Word: ruralization
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Pastmaster at exorcising goatish emanations from rural England's maids, meadows, men and mud, Author Powys sticks to his increasingly familiar incantation like a leech. As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar. Only one newcomer is in the book, Last Comer Death...
...come into closer physical proximity, the spiritual common interests widen perceptibly. In the jostle and activity of our large cities, people lose some of their humaneness, and become calloused toward their fellow men. In the city men don't know or care about their next door neighbor, rural life alone develops human warmth of personality," Dr. Richard Thurnwarld, psychologist and sociologist of the University of Berlin, and visiting professor at Yale, declared in an interview yesterday...
...Voted to report a bill appropriating $500,000 the first year and $1,000,000 for each succeeding year to promote rural maternity and infant health work...
Counties. The status of rural teachers is generally considered to be low. Appatently the maintenance of salary schedules varies with the population of the community, with such appalling exceptions as Chicago. Some scattered news of rural schools: In Bledsoe County, Tenn., not a school is open. It was predicted that one-third of all Tennessee's schools would be closed. In Cape May County, N. J., 215 teachers have not been paid since December. In Wisconsin, no district with a population over 1,000 is expected to cut salaries. Cuts were expected in 20 out of 22 Oklahoma counties...
Professor C. C. Zimmerman, who returned this fall from an extensive governmental survey of agricultural conditions in Siam, will give Sociology 8 and 13 on "Rural Sociology", and "Sociology and the Family". Sociology 1 will be conducted exclusively by Professor Sorokin next year while Professor L. J. Henderson '98 will give a special seminary on the sociological theories of Pareto, assisted by C. P. Curtis, Jr., a member of the Corporation. Courses 3, 5, and 9 will be bracketed for the year. Professor Talcott Parsons will present a special half-course on "New Sociological Theories...