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The Social Survey, 2nd edition

Authors
Paul U. Kellogg
Shelby M. Harrison
George Thomas Palmer
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Publication Date
52 pages

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This booklet is reprinted from The Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science of July 1912. It contains the follow papers: “The Spread of the Survey Idea,” by Paul U. Kellogg; “A Social Survey of a Typical American City,” by Shelby M. Harrison; and “A Sanitary and Health Survey,” by George Thomas Palmer.

PAUL U. KELLOGG was the director of the Pittsburgh Survey of 1907–1909.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was the director of the Syracuse Social Survey.

GEORGE THOMAS PALMER was a physician in Springfield, Illinois.

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Scranton in Quick Review

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No author
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Publication Date
31 pages

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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.

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Social Survey: A Bibliography

Editor
Zenas L. Potter
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Publication Date
8 pages

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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.

 

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Charlie’s Reform: A Motion Picture Drama on the Schoolhouse Social Center

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Clarence A. Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
5 pages

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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.

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The Story of a Moving Picture Film Entitled “A Sane Fourth of July”

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Russell Sage Foundation
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Publication Date
1 pages

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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.

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How the States Regulate School House Construction

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Russell Sage Foundation
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Publication Date
2 pages

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

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A “Right” Fourth

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Russell Sage Foundation
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Publication Date
3 pages

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This document provides a list of material available from the Russell Sage Foundation on safe ways to celebrate the Fourth of July.

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Organized Athletics, Games, and Folk Dancing

Author
Clarence A. Perry
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Publication Date
47 pages

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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.

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The Exploitation of Pleasure: A Study of Commercial Recreations in New York City

Author
Michael M. Davis, Jr.
Ebook
Publication Date
61 pages

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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.

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There’s a Thousand Million Dollars Invested in Our Public Schools: When Will the Schoolhouses Be Fully Used?

Author
Russell Sage Foundation
Ebook
Publication Date
2 pages

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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.

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