Word: ruralization
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Shortly after this occasion, on July 2, 1771, George Washington, who yet remains incomparably our greatest figure, rode up through Tory Row--now Brattle street--looking, said President Quincy, like a member of the General Court from the rural districts of Massachusetts. He was enthusiastically received by the whole College, and the students gave up all their rooms to the soldiers. On the next day, over on the Common, Washington formally took command of the troops. It was upon him that the College, in 1776, conferred its first degree of L.L.D...
Prohibition, he said, cannot solve the liquor problem. State prohibition is already a policy of the past, for while it has been tried in fifteen states, it exists today in only five; and in these states the prohibitory laws are scandalously administered. Local prohibition has been successful in many rural districts, but has proved ineffectual in towns and cities. Prohibition has failed, because it does not represent public sentiment...
...influence upon rural communities of a bank note currency based upon general commercial assets, as distinguished from a system based on deposit of bonds...
...Rural Club has recently been organized at the Bussey Institution with the following officers: President, Oglesby Paul 2B.; vice-president, F. H. Wesson 1B.; secretary and treasurer, J. H. Robinette...
George Sand was a born novelist. From her earliest years, it may be said that she lived by imagination, absorbed in a life of imaginary creation which put the things of real life outside of her ken. This was a result of her rural bringing up in Berry, which she loved so dearly...