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, reprinted from The Playground, provides suggestions for celebrating Independence Day. It provides a sample program of activities, a discussion of how some cities have celebrated, and a letter from the chairman of the Playgrounds Committee in St. Paul, Minnesota, to the Russell Sage Foundation describing that city’s celebration.

AUGUST H. BRUNNER worked in the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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.

This booklet contains a report reprinted from The American Physical Education Review of March 1910. It is based on an earlier report on the function and place of athletics in educational institutions and the validity of the principle of amateurism. The 1910 report is divided into three sections: one dealing with the function and place of athletics in life; the second dealing with the problem of amateurism, eligibility, and control; and the third dealing with laws based on the principles given.

C. W. HETHERINGTON was the chair of the Committee on Amateur Law of the Athletic Research Society.

C. A. WALDO was a member of the Committee on Amateur Law of the Athletic Research Society.

W. D. DUDLEY was a member of the Committee on Amateur Law of the Athletic Research Society.

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.

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 1915 through November 1916 cover topics such as delinquency, law as an aid to social diagnosis, pathological lying, and transportation matters.

This booklet discusses the reasons for the slowing of students’ progress in schools. It includes a text reprinted from the tenth annual report of Dr. William H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools of New York City, as well as an investigation by Leonard P. Ayres, with the assistance of Luther Halsey Gulick, into this problem in fifteen schools in Manhattan.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

LUTHER HALSEY GULICK was director of physical training of the New York public schools. 

WILLIAM H. MAXWELL was superintendent of schools of New York City.

This booklet is reprinted from Proceedings of the Third Annual Playground Congress, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 10–14, 1909, for the Playground Association of America. It provides lists of folk dances and books on folk dancing and contains sections on dances suitable for grass playgrounds, dirt playgrounds, indoor playgrounds, small children, larger boys, larger girls, adults, various occupations, and special occasions.