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]
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]
Irrigation, [104-8]
Irvine, Dean, [242]
Irving, W., [43]
Isolation, triumph over, [65-74]
Israel, Henry, [211]
Kansas, University of, [226]
Kern, O. J., [161]
Law faculties quoted, [244-5]
Lawyers, country, [244-6]
Librarian, opportunity of the village, [256]
Libraries, public, [134], [166], [256]
Leadership, city, [xi], [1], [230]
country, [120-1], [227-265], [231]
woman’s, in the country, [249-64]
Literature, rural, [166-7], [264-75]
Machinery, agricultural, [74-81]
power, [79]
Maclaren, Ian, [243]
Manikowski, G., [79-81]
Mann, Horace, [155]
Mann, A. R., [245]
Marietta College, [226]
Marshall county churches, [125]
Masculine church leadership, [201]
Massachusetts Agricultural College, [37], [38], [168]
McElfresh, F., [207]
Means, Dean, [242]
Medical faculties, quoted, [241-4]
rural practice [241-4]

Meyer, Dean, [248]
Michigan University Law School, [242]
Minimum wage for rural ministers, [198]
Ministry, the rural, [196-9]
the call to, [235-40]
the modern type of, [237]
women in the, [253]
Missouri, University of, agri. dept., [37], [199]
Morality and the play spirit, [129]
Mormon irrigation work, [106]
Nam’s Hollow case, [15]
Nature, partnership with, [43]
Neighborhood house, [133], [257]
New England, [8], [9], [17]
New rural civilization, the, [117-145]
Newspapers, [72]
New York State College of Agriculture, [36], [45], [168], [245]
North Carolina Agricultural College, [37]
Nurses, need of, in country, [252]
Oberlin College and Seminary, [230], [237], [254]
Oberlin, J. F., [68], [188], [216-18]
Ohio Medical School, [240]
Ohio State University, [227]
Pacific University, [226]
Pastors, few resident in country, [253]
Patrons of industry, [50]
Pepin County Cooperative Co., [139]
Physicians, call for country, men, [240-4,]
women, [251-3]
Physicians and Surgeons, College of, [240]
Plainfield church, [214-5]
Play, the gospel of, [134], [233]
Playground Association of America, [135]
Plow, evolution of the, [77-9]
Plunkett, Sir H., [26], [144], [152]
Political ineffectiveness of farmers, [121]
Power of machinery on the farm, [79-81]
Princeton University, [226]
Quaintance, H. W., [74]
Railroads, steam and electric, [69]
Reading courses for farmers’ wives, [257]
Recreation and organized play, [128], [233-4]

Religious cooperation, lack of, [123]
plans for, [193-5]
Right Relationship League, [141]
Roads, C., [70]
Roads, country, [13], [68-70]
Roberts, A. E., [211]
Robertson, J. W., [157]
Roosevelt, T., [40], [51-3], [135]
Rural Manhood, [135], [167]
Rural problem, the, [2], [19], [1-32], [51-4]
losses, [5], [7], [8], [11]
gains, [5], [8]
degeneracy, [12], [14-17]
contentment, [35-36], [65]
sincerity and neighborliness, [44]
self-respect, [63-5]
individualism, [117-120]
progress, [54], [63], [86-7], [134], [110-1]
culture centers, [258]
agencies for betterment, [56-8], [84-6]
postal service, [71]
opportunities for social reconstruction, [117-145]
morals and recreation, [125]
Rural progress associations, [133]
Saunders, W., [102]
School, rural problems of the, [156-8]
inferior equipment and support, [154]
building, [156-7], [161-2]
centralization, [157-61]
a social center, [137]
School improvement leagues, [165]
School teachers, men, [231-3], [250]
women, [250]
Scientific agriculture, [91-117]
Scudder, M. T., [136], [230]
Secretary, County Work, [249-59], [263]
Sectarian divisions, [192], [193], [196]
Smythe, W. E., [105]
Social reconstruction, [117-145]
Social consciousness, the new rural, [83]
Social life, lack of, [125-7,]
plans for, [134-7]
Socialization, community, [130-2], [189]
initiative in, [132]
plan for, [133]
South, country life in the, [64], [204]

Stone, H. F., [243]
Strong, Josiah, [13], [17], [229]
Student recruits for the ministry, [237]
Student volunteer bands, [237]
Stanford University, [226]
Sunday-schools, rural, [203-7]
Surveys, community, [202]
Swaney School, the, [161-2]
Teachers in country schools, [152-4], [232-4], [250]
Telephones, rural, [66-8]
Text-books, [152-3]
Theological study for women, [255]
Trolleys, rural, [70]
United Christian forces, [191]
Unsocial streak, rural, [118-9]
Urbanizing of rural life, [20], [152-4]
Washington, George, [49]
Washington State College of Agriculture, [244]
Whitman College, [226]
Williams College, [226]
Wilson, W. H., [14], [128], [163], [198], [202], [253]
Woman’s opportunity in rural leadership, [249-263]
responsibility in rural education, [250]
Women, nurses and physicians, [251]
in the service of the church, [253-5]
college graduates, [254-64]
Young Men’s Christian Associations, [132], [167], [207-211], [248-251]
Young Women’s Christian Associations, [212], [261-3]

Footnotes:

[1] This loss however was in the early half of the decade, as the state census shows.

[2] For the year ending March 31, 1910, 103,798 immigrants from the United States settled in western Canada, while only 59,790 came from Great Britain and Ireland. The wealth of the immigrants settling in western Canada during the five years previous to that date was estimated as follows. British, cash, $37,546,000; effects, $18,773,000. From United States, cash, $157,260,000; effects, $110,982,000.—The Toronto Globe, July 27, 1912.

[3] “The Country Town,” p. 76.

[4] Principles of Sociology, Giddings, p. 348.

[5] “The Church in the Open Country,” p. 9.