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 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.

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, 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.

This booklet addresses the need to reform the celebration of the Fourth of July. It includes a letter from President William Taft to Luther Halsey Gulick, the president of the Playground Association of America; a report from the Conference of Municipal Representatives of the Third Annual Playground Congress titled “A Safer, Saner Fourth of July”; and an essay by William Orr, principal of Central High School in Springfield, Massachusetts, titled “Independence Day: A Civic Opportunity.”

This one-page sheet provides a list of societies that have agreed to serve as forwarding centers for correspondence related to families in need in places without any charity organizations.

This one-page sheet provides a list of societies that have agreed to serve as forwarding centers for correspondence related to families in need in places without any charity organizations.

This one-page sheet provides a list of publications published by the foundation’s Charity Department.

This article from The North American Review, though not published by the Russell Sage Foundation, was written by RSF’s founder, Margaret Olivia Sage, and thus may be of interest to scholars. The author argues that privileged women have a duty to help others and that recent changes in women’s education have expanded their minds, thus allowing them to make greater contributions to society.

MARGARET OLIVIA SAGE founded the Russell Sage Foundation in 1907.