1388 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



President Stanley Hall, of well earned educational and psychological 

 fame, was that he was glad and proud to have practised, in his boy- 

 hood and adolescence, on his father's New England farm and 

 village, as many as seventy occupations, nowadays mostly taken over 

 by wellnigh as many townsfolk; and thus he had what he rightly 

 regarded his fundamental education for life, and even for thought 

 as well. The explanation of the general fact of the large indebtedness 

 of the European city to its rural immigrants is thus not far to seek: 

 nor even the still greater predominance of these in the American 

 Who's Who'? 



The rural upbringing gives more than health and vigour; for its 

 immigrant youth awaken to the stimulus of the city, with a fresh- 

 ness beyond that of town youth to which it is so habitual ; whence 

 often doubled powers. And as every society has much of coherence, 



SOCIAL STUDIES 



I — Village Study 



1. The Region and its Outlooks, 



2. Excursion, 



3. The Region and its Occupations, 



4. The Village (a) in Developments, {b) in Deteriorations, 



5. From Village to Town, 



6. Village Survey (Excursion). 



II — Town Study; and Treatment 



7. Town Survey (Excursion), 



8. Problems of the Town, 



9. Possibilities of the Town, 



10. Indian Towns and Town Planning, 



11. Great Cities of India. 



12. Home, Village, Town, and City (Excursion). 



Ill — Cities in Change; and Ideas in Conflict 



13. "Western Civilisation" as Industrial Age; its main Ideas, 



14. Critical and Revolutionary Movements, 



15. Solutions in Progress, 



16. The War as a Conflict of Ideas, 



17. Reconstruction after War (Regions, Cities, and Universities and 



Schools, etc.), 



18. Excursion and Discussion. 



IV — Social Ideals, in Evolution 



19. Exhibition of Ideas, 



20. The Contemporary Transition, 



21. Through Determinism to Freedom, 



22. The City's Evils and Burdens, 



23. Possibilities of City and Citizen, 



24. Excursion and Discussion. 



