If there is one dominant truth in this volume, it is that any plan for meeting the social emergency that would relax the control of moral and spiritual law over sex impulses is antagonistic, not only to physical health, but as well to the highest development of personality and to the progressive evolution of human society. W.T.F. REED COLLEGE, PORTLAND, OREGON, April, 1914. CONTENTS 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.