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becoming a place toward which the thoughts of all 

 will go frequently and fondly during the hours of 

 care and toil. Let it be made a place the thought of 

 which will forever impart a full measure of good 

 cheer, of contentment, and of honest courage to the 

 mind of every member of the society thereabout. 

 Let it be a place so ordered and arranged that things 

 sacred and divine may reach down to the things 

 often thought of as very commonplace and mean, 

 and exalt the latter to their true and proper place. 

 Lastly, let it be earnestly desired and planned for 

 that every heart in the rural district shall be rekindled 

 with a living fire of enthusiasm in behalf of the general 

 improvement of interest in the things that are 

 high and divine, and of affection and good will toward 

 all in the community. Let some local resident rise 

 up as leader and bring this order of things to pass, and 

 the social experiences of the young people will natu- 

 rally become of such a nature as to develop them into 

 men and women of great worth and efficiency. 



REFERENCES 



Wider Use of the School Plant. Clarence Arthur Perry. Chapter IX, 

 "Social Centers." Charities Publication Committee, N.Y. 



Chapters on Rural Progress. Kenyon L. Butterfield. Chapter XIV, 

 "The Social Side of the Farm Question." University of Chicago 

 Press. 



Development and Education. M. V. O'Shea. Chapter XIV, "Prob- 

 lems of Training." Houghton, Mifflin Company. 



Social Control. Edward A. Ross, Ph.D. Chapters VII and VIII, "The 

 Need and Direction of Social Control." Macmillan. 



