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First Steps in Organizing Playgrounds

Author
Lee F. Hanmer
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Publication Date
36 pages

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A brief statement on the various plans that had been used for playgrounds in a number of cities before 1908, for the use of committees planning public playgrounds, published under the Charities Publication Committee.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation

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Remedial Loans—A Constructive Program

Author
Arthur H. Ham
Ebook
Publication Date
9 pages

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Read at the meeting of the Academy of Political Science in 1911, this address proposes a program for patrolling small loans to combat usury, calling for competition in the form of semi-philanthropic loan agencies and cooperative associations and legislation to legalize and regulate such a program.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the Division of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Popular Recreation and Public Morality

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
10 pages

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From the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, this paper argues for the importance of play in education, with data on public recreation centers in New York City.

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

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Folk and National Dances

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
16 pages

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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.

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Children of the Century

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
8 pages

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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.

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Loan Sharks and Loan Shark Legislation in Illinois

Author
Earle Edward Eubank
Ebook
Publication Date
13 pages

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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.

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The Dominant Note of the Modern Philanthropy

Author
Edward T. Devine
Ebook
Publication Date
20 pages

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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.

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Cover image of the book Recent Playground Development in Chicago
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Recent Playground Development in Chicago

Author
E. B. DeGroot
Ebook
Publication Date
7 pages

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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.

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The Loan Shark Campaign

Author
Malcolm W. Davis
Ebook
Publication Date
4 pages

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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

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A Brief Account of Organized Work for the Prevention of Blindness

Author
Prevention of Blindness Committee
Ebook
Publication Date
50 pages

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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.

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