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 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 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 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 booklet, reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association of September 18, 1909, contains the seventh annual compilation of deaths and injuries resulting from Fourth of July celebrations. It notes an increase in cases of tetanus, which is caused by the use of blank cartridges in fireworks, and it offers rules for the treatment of blank-cartridge and puncture wounds.

This pamphlet contains what, at the time, were confidential exchanges among various charitable societies. Topics discussed include volunteer services in connection with emergency work and information regarding salaries, office hours, and vacation periods.

MARY E. RICHMOND was chair of the Field Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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.