Excerpt from The Inglenook, Vol. 14: January 2, 1912 The purpose of the Rural Association is many-sided. In the first place, they aim to give the boys a clean, social environment and to arouse an interest in living a healthy, religious life. The means to these ends are many and depend largely upon local condi tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.