Word: ruralization
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...Harvard as professor of sociology. In his particular field there is no more brilliant name. A distinguished author on sociological subjects, he has printed his works both in Russia and in the United States, and he is internationally recognized as an authority and scholar of sociological problems relating to rural populations. His presence in Cambridge adds another notable name to the Harvard faculty...
...Sociology at the University from which he graduated and spent some time in Czechoslovakia. He lectured at several American Universities before he went to the University of Minnesota to become a member of the Department of Sociology. For a time he has been engaged in a study of rural sociology for the United States Department of Agriculture under the direction of Dr. C. J. Galpin, economist in charge of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life...
...collaboration with Professor Carl Zimmerman he produced a study entitled "The Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology". His own publications made in this country include: "Social Mobility". "Contemporary Sociological Theories", "Leaves from a Russian Diary", and "The Sociology of Revolution...
...town, but stopped at 700 acres. When the little red schoolhouse was rebuilt along Colonial lines as suggested by him, he put on overalls, helped gather fieldstone, and swung a pick, besides paying all bills. He wanted this school to be a model of city and country advantages for rural education. When they put up a plaque with the names of the builders and what each had done, he paired his name with the village patriarch...
...their Manhattan hotel after his mother had thrown plates at news photographers (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927). The Charles A. Lindberghs were hounded along the New England coast, spied on in Maine (TIME, June 17). The John Coolidges received kinder treatment but were "covered" even in the hamlets of rural Vermont...