This 1911 pamphlet is an outline to aid those enlisted in social work as a profession, a cursory review of local conditions that look at the new topics that have informed social work in the 20th century, such as industry, child labor, city administration, and community organization.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the charity organization department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Prepared for the American Sociological Society, as part of a series published by the Russell Sage Foundation investigating public work. This volume explores the ways in which matters lying in the realm of sociology are fundamental aspects of the educational process.

ORVILLE G. BRIM, JR. was president of the Russell Sage Foundation.

The following pages are the outcome of twenty-five years of life and experience in the mountain country of the South, taken on by John C. Campbell. From his time as a teacher in a remote section of the mountains, until the time of his death, when he was Secretary of the Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage Foundation, he was continuously engaged in the service of the Highland people.

This report, prepared by the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912, is an account of the methods of exchanges, charity indexes cataloguing relief and resources in an area, then in operation in the United States. It comprises of the author’s research around the oldest exchange conducted by the Boston Associated Charities, a list of the reasons behind the growth in interest around exchanges at the time, and an account of their administration and office details.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A volume of the West Side studies, field work conducted in the summer of 1912. A wider study of the Manhattan neighborhood under the Bureau of Social Research of New York School of Philanthropy with funds supplied by the Russell Sage Foundation.

RUTH S. TRUE, New York Survey Associates, Inc.

Published in 1911 and designed to continue a service rendered by the Bibliography of Settlements until 1905, this handbook presents an outline of the material facts about every settlement in the United States at the time, including non-residential neighborhood centers. In addition to previous research and literature, information is presented from first-hand accounts at these houses from leading representatives on the development and program of settlements.

ROBERT A. WOODS, New York Charities Publication Committee

ALBERT J. KENNEDY, New York Charities Publication Committee

Two addresses, "The Ethics of the Family" and "The Enlargement of the Family Ideal, " delivered before the Section on the Family and the Community at the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Baltimore, May 1915.

JAMES HAYDEN TUFTS was professor and head of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago.

SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS was minister of the first parish church, Cambridge.

This report, published in 1908, is made up of two articles. The first explores the problem of the decreasing population in rural areas, resulting in lowered social and health conditions and making these areas unhospitable for raising children. The second is a guide for organizing and carrying out a Field Day or Play Festival in country districts.

MYRON T. SCUDDER, principal, State Normal School, New Paltz, N.Y.

"The purpose of this investigation was to obtain an approximate idea of the status of health department work in the United States; to examine the departments' programs and their financial resources, and to examine how great or small an advantage thy were taking of their existing opportunities." This paper was read before the Colorado Springs meeting of the American Public Health Association, it was printed in the American Journal of Public Health, January 1916.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A survey of evening public lecture programs held at U.S. schools, carried out by the Foundation's Department of Child Hygiene in 1910.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation