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Title: Country life and the country school: a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Carney, Mabel, 1885-
Subjects: Schools Rural schools Country life
Publisher: Chicago, Row, Peterson and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ny organizations, and somuch enthusiasm as the Country Life Movement, there is dan-ger of waste from the overlapping and duplication of effort.To prevent this a united agreement and division of laboramong the various institutions concerned is advisable. Thisunion, or working harmony, or federation of rural socialforces, as it has been called, is further to be desired becausethe rural problem in its complete form is so large and of somany phases that no one institution is capable of handling italone. The advantage of a unified attack in which all pointsof view are represented is plainly apparent. An initial step in securing this federation of country life THE COUNTRY LIFE MOVEMENT 317 forces will be a careful division among rural social institu-tions of the labor necessary for progress. This will necessi-tate a series of broad conferences and the formulation of defi-nite programs of work for the various institutions involved.The country church, the school, the family, and the voluntary
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Country Community Exhibit Displayed at the second annual Country Life Conference of the IllinoisFederation for Country Life Progress, July, 1912 farm organization, for example, must each work out a lineof action for its guidance, based on the scientific principlesof social progress and modified by the presence and rights ofother institutions. By far the most scientific work in rural federation thus fardeveloped is that inaugurated in different places through the 318 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL influence and thought of President Kenyon L. Butterfield ofMassachusetts. Of these personal endeavors of PresidentButterfields, the Rhode Island League for Rural Progresscame first. This was organized in 1906 and is still in opera-tion. It enrolls all the rural social institutions of the stateand holds annual progress conferences through which theresponsibility and work-share of each organization is deter-mined. As the climax of the federative idea in New Englandstands the New England Co

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