l, 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

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