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Folk Dancing: Illustrating the Educational, Civic, and Moral Value of Folk Dancing

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Luther H. Gulick
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26 pages

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This illustrated booklet discusses the moral value of folk dancing. Part I covers folk and national dances. Part II covers the use of folk dancing in a public school system, as shown by its use by the girls’ branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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A Survey of School Social Centers

Author
Clarence A. Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
20 pages

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This booklet reports on the results of a survey on school social centers sent to 774 school superintendents. It includes charts on cities that reported having schoolhouse social or recreation centers at which there were some paid workers and that reported schools with libraries. The booklet also discusses civic aspects of recent social-center development.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

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Sources of Information on Play and Recreation

Author
Marguerita P. Williams
Ebook
Publication Date
94 pages

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This booklet contains a bibliography on recreation in response to requests the foundation received for up-to-date information on the best texts on the subject. It lists important and readily available books, pamphlets, reports, and articles dealing with various subtopics, including, for example: games and entertainment; athletics; swimming pools and public baths; dancing and rhythmic games; and dramatics, pageants, and festivals.

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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New York School Centers and Their Community Policy

Authors
Clarence A. Perry
Marguerita P. Williams
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Publication Date
78 pages

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This booklet discusses the use of schools as community centers and the centers’ policies. Topics include the New York school center system of the time, the historical antecedents of community policy, and community use and its regulation. An appendix provides a directory of official and unofficial community centers.

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

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Social Survey, 2nd edition

Authors
Paul U. Kellogg
Shelby M. Harrison
George Thomas Palmer
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Publication Date
52 pages

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This booklet is reprinted from The Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science of July 1912. It contains the follow papers: “The Spread of the Survey Idea,” by Paul U. Kellogg; “A Social Survey of a Typical American City,” by Shelby M. Harrison; and “A Sanitary and Health Survey,” by George Thomas Palmer.

PAUL U. KELLOGG was the director of the Pittsburgh Survey of 1907–1909.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was the director of the Syracuse Social Survey.

GEORGE THOMAS PALMER was a physician in Springfield, Illinois.

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