Troy University - Palladium Yearbook (Troy, AL)

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Edward Madison Shackelford, A. M., LL. D.

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Edward Madison Shackelford President Shackelford presents himself to the students as a man of culture, dignity and lofty ideals. He exemplifies those principles of life for which the Normal School stands. His power of analysis, and logical thinking; his high sense of honor and justice, combined with rare executive ability, make him an ideal head of an institution of this kind. His large experience enables him, while seeing life in its larger aspects, not to ignore the smaller issues. As one who striyes for the correlation of secular and Christian education, with his own high Christian char- acter, he sets a most wholesome example which influences students to make better men and w omen. Our president wins the love, appreciation, and unqualified respect of the students by his firm and dignified, yet considerate, attitude; his untiring patience in assisting them oyer boulders and pitfalls of school life; his steadfastness, promptness, and sense of humor — in other words, for just what he is. Not only so, but he has won admiration of students, faculty, and friends of the institution by his untiring efforts against tremendous odds to make for us a better and bif er school. Then again, he is more than a local character. His influence in educational progress has been felt and is recognized throughout the state. Recently as president of the Alabama Educa- tional Association he has put on foot a movement for increasing the educational facilities in the state so that the children of Alabama may have equal chance with those of other states. He is laboring to bring about a new era of progress for the public schools of the state, that Alabama may stand equal to her sister states in educational rank. Fourteen

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The Ideals of Our School All great educational institutions, a; all strong individuals, have their particular ideals and philosophies. The Troy Normal is not an exception to this truth. The school not only requires thoroughness and accuracy in its academics, but it is reasonable in expecting the subscription to these ideal: beffore sponsoring, to the fullest extent, its students and alumni. The educated man is the man with certain subtle, spiritual qualifications which make him calm in adversity, happy when alone, just in his dealings, sane in the fullest meaning of that - .vord, in all the affairs of his life. It is pleasant to t iink of the educ ated man as being a hater of hypocrisy and sham, possessing a keen and deep sympathy, evidencing an attitude of tolerance and a spirit of simplicity and hopefulness, feeling that the length of things is -canity; only their depth is joy. Such are the ideals and philosophies of this institution. To the implantation and develop- ment of these ideals, it is purposed to reveal the prepotentialities of the mind, the installation of the consciousness of each one ' s standing on holy ground, and to set the student dreaming, asleep in the lap of legends old . — Jso. A. Broxjon. Sixteen