Word: ruralization
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...proposed Agricultural College might bring a rural touch and a sweet domesticity heretofore lacking in the Yard. Sheep might graze before Holworthy to keep the grass down and gambol with the students between classes. Nanny goats could glean a comfortable existence from the partly used but still wholesome cigarettes in front of Sever. There could be a dairy under University Hall, restoring as best it could the ancient beer garden. And of a spring evening, when the horses had been driven into Fogg Museum, and the geese safely crowded into Appleton, one might hear the lilting songs of plowboys coming...
...started in Canada. Others spoke on such topics as the progress of medical education in the U. S. in the last 25 years, improved methods of teaching, medical education of the public, etc. At last someone asked the question : "Why are the doctors leaving the country? Where is the rural practitioner?" The discussion ambled along; listeners caught, in its labored periods, the clip-clop of slow hoofs, the rattle of a dry axle, saw, in the rutted lane of the imagination, a buggy swaying along with reins pulling slack from the hands of a threadbare, weary man who followed where...
...practical suggestion was made by Prof. William L. Bailey of Northwestern University. He proposed that field service be substituted for internship, that young doctors be permitted to serve their apprenticeships as assistants to rural physicians, as well as in city hospitals...
...children attending rural and small-town schools have not in the past been offered educational opportunities equivalent to those offered children living in cities. More money and consolidation of country schools to make better use of money are needed.−John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education...
...means, make an excursion to Torcello while you are in Venice," he continued. "Torcello is situated on a little group of islands not far away. It is like Venice as a village, a rural Venice, a Venice not built up, as Venice is today, so that you can't see the canal from the house-tops...