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

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ARE H M Let us defend our heritage of freedom Our American way of life has given us much. It has given us freedom of worship, protection of life and property, opportw nities for study, for wor , for play. It has given us an ideal — Democracy. That which we call democracy today is not per ' feet. It has its faults, which we see all too plainly. Democracy is more a goal toward which we advance than an accomplished fact. From time to time the pathway tc ward that goal is blocked with obstacles seemingly irisurmountable . Such obstacles confront our democratic peoples today. We are a nation at war. At times it seems that we are being forced to give up the very things for which we are fighting; at times our democracy seems to be tram ' pled under foot by the gods of war. But

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Nineteen Hundred and Forty ' Two HOOLMAAM PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF MADISON COLLEGE HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA Margaret Shelto Editor Elizabeth Edmonds Business Manager

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G R E U W E R I N the past achievements of our nation give us high faith and great hope that we shall overcome the barriers before us and shall, once more, in peaceful unity proceed to the heights to which we believe we as a nation were destined. We now not what the future holds, but we now that the Creator shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law. We, too, can wait and can pray, Thy will be done on earth. Meanwhile we are glad, glad, to have an opportunity to sacrifice and, if necessary, to fight for that which we feel is our birthright. One of the greatest manifestations of democracy in America today is the educa ' tional system. Here at Madison College, a part of that great system, we have the democratic idea in action. Each student is offered an equal opportunity to acquire nowledge, to cultivate her talents, to de- velop a fine sense of appreciation. She has a freedom in ma ing her choices. There is none of the regimentation of the totalita- rian states. We have tried in this boo to tell very simply the story of a year at Madison Col- lege — our college — named for James Madison, early protector of the democratic idea. In our story we draw no conclusions, we point no morals. Each student may do that for herself . We say: Here is the story of a year at school — a story whose events could have happened only where the demo- cratic idea exists. And we dedicate our story to THOSE MEN EVERYWHERE WHO ARE FIGHTING THAT DEMOCRACY MAY LIVE.