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Why 250,000 Children Quit School

Author
Luther H. Gulick
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Publication Date
30 pages

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"The yearly army that drops out of line -- standards too high and teaching too dull." A report published by the Foundation's Department of Child Hygiene in 1910.

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

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Proceedings of the Third Annual Playground Congress

Editor
George W. Wharton
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Publication Date
576 pages

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The full program and papers presented at the thirds annual congress of the Playground Association of America, in 1910.

GEORGE W. WHARTON was officer of the Playground Association of America.

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Exercise and Rest

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
18 pages

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This 1910 paper explains the importance of rest, particularly socializing outdoor rest and recreation, as a key to exercise. Rest is the solution to bridging the gap between knowing how to be healthy to actually being healthy. Exercise and Rest also explores the effect of recreation on mental health and sanity.

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

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Independence Day Celebrations

Five Articles
Authors
Luther H. Gulick
William Orr
Inez J. Gardner
Lee F. Hanmer
Ebook
Publication Date
32 pages

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Five articles relating to safety of Independence Day celebrations:

The New and More Glorious Fourth by Luther H. Gulick

An American Holiday by William Orr

A Fourth of July Without Fireworks from Ladies' Home Journal

How One Town Spends the Fourth by Inez J. Gardner

Celebrating the Fourth in Large Cities by Lee F. Hanmer

 

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

WILLIAM ORR was principal of Central High School, Springfield, Massachusetts.

INEZ J. GARDNER, Ladies’ Home Journal

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Cover image of the book Jail as a Perverter of Womanhood  AND  Method of Dealing With Girls and Women Awaiting Court Action
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Jail as a Perverter of Womanhood AND Method of Dealing With Girls and Women Awaiting Court Action

Two Papers
Authors
Martha P. Falconer
Maude E. Miner
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Publication Date
12 pages

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Two papers on issues of women in prison and awaiting trial, presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1922.

MARTHA P. FALCONER, American Social Hygiene Association, New York

MAUDE E. MINER, secretary, New York Probation and Protective Association, New York City

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Broken Homes

A Study of Family Desertion and Its Social Treatment
Author
Joanna C. Colcord
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Publication Date
216 pages

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Broken Homes attempts to analyze the causal factors that lead husbands and fathers to desert their families. It asks why men desert their wives and children and what steps can be taken for both preventative and corrective treatment. Published in 1919, this book is a careful examination of relationships and the motives behind marriage, detailing the history of desertion laws and providing additional strategies for social workers in assisting deserted families.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was superintendent of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

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Social Work in Hospitals

A Contribution to Progressive Medecine
Author
Ida M. Cannon
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Publication Date
257 pages

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A 1913 survey of the status of hospital social work, Social Work in Hospitals is born of the evident need for exchange of experience among hospitals around the country, as well as a desire for a more conscious and consistent effort to establish standards for social work in hospitals. Topics reported include the mentally unbalanced, employment for the handicapped, single mothers, organization of social workers, and the future of hospital social service.

IDA M. CANNON was head worker of the Social Service Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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The Relation of Physical Defects to School Progress

Author
Leonard P. Ayres
Ebook
Publication Date
10 pages

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This paper, reprinted from the Eleventh Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schools, New York City, 1909, by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, attempted to examine any possible relations between physical disability and school progress in children.

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

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Practical Efforts at Character Building for Jail Prisoners

Author
J.P. Wright
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Publication Date
7 pages

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Presented at the Fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1922.

J. F. WRIGHT was Executive Secretary of the Pathfinders of America, Detroit chapter.

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This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.

Drawing from ten years of ethnographic research, Visiting Scholar Susan Silbey (MIT) is writing a book that examines the growing tensions between federal law and laboratory science. She is investigating the ways in which federal lab regulations and audits, often implemented in the name of safety, are perceived to threaten the autonomy of scientific practice within both the academy and other specialized industries.

In a new interview with the Foundation, Silbey discussed the factors that have given rise to breaches of regulatory compliance in academic and laboratory settings, including industry-specific hierarchies of labor, as well as larger cultural shifts in attitudes about workplace governance.

Q. In your research you have examined the 2009 UCLA laboratory tragedy that sparked the first criminal prosecution over an accident in an academic lab. What does this event, and others like it, reveal about the difficulties of ensuring regulatory compliance in academic lab settings?