James Madison University - Index

James Madison University - Liberty & Learning - Index

piedmont, princeton, and an educated citizenry
31 Many of Madison’s contemporaries, including John Marshall, James Monroe, and Alexander Hamilton,
served with distinction in the Continental Army.
32 Madison to William Barry, August 4, 1822, in Jack Rakove, James Madison Writings (New York, Pen-
guin Press, 1999), 791.
33 Thomas Jefferson to P. J. duPont, April 24, 1816. Available at http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/
brf/jefl243.htm.
34 George Washington’s Eighth Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1796. Available at http://
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/sou/washs08.htm
35 Ibid.
36 Madison quoted in Philip Bigler, “The Power Which Knowledge Gives,” Madison, the James Madison
University Magazine 29, no.3 (2006): 40. Available at http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/2006-
Summer.shtml. George Washington was keenly aware of his lack of formal education.
37 Ibid., 40.
38 Madison quoted in James Morton Smith, 1821.
39 Madison to William Barry, August 4, 1822, in Rakove, Writings, 791.
40 Thomas Jefferson quoted at http://www.monticello.org/reports/quotes/uva.html.
41 Thomas Jefferson to P. J. duPont, April 24, 1816. Available at http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/
brf/jefl243.htm.
42 Madison quoted in Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography (Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press, 1990) 652.
43 Ibid., 652.
44 Alan Pell Crawford, Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random
House, 2008), 150, 152.
45 Thomas Jefferson quoted in James Morton Smith, 1819-1820.
46 To live on the Lawn is considered the supreme honor for University of Virginia students. Previous residents
have included Edgar Allan Poe, Woodrow Wilson, Ralph Sampson, and Katie Couric. The University’s website
notes: “It is considered an honor at the University to live in one of the prestigious Lawn rooms. Located in Mr. Jefferson’s
original buildings, these rooms are truly in the center of the University. The setting is the beautiful Lawn,
probably the most popular place for students to relax, study, and play. There are rooms for 104 students. Living on
the Lawn is restricted to undergraduate degree applicants in their final year of study at the University. The rooms
are furnished with a bed, desk, wardrobe, bookcase, rocking chair, and blinds on the windows. Additionally, most
rooms have a fireplace. No air conditioning, kitchen, computer rooms or study lounges are available; however, students
can find whatever is needed just a few steps from their doors.” See the Housing Division of the University of
Virginia’s Web site at: http://www.virginia.edu/housing/options.php?id=lawn&type=transfer.
47 John Adams quoted in Garry Wills, Mr. Jefferson’s University (Washington, D.C., National Geo-
graphic Society, 2002), 141.
48 Thomas Jefferson quoted in Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello (Boston,
Little, Brown and Company, 1981), 1919.
49 Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, October 13, 1825, available on Microfilm, The Jefferson Papers
of the University of Virginia 1732-1828 Main Series III.
50 Henry Tutwiler quoted in James Morton Smith, 1920.
51 Pendleton Hogan, The Lawn: A Guide to Jefferson’s University (Charlottesville, Rector and Board of
Visitors, 1996), 68.
52 L. Wagoner Jennings, “Honor and Dishonor at Mr. Jefferson’s University: The Antebellum Years,”
History of Education Quarterly 26, no. 2, (1986): 175. Jefferson wrote to Joseph Coolidge shortly before
his death: “Our University is going on well. The students have sensibly improved since the last year in
habits of order and industry. Occasional instances of insubordination have obliged us from time to time
to strengthen our regulations to meet new cases. But the most effectual instrument we have found to be
the civil authority the terrors of indictment, fine imprisonment binding to the good behavior … I suppose
the more easily, as at the age of 16. It is high time for youth to begin to learn and to practice the duties of
obedience to the laws of their country.” Available on Microfilm The Jefferson Papers of the University of
Virginia 1732-1828 Main Series III.
53 Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, February 17, 1826, in James Morton Smith, 1966-1967. Madison
and Jefferson exchanged a few more letters, but they were unremarkable.
54 Madison to William Barry, August 4, 1822, in Rakove, Writings, 791.
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