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 document provides a map showing which states have laws or regulations governing schoolhouse construction followed by a discussion of schoolhouse construction generally.

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 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 short article, published by the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation, discusses dances and other social events offered by cities throughout the United States.

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 acknowledges increasing calls for better ways to celebrate Independence Day. It argues that the old forms cannot be eliminated without putting something in their place, such as a program of games, folk dances, songs, and pageants. It offers the celebration in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a model.