Of all the books in the world the Bible still has the largest circulation. At the recent 111th annual meeting of the American
Bible Society it was announced that the circulation in 1926 was 9,917,361 copies, an increase of more than a half-million over the preceding year, making a total circulation under the auspices of this [...]

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TO MAKE STUDENTS PAY MORE
The Literary Digest for July 2, 1927
TO MAKE IT EASY to pay for a college education has been the ideal of our institutions, but the saturation point of benevolence seems to have been reached. On one side and another we are adjured to make education cost more. In our issue of [...]

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CHINESE AS A BUSINESS NECESSITY
THE NEED OF KNOWLEDGE of the Chinese language in order to do business in China is said to be overlooked by some American firms, and this fact is much regretted by an American weekly of Shanghai. Three or four years ago American business men in that city, we are told, showed [...]

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ABOLISHING COLLEGE EXAMS
A NEW TERROR may await the fearsome student instead of the bed of roses that the removal of the examination test promises. Just what the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania may propose as a substitute for the “mid-years” and “finals” that they have announced abolished will be awaited with interest by [...]

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TO EDUCATE THE NEXT GENERATION AGAINST WAR
GREAT WARS RECUR at intervals that suggest that they are started by new generations who have forgotten the evils of the conflicts fought by their fathers. The present generation seems fully determined that wars shall cease, but in a few decades new hands will be at the helm. Will [...]

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