Word: ruralization
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Five Harvard men are among the editors of a new scientific quarterly, the Journal of Rural Sociology, which will begin publication in April...
...cooperation with the government of Siam, a Harvard expedition has just completed a two year survey of economic, medical, and anthropological conditions of the rural areas. The ruins of one of the largest known Indian pueblo villages in the southwest are being investigated by the Arizona expedition with the hope of revealing many secrets of American Indian history in that region. The racial
Lida Josephine Usilton of the U. S. Public Health Service, who compiled these figures, believes that there is more venereal disease proportionately in small rural communities than in big cities. She estimates that there are approximately 493,000 individuals constantly under treatment or observation for gonorrhea and 683,000 for syphilis...
After the Civil War pictures, there followed a series of rural scenes, highly admired by Homer's contemporaries. Then, in 1881, the artist went to England for two summers, began the paintings of fishermen, ships and waves by which he is now best remembered. On his return he joined his family at Prout's Neck, Me., a village which his father was trying to develop as a summer resort. Always chary of company, Winslow Homer now became practically a hermit...
...coach basketball, "Happy" returned to Transylvania for an A.B. in cost. The University of Kentucky made hima lawyer. Until 1927 he coached freshman football at Central College while he attended to law cases brought to him. He had been doing chores of all sorts since high school when a rural mailman turned him over to relatives...