This address, prepared under the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, details the exhibition of folk and national dances given in Van Cortland Park in 1908. It examines the role of folk dances and games in the playground movement.

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

Prepared under the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, this address to the second annual Playground Congress of New York City in 1908 examines the changing role of the significance of childhood as well as sympathy for the suffering and distress of others, in particular children within the public school system.

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

This address was published to promote the Washington Playground Bill, known as House Bill No. 3, and to push for a state-wide law which would require school boards to provide adequate playgrounds for their students. It was delivered before the State Conference of Charities and Correction in Seattle on October 6, 1908.

AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS was founder of the Seattle Playgrounds Association.

Published in 1917 in the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, this article presents the legal work and legislation being made to combat usury in the state of Illinois at the time. It includes provisions for a proposed law for meeting the loan shark situation.

EARLE EDWARD EUBANK was professor of sociology, Young Men’s Christian Association College, Chicago.

Address delivered as president of the thirty-third National Conference of Charities and Correction, which met in Philadelphia in May, 1906, arguing for more research and information to further the conference’s philanthropic work.

EDWARD T. DEVINE was editor of Charities and the Commons.

Prepared by the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1909, this paper presents how public interest and funds were raised for various recreational spaces for children in Chicago at the time.

E. B. DEGROOT was director of gymnasiums and playgrounds, South Park System, Chicago.

Presents the work of the National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations, founded in 1909, which gathered information and published bulletins in an effort to drive the loan shark out of business, with the help of the Russell Sage Foundation’s Division of Remedial Loans.

MALCOLM W. DAVIS, Division of Remedial Loans, Russell Sage Foundation

Detailing the organized work in New York, Maryland, Ohio, and Massachusetts that were presented at a conference by the Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation on Prevention of Blindness in 1910, as well as national research for blindness prevention by the American Medical Association and the Russell Sage Foundation.

This pamphlet was released by the Russell Sage Foundation’s Committee of Education in 1925, detailing proper fireproof building materials and safety regulations to prevent fires in schools.

Prepared by the Child Hygiene Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1913, “Dust and Disease” tackles the prevention of infectious diseases at schools. It specifically argues for daily school disinfection.

J. T. AINSLEE WALKER was fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and fellow of the Chemical Society.