INTRODUCTION.  By Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., President Emeritus of Harvard University 1

I. The social emergency.  By William Trufant Foster, Ph.D., LL.D. 5

II.  Various phases of the question.  By William Trufant Foster 13

III.  Physiological aspects.  By William House, M.D., Member of the
Executive Committee, Oregon Social Hygiene Society 25

IV.  Medical phases.  By Andrew C. Smith, M.D., Member of the
Oregon State Board of Health 32

V. Economic phases.  By Arthur Evans Wood, A.B., Instructor in
Social Economics, Reed College; Member of the Vice Commission, Portland,
Oregon 45

VI.  Recreational phases.  By Lebert Howard Weir, A.B., Field
Secretary of the Playground and Recreation Association of America 70

VII.  Educational phases.  By Edward Octavius Sisson, Ph.D.,
Commissioner of Education for the State of Idaho; recently Professor of
Education, Reed College 84

VIII.  Teaching phases:  For children.  By William Greenleaf Eliot,
Jr., A.B., Minister of Church of Our Father, Portland; Member of the
Executive Committee, Oregon Social Hygiene Society 104

IX.  Teaching phases:  For boys.  By Harry H. Moore, Executive
Secretary, Oregon Social Hygiene Society 127

X. Teaching phases:  For girls.  By Bertha Stuart, A.B., M.D.,
Director of the Gymnasium for Women, University of Oregon 154

XI.  Moral and religious phases.  By Norman Frank Coleman, A.M.,
Professor of English, Reed College 168

XII.  Agencies, methods, materials, and ideals.  By William Trufant
Foster 190

LIST OF REFERENCES 203

INDEX 219

THE SOCIAL EMERGENCY

INTRODUCTION

By Charles W. Eliot

This book is a collection of essays by several authors on the various aspects of social hygiene, and on the proper means of forming an enlightened public opinion concerning the measures which society can now, at last, wisely undertake against the vices and evils which in the human race accompany bodily self-indulgence and lack of moral stamina.