THE AMERICAN BOOKS A LIBRARY OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP "The American Books" are designed as a series of authoritative manuals, discussing problems of interest in America to-day. KD 15308 HARVARD Copyright, 1915, by All rights reserved, including that of BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER was born at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, in 1869. He was educated at Adams Collegiate Institute, Brown University ('94), Union and Rochester Theological Seminaries, and has done graduate work at Harvard and Columbia (A. M. Columbia, 1907). He served as General Secretary of the TwentyThird Street Young Men's Christian Association, New York City, 1895-98; pastor of the Washington Street Baptist Church, Lynn, Mass., 1898-1902; and College Secretary for Bible Study of the International Young Men's Christian Association, 1902-1912. In his work Mr. Cooper has been brought in touch with colleges and college men throughout the United States and Canada; this led to his travelling abroad to study education and religious movements in other lands. He has made two extended trips around the world investigating educational institutions, particularly in England, North Africa, Egypt, India, Malay States, the Philip V |