This booklet contains a report of living conditions in Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation and published by the Century Club of Scranton. It covers the following topics: community assets, education, public health and sanitation, civic improvement, betterment agencies, recreation, taxation and public finance, work conditions and relations, and delinquency.
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 discusses a film about the use of the schoolhouse as a social center and explains how to obtain the film and make it effective.
CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.
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 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 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 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 presents the address of Shelby Harrison at the National Conference of Social Work in New Orleans in 1942. It addresses social work’s “three fronts”: activities related to World War II, the day-to-day performance of social work’s essential duties, and postwar reconstruction.
SHELBY M. HARRISON was general director of the Russell Sage Foundation and president of the National Conference of Social Work.
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.