CONTENTS

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[INTRODUCTION] [xi]
Country Life Opportunity.
[Chapter I.]
THE RURAL PROBLEM [1]
Its Development and Present Urgency.
[Chapter II.]
COUNTRY LIFE OPTIMISM [33]
Rural Resources and the Country Life Movement.
[Chapter III.]
THE NEW RURAL CIVILIZATION [63]
Factors that Are Making a New World in the Country.
[Chapter IV.]
TRIUMPHS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE [91]
The Oldest of the Arts Becomes a New Profession.
[Chapter V.]
RURAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION [117]
Country Life Deficiencies and the New Cooperation.
[Chapter VI.]
EDUCATION FOR COUNTRY LIFE [151]
How Efficient Rural Citizenship Is Developed.
[Chapter VII.]
RURAL CHRISTIAN FORCES [173]
The Community-Serving Church and Its Allies.
[Chapter VIII.]
COUNTRY LIFE LEADERSHIP [225]
A Challenge to College Men and Women.
[APPENDIX] [269]
[INDEX] [277]

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Country Boy[Frontispiece]
Rural Schools in Daviess County, Ind.Facingpage[12]
An Abandoned Church""[18]
Rural Redirection""[48]
School Garden Work at Guelph, Canada""[82]
Plan of Macdonald Consolidated School Grounds""[86]
A Modern Fruit and Truck Farm""[98]
Pennsylvania Farm Land""[108]
Cooperation on the Playground""[134]
Types of Consolidated Schools""[158]
Vocational Training in Rural Schools""[162]
An Over-Churched Community""[184]
Presbyterian Church, Winchester, Ill.""[236]