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The Emerging Rural Communities Of Brookings County, W.` F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, C. Scandrette Nov 1940

The Emerging Rural Communities Of Brookings County, W.` F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, C. Scandrette

Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)

This study was made possible by the State and Federal Work Projects Administration cooperating with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. The project is officially designated as W.P.A. Project No. 465-74-3-235. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the following persons; farm operators who replied to the original neighborhood and community questionnaire; the two farmers in each town-ship who checked the neighborhood map; church survey field workers who discovered where farm families attend church high school superintendents who supplied lists of their tuition pupils; and merchants and produce buyers who volunteered information regarding the extent of their trade territories. Full …

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The Declining Enrollment Problem In The Elementary Schools Of Kingsbury County, W. F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, C. Scandrette Oct 1940

The Declining Enrollment Problem In The Elementary Schools Of Kingsbury County, W. F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, C. Scandrette

Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)

This study was made possible by the State and Federal Work Projects Administration cooperation with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. The project is officially designated as W. P.A. Project No. 465-74-3-235. The authors gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of Mrs. Ida Alseth, Kingsbury county Superintendent of' Schools from whose office most of the data used in this study were secured. Mrs. Alseth has not only cooperated in helping us to secure the data but she has also read the final manuscripts and has many valuable suggestion. Full responsibility for statements of interpretation, however, rest with the authors, however, rather than …

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The Declining Enrollment Problem In The Elementary Schools Of Beadle County, W. F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, C. Scandrette Oct 1940

The Declining Enrollment Problem In The Elementary Schools Of Beadle County, W. F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, C. Scandrette

Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)

This study was made possible by the State and Federal Work Projects Administration cooperation with the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. The project is officially designated as W. P.A. Project No. 465-74-3-235. The authors gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of Mrs. Eva Madden, Beadle county Superintendent of Schools from whose office most of the data used in this study were secured. Full responsibility for statements of interpretation appearing in this publication rest with the authors, however, rather than with the county Superintendent of Schools.

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The Declining Enrollment Problem In The Elementary Schools Of Brookings County, W. F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, Vera Petheram, C. Scandrette Sep 1940

The Declining Enrollment Problem In The Elementary Schools Of Brookings County, W. F. Kumlien, Clifford Holm, Vera Petheram, C. Scandrette

Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)

This study has made possible by the State and Federal Works Projects Administration Cooperating with the South Dakota Agricultural experiment Station. The project is officially designated as W.P.A. Project No. 465-74-3-235. The authors gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of Miss Marie Van Maanen, Brookings County Superintendent of Schools from whose office most of the data used in this study were secured. Full responsibility for statements of interpretation appearing in this publication rest with the authors rather than with the County Superintendent of Schools. This is one of a series of pamphlets dealing with community social problems. From a community standpoint the …

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Population Migration To And From South Dakota: 1930-1940, W. F. Kumlien, Howard M. Sauer Sep 1940

Population Migration To And From South Dakota: 1930-1940, W. F. Kumlien, Howard M. Sauer

Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)

This study has made possible by the State and Federal Works Projects Administration Cooperating with the South Dakota Agricultural experiment Station. The project is officially designated as W.P.A. Project No. 465-74-3-235. The material contained in this pamphlet was prepared for and presented by request before a special Congressional Committee investigating the interstate migration of destitute citizens. A special hearing for the Middle Western States was held before the above Committee on September 16-17, 1940, in Courtroom No.2 at the state Capital, Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Population Changes In South Dakota, Vera Petheram, W. F. Kumlien Aug 1940

Population Changes In South Dakota, Vera Petheram, W. F. Kumlien

Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)

Preliminary releases from the Bureau of the Census show that all but 8 of the 69 counties in South Dakota have lost population since 1930, the total loss being 51,715 persons. The farm population suffered the greater loss. Although the farm population figures for 1940 have not been released, an estimate shows a loss of 82,631 persons from farms in South Dakota. On the other hand out of 100 towns in all parts of the state, for which preliminary figures have been released, 63 showed a gain, 36 showed a loss and one town had the same population.

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Social Adjustments Of Physically Handicapped Persons, Marie Van Maanen Jan 1933

Social Adjustments Of Physically Handicapped Persons, Marie Van Maanen

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Life is a series of adjustments to environments, and he who is most versatile in making adjustments is likely to be the first to climb the ladder to success. "Success does not consist in achieving a certain standards. It does consist in living up to the limit of one's abilities. If such is the case then it behooves each individual, no matter what his inherited mental capacity or his physical prowess, to make the most of his environment. He who has been deprived of some of his physical faculties has a greater task of adjustment to his environment than the …

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Public Charities In Brookings County, South Dakota, Anna Foulks Hubbell Jan 1932

Public Charities In Brookings County, South Dakota, Anna Foulks Hubbell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Charities may be defined as those "public and private institutions of society whose objects is the relief, without compensation and solely from the motive of human sympathy, of those suffering from poverty." In this thesis, public institutions will command the major attentions, while private agencies will be mentioned only as an important factor in the development of what might be termed our present "charity complex".

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