[38] "The Annals of the Am. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Sci.," March, 1912, p. 177. [39] "Country Life," p. 155. [40] "The Country Church and the Rural Problem," p. 131. [41] Forty-six out of 166 medical colleges have been closed in very recent years and the entrance requirements of many others raised, with a strong tendency to make a college course prerequisite. [42] Also a few of the _third_ generation. For eighty years Oberlin has offered women, equally with men, its privileges of higher education; and in 1908 conferred the honorary degree of doctor of divinity upon a distinguished woman-minister, an alumna both in arts and theology a half century before. [43] Disciples, Congregational, Methodist Episcopal, Unitarian, Baptist, Universalist, Free Baptist, Free Methodist, Evangelical Association, Christian Brethren, Methodist Protestant, Christian, Evangelical Lutheran, Seventh Day Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist, Dunkard, United Brethren, Methodist Episcopal South, Presbyterian and African Methodist Episcopal. [44] Ninety-five and two-tenths per cent. of the 300,000 rural homes in Ohio last year had no bathtub. [45] From "The Religion Worth Having," Thomas Nixon Carver, p. 137. [46] Issue of the "Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science," March, 1912. INDEX INDEX Abandoned farms, 6 Adelbert College, 227 Agriculture, scientific, 95, 98-109 government patronage of, 246-8 triumphs of scientific, 91-113 teaching of, 163, 241-8, 251 U. S. Department of, 96-8 Agricultural colleges, 37, 51, 167-9, 231, 246-8, 251 professions, opportunities in, 246-8 societies, 50 Allies of the country church, 203-220 Anderson, W. L., 11, 43, 174 Animals and plants, breeding of, 100-4 Automobiles in the country, 72-4 Bailey, L. H., 22, 41, 42, 56 Bible study in the country, 206 Birth rate and rural depletion, 127 Boardman, J. R., 134 Boston University Law School, 242 Bowdoin College, 226 Boys and girls and the farm, 22 Breeding, achievements in scientific, 100-4 Burbank, L., 102 Business cooperation, 122, 139-145 Butterfield, K. L., 117, 120, 218-9, 237 California Fruit Growers' Exchange, 143 Canada, 10, 101, 102, 157-8, 164, 253, 256 Carver, T. N., 76, 98, 122, 187, 263 Cazenovia church, 214 Challenge to college men, 227-49 to college women, 249-63 to faith, 27 of the difficult, 45-7 Christian forces, rural, 173-223 Church in the country, necessity for, 173-4 opportunity and function of, 173-183 elements of weakness, 183-5 factors which determine its efficiency, 185-203 types of success, 213-19 must serve its community, 189-91 Church efficiency, 178 equipment, 200 finances, 198-200 ideals, old and new, 176 unity and federation, 193-5 City, the, xii, 46, 152-4, 230-1 and country, 4, 18, 25, 46, 63-5 and its boys, 33, 37 City life drawbacks, 39 Cities, growth of, 4