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 argues that the federal government can promote improved education more effectively than any other body and offers a plan for the government to do so. It discusses cost estimates, the necessity of sending people into communities rather than only publishing documents, the duties of such community workers, evidence of support for the proposed measure, and a discussion of where additional information can be found in official publications.

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 American Physical Education Review of April 1910, provides a history of intercollegiate athletics in the United States beginning with a Harvard-Yale boat race in 1852.

D. A. SARGENT, MD, worked at Harvard University.

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.