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Title: Rural life and education; a study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Subjects: Sociology, Rural Rural schools -- United States
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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al,physical, and religious work of the Association. Thework in the different counties naturally varies withthe needs. In general, the organization work includesathletic meets, summer camps, recreative and com-petitive games, debates, lecture courses, educationaltours, exhibits and contests, receptions, suppers, fa-ther and son banquets, and social visitation, as wellas Bible-study, the chief purpose of it all being to bringyoung men and boys of different communities to-gether in such a way as to develop their character, in-crease their social power, and enlarge their mentalhorizon. This means not only physical exercise, buthigher ideals for the development and care of the body.It also means mental growth, stimulated by club andgroup work; evening classes; plans for enriching rurallife where it is poorest; ministering to the social hun-ger of the country boy with wholesome recreation andsocial contact; and religious work of a sensible andmanly type. The Association also cooperates with
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144 RURAL LIFE AND EDUCATION churches, Sunday schools, young-peoples societies.Granges, fraternal organizations, and schools, with aview to making the work of all such organizationsmore effective. Naturally the needs of boy life in ruraldistricts and small towns receive the chief attentionof the Association. Though naturally an ally of the church, and work-ing for the building-up of rural manhood and the morallife of rural communities, the movement itself is es-sentially a lay movement, financed by business men.Half of the members enrolled in its Bible-study classesare not church members, but one out of ten of suchstudents is won each year to a Christian life, andlargely as the result of the personal touch of strongmen. It is also non-denominational and inter-denomi-national, thus serving as an ally of all the churches,and bringing rival, competing, and jealous churchestogether for constructive work. The county secretaryis usually a college graduate, with some special train-ing for th

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