This booklet provides a directory of social agencies that existed in the United States in 1941.

BERTHA F. HULSEMAN was the librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.

During 1944 the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation continued the collection of statistics of the operations of family casework organizations with the same sixty agencies that participated in the two preceding years. This booklet contains detailed comparative statistics of the work of those agencies for the calendar year 1944, derived from their reported monthly statistics. It also records service trends, shown by these and corresponding earlier data, for the nine-year period 1936 to 1944.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This article discusses a film titled "A Sane Fourth of July," created by Clarence Arthur Perry. According to the article, the film realistically depicts the horrors of the traditional Independence Day celebration but also shows that the holiday can be enjoyable when sanely observed.

This document provides a list of material available from the Russell Sage Foundation on safe ways to celebrate the Fourth of July.

This booklet is a reprint of chapter 10 of Clarence Arthur Perry’s The Wider Use of the School Plant. It recounts the formation of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City and discusses the athletic badge competition, class athletics, athletic courtesy, cooperation of school officials, folk dancing, and the girls’ branch of the league.

CLARENCE A. PERRY worked in the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet, reprinted from The Playground, provides suggestions for celebrating Independence Day. It provides a sample program of activities, a discussion of how some cities have celebrated, and a letter from the chairman of the Playgrounds Committee in St. Paul, Minnesota, to the Russell Sage Foundation describing that city’s celebration.

AUGUST H. BRUNNER worked in the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet contains a report reprinted from The American Physical Education Review of March 1910. It is based on an earlier report on the function and place of athletics in educational institutions and the validity of the principle of amateurism. The 1910 report is divided into three sections: one dealing with the function and place of athletics in life; the second dealing with the problem of amateurism, eligibility, and control; and the third dealing with laws based on the principles given.

C. W. HETHERINGTON was the chair of the Committee on Amateur Law of the Athletic Research Society.

C. A. WALDO was a member of the Committee on Amateur Law of the Athletic Research Society.

W. D. DUDLEY was a member of the Committee on Amateur Law of the Athletic Research Society.

This booklet, reprinted from The Forum, addresses the desire to find a safer way to celebrate Independence Day. It notes that Mrs. Rice, in her capacity as president of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, sent letters to governors, mayors, and other authorities, and the pamphlet reprints a selection of responses.

MRS. ISAAC L. RICE was president of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, New York City.

The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1913 through November 1914 cover topics such as the culture of family life, fundraising, large families with small wages, and vacations and office hours at charity organizations.

This booklet is reprinted from Proceedings of the Third Annual Playground Congress, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 10–14, 1909, for the Playground Association of America. It provides lists of folk dances and books on folk dancing and contains sections on dances suitable for grass playgrounds, dirt playgrounds, indoor playgrounds, small children, larger boys, larger girls, adults, various occupations, and special occasions.