The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life OpportunityFiske, George Walter
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The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life Opportunity
Fiske, George Walter
Sociology, Rural
Clark, F. E., 47
College graduates in the country:
men, 227-249
women, 249-264
Colleges, xiii
agricultural, 37, 51, 167-9, 231, 246-8
relation of to rural problem, 227
neglect of rural needs, 228
and rural leadership, 227-264
Columbia University Law School, 242, 243
Comenius, 165
Commission on country life, the, 51-56
Community building, 248
festivals, 136
Communities, classification of, 2
Conservation, 109
Consolidation of schools, 157-61
Cooperation in country communities, 84, 130-148, 218-30, 248, 249
in rural Denmark, 144-5
failures in, 121-5, 184
Cornell University, 227
agricultural department, 36, 38, 41, 245
law school, 242
Country boy, the, xii, 20, 22-25, 42, 154, 234
Country Boy's Creed, 35
Country life leadership, 223-266
movement, 18, 48-63, 86-7, 111, 233
attractiveness, 41, 86
deficiencies, 117-130
optimism, 33-59
Country, privilege of living in, 39
Country church evolution, stages in, 175
County work of the Y. M. C. A., 132, 167, 207-11
County secretary's opportunity:
men, 249-51
women, 261-3
Curriculum for rural high school, 162
Davenport, C. B., 16
Deaconess work, 256
Decadence, rural, 7
stages of, 13
Degeneracy, in city and country, 12, 14-17
Denmark, cooperation in, 144
Depletion, rural, 7, 11, 17
District nurse association, 252
District school system, 155
Doctors, need of country, 241, 251-3
Drudgery, emancipation from, 74-82
Dryden, John, 101
Dry farming possibilities, 107-8
Economics, household, 234
and country church, 187
Education for country life, 151-170
rural, 20, 82-3, 151-68, 231-4, 250
Educators, the call for rural, 232-4
women, 250
Efficiency, urban and rural, 91
Electricity on the farm, 79-81
Evergreen Sporting Association, 133
Eyerly, E. K., 142
Farm development, 92-3
life, 45-7
machinery, evolution of, 75-80
Farmers' Alliance, 50, 121
Farmers, conservatism of, 93-4, 118
needs of, 52
difficulty of organizing, 120
political ineffectiveness of, 121
Farmers' Institutes, 167
Farmers' National Congress, 50
Farmer's wife, neglect of the, 257
Foght, H. W., 156, 160, 234
Franklin, B., 49
Fruit growers, cooperation among, 141
Gardens, rural school, 163-5
Giddings, 12, 18
Girls in country, 20, 23, 24, 28, 261
Government cooperation, 167
Grange, the, 50, 137-8
Grinnell College, 237
Grover, E. O., 35
Gulick, L. H., 128
Hartt, R. L., 12
Harvard Medical School, 239
Hatch Act, the, 96-7
Hays, W. M., 100
Hill, J. J., 109
Hillsdale College, 227
Homes, remodeling rural, 259
Household economics, 257
Hutchins, H. L., 13
Illinois, University of, 227
agricultural department, 37-8
Immigrants and cooperation, 143
Indiana school law, 160
Individualism, rural, 117-120
Interdenominational commissions, 194-5
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