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Law Training in Continental Europe: Its Principles and Public Function

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Eric F. Schweinburg
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129 pages

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This booklet discusses the principles and public function of law training in Europe. It covers Austria, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Topics include the curriculum, teaching methods, the law faculty, and apprenticeship training.

ERIC F. SCHWEINBURG worked in the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Social Survey, 2nd edition

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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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The Relation of the Social Survey to Public Health Authorities

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Franz Schneider, Jr.
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Publication Date
4 pages

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This booklet reprints an article from The Public Health Journal (Toronto, Canada) of October 1913. It discusses the relationship between social surveys and the work of public health authorities.

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

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There’s a Thousand Million Dollars Invested in Our Public Schools: When Will the Schoolhouses Be Fully Used?

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Russell Sage Foundation
Ebook
Publication Date
2 pages

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This document is a reprint by the Russell Sage Foundation of an editorial in the New York Evening Journal of January 20, 1911. It notes that public schools are unused an average of sixty-one hours out of every one hundred hours and proposes that the schools be used as centers of social life.

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A Plan to Promote Educational Progress Through the United States Bureau of Education

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Russell Sage Foundation
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8 pages

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This booklet presents a plan to promote educational progress in the United States through the Bureau of Education. Topics include trade and industrial education, school hygiene and the health of schoolchildren, problems of rural schools, and use of the school building after school hours.

 

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The Law of Amateurism: Report of the Committee on Amateur Law of the Athletic Research Society

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C. W. Hetherington
C. A. Waldo
W. D. Dudley
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17 pages

About This Book

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.

 

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Field Department Bulletin: Charities and the Commons

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Mary E. Richmond
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Publication Date
66 pages

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This pamphlet contains what, at the time, were confidential exchanges among various charitable societies. Topics discussed include volunteer services in connection with emergency work and information regarding salaries, office hours, and vacation periods.

MARY E. RICHMOND was chair of the Field Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Charity Organization Bulletins

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Russell Sage Foundation
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Publication Date
129 pages

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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 1917 through November 1918 cover topics such as charity organization in wartime, disaster relief, a Red Cross training course, household management, and a conference on educational work.

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Charity Organization Bulletins

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Russell Sage Foundation
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Publication Date
120 pages

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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 1916 through November 1917 cover topics such as fighting food shortages, industrial standards in wartime, methods of casework supervision, and the meaning and limitations of records in relief work.

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Charity Organization Bulletins

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Russell Sage Foundation
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Publication Date
155 pages

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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 1915 through November 1916 cover topics such as delinquency, law as an aid to social diagnosis, pathological lying, and transportation matters.

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