Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marry Me. The vogue of the light comedy is assuming permanent proportions. Florence Vidor is involved in this one which tells the tale of a rural maiden engaged to one John Smith. She writes her acceptance on an egg shell which is delivered to the wrong John Smith in a distant city. The latter is interested in matrimony but more particularly in proving, through the lady, the unconscionable period which a cold storage company had kept...
...attended three years of medical school. . . . Now entrance requirements include three years of college; the medical course is five years, including one year of hospital ... an expense of $8,000 to $10,000.... It will be difficult to get graduates, even more difficult to get graduates to go to rural districts. . . . We are not now producing men to do the ordinary service of medicine for the ordinary people. . . . midwives taking the place of physicians. . . . death certificates marked 'no physician attending...
Said Dr. Vincent: "It is a fact . . . that the natural advantages which the rural districts possess are more than offset by the better health protection afforded by the city...
...have a Southern democracy, a Western democracy and an Eastern democracy. We have a rural democracy and a labor democracy. We have an agricultural democracy and an industrial democracy. We have a Protestant democracy and a Catholic democracy...
...following article was written for the current number of the Alumni Bulletin by David J. Malcolm '13, Professor of Rural Education at the Northern Normal and Industrial School, Aberdeen, South Dakota. Professor Malcolm describes the experiences of a graduate of Harvard in working his way through college...