INDEX

Contents

Activity and passivity, 179

Affiliation, 112

Agricultural colleges, 46, 162

Apperception mass, 101

Assistant county superintendent, 134

Attendance in consolidated school, 73

Automobile parties, 124

"Back to the country," 9

Best, the—the cheapest, 157

Boarding place, 62

Boy Scouts, 177

Bright side of rural life, 173

Camp-Fire Girls, 177

Character, 83

Child labor, 180

China, 107, 144

Chores, 10

Cities, population of, 19; churches of, 23; conveniences in, 20, 21; schools of, 22

Commission, Rural, 9, 164

Committee of Twelve, 162

Community activities, 115

Consolidation, 37, 60, 63, 65, 75; cost, 70; difficulties, 64; effects of, 71, 72, 73, 74; process, 63; when not needed, 64

Conventions, 163

Coöperation, 139, 140,145, 158

County superintendence, 129

Course of study, 108

Curriculum in rural schools, 100-113

Dancing, 120

Debates, 116

District system, 64

Diversification in farming, 156, 165

Dramatic performances, 118

Driver, 69

Education, 77; of teachers, 84; value of, 24

Educational centers, 23; column in press, 150

Environment, 105, 175

Examination of schools, 135

Exhibits, school, 122

Experience, teaching, 85

Extension work, 166

Farmer, the, and his home, 152; and his politics, 164

Forum, a rural, 123

Games, 121, 176

Grading, 71

Harvesting machinery, 38-41

High schools, progress in, 47

Higher education, progress in, 44

Hopkins, Mark, 34, 35, 78

Hours of labor, 170

Ideal life, 159

Imitation, 18, 100, 101

Individual work, 109

Inseparables, the three, 88, 91, 126

Interpreting core, 101

Inventiveness in rural life, 177-179

Kindness, too much, 80

Knots, untying, 70

Labor, hours of, 170

Labor-saving devices, 155

Laws, self-imposed, 150

Leadership, 62, 114, 139, 147

Lectures, 118

Leveling process, 153, 154

Library extension, 166

Literary society, 115

Literature, urbanized, 22

Machinery, caring for, 158

Married teachers, 75

Men needed in teaching, 53, 93

Mental factor, 172

Mixed farming, 165

"Mode," the, 88, 89

Model rural school, 61

Moving pictures, 120

Münsterberg, Prof. H., 92

Murphy, Francis, 141

Music, 119

Normal schools, 45

Ocean travel, 43

Organization, 26, 125

"Overflow of instruction," 111

Physical soundness, 82, 122

Plant, the educational, 34, 35, 77

Problem, rural, 24, 36, 37, 57, 131

Profession, 57, 90

Profit-sharing, 145

Progress, lines of, 38-48

Punctuality, 73

Reaping machines, 14, 38

Renaissance, rural, 160

Responsibility, 142

Retired farmers, 23

Retirement fund, 94

Roads, better, 75

Routine, 11

Rural Commission, 9, 164

Rural schools, 49; backward, 15, 47, 49; buildings, 28; course of study for, 108; good, 36, 61; interior, 31; no progress in, 50; organization, 26; ventilation of, 29

Rural teachers, 102; courses for, 59, 103

Salaries, 87, 96, 97

School board, 98

Scientific farming, 165; spirit, 107

Self-activity, 148, 149, 150

Social center, 74, 114, 137; cost of, 124, 126; as business center, 125

Spelling school,

117

Sports,

121

Standards, 54, 58, 90; to be raised, 92

Steam engine, 42

Storm, A. V., 53

Supervision, 55, 60, 74, 127, 129; city, 132; county, 129, 131; importance of, 127; nominal, 129; overdone, 128; purpose of, 132

Surroundings, effect of, on children, 30, 34

Teacher, 35, 75, 77, 79, 87, 113; chief factor, 34; leader, 62, 114, 147; courses for, 59, 83, 103

Terms, school, 55, 109

Textbook teaching, 104

Township system, 65, 66

Transportation of pupils, 67, 69

Urban trend, 19

Urbanized literature, 22

Value of education, 24

Ventilation, 29

Wages, 90, 96

Waste land, 160

Winter work, 14

Women's condition, 16

Work, value of, 10, 14, 157, 180; city, 23; farm, 12

Yearly routine, 11