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Relates the experience of the author in conducting an investigation of Finnish settlements in north-eastern Minnesota. Selection of various agricultural lands; Effects of environmental conditions on the lives of various individuals; Number of Finns living in the Great Lakes Region.

The article examines the recreation profession in a changing society. Today, new technologies have influenced our way of living. According to Greek concept, leisure was for the privileged minority. Technology and urbanization have combined to produce more free time for more people. The increase in leisure has outstripped its former primary functions of restoration and recreation. Man must be educated toward the respectability of leisure, so that free time can be spent without guilt. Sports and other forms of physical activities must find a more respectable role in a changing society.

The article provides information on the philosophical definition of leisure. Those who are meeting the exigencies of existence has no time for leisure. The seriously ill, infants and those managing to live on a subsistence level therefore have no leisure time. Their energies are devoted to the task of living, rest and play are only occasions for recuperation and preparation. Leisure is different from recreational time, in that the latter is a period when men are readied for work through relaxation and rest.

The article discusses the significance of "casual explanation" in social research. "Causal explanation" means explanation according to a set of laws. The laws express certain empirical regularities, which imply that whenever certain conditions or events occur certain other events occur. Causal research implies search for regularities or orders between sets of elements. Causal explanation in a more limited sense implies deriving statements about effect conditions from a set of laws and from statements about cause conditions. In some types of social research causal explanation means, explanation in terms of conditional relationships between dichotomic variants. Causal analysis in terms of conditional relations means asking questions such as what are the necessary, sufficient or necessary-and-sufficient conditions of a given property. The given property is called the conditioned property. It gives us in formation of great importance for predictions in real life situations. It may show that certain correlations now used for predictive purposes hold only under certain conditions.

Focuses on the life and works of Charles F. Brooks, geographer in Minnesota. Educational background; Career history; Contributions of Charles F. Brooks in the study of climates.

Explores microgeography in a piece of land in northern Illinois. Inclusion of microgeography and illustrations; Involvement of the interlocking of human life over the whole earth in problems of the time; Observation of establishments from a geographic point of view.

Delves into Polar Eskimos who lived in Greenland. Description of the life of Polar Eskimos; Diseases that have destroyed the lives of Eskimos; Discussion of the Eskimo villages.