harrisonburg, Virginia, should, after June 21, I 938, be known as Madisoi College. This name was selected in boror of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States and a native of Virginia. James Madison was. his entire lifetime, a vigorous advocate of both popular education of the masses and of higher education of our leaders, both men and women. The educational philosophy of Madison may be summed up in this statement of his: A popular gov- ernment without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.