This booklet provides several tables on the status of physical education at public schools in the United States. Tables include information on how many schools (and in what regions) have a department of physical education, regular instruction in hygiene, swimming pools, gymnasiums, tennis courts, boat houses, and so on.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides an argument for medical inspection of schools. It notes that the American population now lives predominantly in towns and cities rather than on farms and the school has become the center of infection in most communities. Medical inspection in schools allows authorities to detect contagious diseases and protect healthy children from those who are ill, stopping or preventing epidemics.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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

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 1909 through November 1910 cover topics such as Christmas giving, medical education in America, the training of social workers, and tuberculosis and relief.

This booklet presents the address of General George W. Wingate to the annual meeting of the Public Schools Athletic League held on December 7, 1909, in New York City.

GEORGE W. WINGATE was president of the Public Schools Athletic League.

This booklet reprints an article from the American Physical Education Review, February 1908. It is a report of an address given before the Second Annual Convention of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, in New York City, on December 28, 1907. It argues that athletics are important for the values that they instill in those who play sports.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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 was reprinted from the Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Tuberculosis for the Russell Sage Foundation. It discusses detecting tuberculosis in the public schools and educating students about the disease.

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

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.

This booklet provides a list of works on the topic of play, as well as a list of stories for children.

GEORGE E. JOHNSON was director of the Pittsburgh Playground Association.

MAUD SUMMERS wrote books on reading pedagogy.

This booklet addresses the need to reform the celebration of the Fourth of July. It includes a letter from President William Taft to Luther Halsey Gulick, the president of the Playground Association of America; a report from the Conference of Municipal Representatives of the Third Annual Playground Congress titled “A Safer, Saner Fourth of July”; and an essay by William Orr, principal of Central High School in Springfield, Massachusetts, titled “Independence Day: A Civic Opportunity.”