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A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, six volumes edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN was secretary at the New York State Employers Liability commission.
A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, six volumes edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN was secretary at the New York State Employers Liability commission.
Published in 1917 by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation, City and County Administration in Springfield presents data on the main administrative functions of the local governments of Springfield, Illinois, from 1914 and examines possible improvements towards the efficiency and effectiveness of the administration. This report is part of the Springfield Survey series.
D. O. DECKER was a member of the Springfield Survey Committee.
SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Reprinted from the American Physical Education Review by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, this report was read at the State Teachers’ Association of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1909. It asks the question: are inter-high-school athletic contests beneficial or destructive to the schools participating?
EARL CLINE, Principal High School, Sidney, Nebraska
Prepared for the American Sociological Society in 1956, this book considers the ways and means of more effective utilization of sociology in the treatment of mental illness. It calls for more effective practice and the advancement of basic research and theory in regards to mental illness.
JOHN A. CLAUSEN was Chief Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies National Institute of Mental Health
This 1911 pamphlet is an outline to aid those enlisted in social work as a profession, a cursory review of local conditions that look at the new topics that have informed social work in the 20th century, such as industry, child labor, city administration, and community organization.
MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the charity organization department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
A study of measuring children’s reading ability, this book, published in 1921, presents a scale for the measurement of silent reading, the Picture Supplement Scale 1, developed by the Russell Sage Foundation in order to determine which methods of teaching are most successful in literacy retention.
MARY AYRES BURGESS, Columbia University
Prepared for the American Sociological Society, as part of a series published by the Russell Sage Foundation investigating public work. This volume explores the ways in which matters lying in the realm of sociology are fundamental aspects of the educational process.
ORVILLE G. BRIM, JR. was president of the Russell Sage Foundation.
A presentation at the Fifty-First Congress of the American Prison Association in Jacksonville, Florida.
CHARLES L. CHUTE was secretary of the National Probation Association in New York
Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this report details the practice commonly known as the "Third Degree," a means of obtaining information from persons under suspicion of crime involving a high degree of pressure applied to the accused to compel them to confess or to give evidence that the persecutor desires. The prosecuting attorneys and chiefs of police in some of the largest cities in the United States answered questionnaires regarding the practice of this interrogation. The report also looks into the possible abuses that exist in this method and potential reforms.
B. OGDEN CHISOLM was International Prison Commissioner, Washington, D.C.
HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Published in 1909, this report is a result of a New York State Conference of Charities and Correction–appointed study on the essentials and cost of a normal standard of living in the cities and towns of the state, followed by a detailed analysis of the compiled data of workingmen's budgets.
ROBERT COIT CHAPIN was Horace White Professor of economics and finance in Beloit College, Wisconsin.