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.

This booklet provides a list of works about social surveys.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This article discusses a film titled "A Sane Fourth of July," created by Clarence Arthur Perry. According to the article, the film realistically depicts the horrors of the traditional Independence Day celebration but also shows that the holiday can be enjoyable when sanely observed.

This booklet provides a list of Russell Sage Foundation publications on the topic of athletics for schoolboys. A prefatory note explains that the material shows how athletics may become an aid to physical development and help to improve the character of boys in both school and on the street.

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 article notes that recreation in the modern city has become a matter of public concern and that the government can no longer take a laissez-faire attitude toward it. In devoting public funds to playgrounds, parks, libraries, and other areas, civic leaders are aware that they are not only providing people with something of positive value but also counteracting negative influences. The article goes on to discuss commercially organized recreations and offers a list of recreational resources in various New York City neighborhoods. It then presents separate sections on the penny arcade, dancing academies and dance halls, meeting halls, theaters, and moving-picture shows.

MICHAEL M. DAVIS, JR., worked for the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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.

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.