Word: ruralization
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...Agriculture, the Rural Electrification Administration (now independent...
...among the lower income groups of the population, particularly in the rural areas, that collective medicine finds its most crying need. While state hospitals and charitable institutions have made enormous strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse...
...false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...
...opportunities among the states by grants from a federal fund and still refrain from interference with local policy. To tax one part of the country in order to support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools of the standard set elsewhere. In 1930 its farm population included 13 per cent of the nation's children, but its farmers produced only two per cent of the nation's income. If the youth of rural America...
...passage is of deep concern to Harvard. College standards are inseparably locked to those of the schools, and complementing. President Conant's desire to increase the geographical distribution of undergraduates is the need to improve possible college material in rural areas. It is unfortunate that because of their paucity applicants from Arkansas have a better chance of admission than those from Pennsylvania. To make its scope more national, Harvard depends on higher standards among Southeastern and Southwestern states. Equality of education throughout America is a boon to the colleges as well as the local communities, and equality depends upon...