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Clayton Sedgwick Cooper

1869–1936

A widely traveled early 20th-century writer, he turned firsthand journeys into lively books about education, religion, trade, and life in other countries. His work ranges from college life in America to studies of Brazil, Italy, Spain, Egypt, and the modernizing East.

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Why go to College?

Why go to College?

by Clayton Sedgwick Cooper

About the author

Clayton Sedgwick Cooper (1869–1936) was an American author whose books show an unusually broad range of interests. Library and public-domain records confirm works including The Bible and Modern Life (1911), World-wide Bible Study (1912), Why Go to College? (1912), American Ideals (1915), The Brazilians and Their Country (1919), Understanding Italy (1923), and Understanding Spain.

His writing suggests a practical, outward-looking mind. In the preface to Why Go to College?, he says he spent ten years traveling among American college men and studying educational life in hundreds of institutions, which fits the larger pattern of a writer deeply interested in how people learn, live, work, and understand the wider world.

Cooper also wrote books on international subjects such as Foreign Trade Markets and Methods, The Modernizing of the Orient, and The Man of Egypt. Taken together, his bibliography paints a picture of a curious, energetic observer who tried to interpret both America and the wider world for general readers of his time.