This document provides a map showing which states have laws or regulations governing schoolhouse construction followed by a discussion of schoolhouse construction generally.

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 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.

This booklet argues that the federal government can promote improved education more effectively than any other body and offers a plan for the government to do so. It discusses cost estimates, the necessity of sending people into communities rather than only publishing documents, the duties of such community workers, evidence of support for the proposed measure, and a discussion of where additional information can be found in official publications.

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.

This booklet, reprinted from American Physical Education Review of April 1910, provides a history of intercollegiate athletics in the United States beginning with a Harvard-Yale boat race in 1852.

D. A. SARGENT, MD, worked at Harvard University.

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.

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 1912 through November 1913 cover topics such as training in casework, financial appeals, salaries in charity organization societies, and the training of volunteers.  

This booklet provides several tables on the status of physical education at public schools in the United States. Tables include information on how many schools (and in what regions) have a department of physical education, regular instruction in hygiene, swimming pools, gymnasiums, tennis courts, boat houses, and so on.

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

This booklet provides an argument for medical inspection of schools. It notes that the American population now lives predominantly in towns and cities rather than on farms and the school has become the center of infection in most communities. Medical inspection in schools allows authorities to detect contagious diseases and protect healthy children from those who are ill, stopping or preventing epidemics.

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

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.