Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exploits began before this latter- day Benvenuto left his rural play-fields (Newark, N. J.) to cross the game-infested Campagna (the Jersey flats) and seek his fortune in gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels...
...Princeton, N. J., a score of ribald Juniors cheered the arrival of a Prom girl whose escort had chartered a buggy in her honor? imported it from still more rural districts at allegedly fabulous expense. "'THANKS for the Buggy Ride'! The Buggy, Buggy, Buggy Ride!" they caroled. "Lost all my pride! . . . Buggy-ridin'-lovin'! . . . I had a wonderful time...
...rural education division of the U. S. Bureau of Education last week mulled over a report issued by its colleague, the statistical division. It was an encouraging sort of report; said that since 1922 there had been an increase of 25.5% among women. 30.1% among men, enrolled in U. S. teacher-teaching institutions; said that there were 40,963 more teachers-in-the-making in 1923 than in 1921; that 11 new teachers' colleges had opened, making 382 in all the U. S.; said that, taking the average training period of all these institutions as two years, only...
...hereafter be discretionary with the Committee on Admission." The Committee further announces that in 1927 and after that admission without examination will be limited to schools which do not usually prepare their pupils for the College Board examinations. Such schools are specified as high schools in smaller cities, in rural districts, and, in general, at points remote from Cambridge. This means that students from the big endowed academies and the large city high schools in New England and elsewhere, will be admitted to Harvard after 1926 by examination only. Applications from other institutions, which are still qualified to enter students...
...main obstacle to an alliance between these two groups is a geographic one. The West is agricultural and rural the East is industrial and urban. But the union of capitalists and farmers in the Republican party seems at least as contrary to sectional interest as a combination of agriculturists and laborers. Furthermore the recent housing bill sponsored by Governor Smith is not far different fom that type of government control advocated by the farm bloc. In the common opposition of both the Eastern and Western progressives to the great corporate interests now in power, there is the germ...