FAEM MANAGERS 



but there must be a conscious reconstruc- 

 tive tendency before the country will hold 

 the well-schooled man in great numbers. 



The reconstructive movement 



This constructive tendency must arise 

 largely from the college man himself, using 

 the term college man broadly for all those 

 who have been strongly influenced by the 

 college point of view, whether actual stu- 

 dents in colleges or not. There will soon be 

 enough of these men to create public senti- 

 ment and to set new standards in country 

 living. They are beginning to be felt in 

 agricultural societies and in the gradual 

 redirection of rural institutions. It is not 

 essential to this sentiment that all these 

 men live on farms. The point is, that a 

 new ideal of country life is rising as the 

 result of facts that have been discovered 

 and the new purposes that have been set in 

 motion. What I have in mind is something 

 very different from the kind of wonder- 

 farming that is pictured in some of the 

 current book and periodical writing, and 

 which is founded chiefly on the " discover- 

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