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Ralph Albert Parlette. The University of Hard Knocks
The University of Hard Knocks
Table of Contents
Chapter I. The Books Are Bumps
The Need of the Bumps
The Two Colleges
Chapter II
The College of Needless Knocks. The Bumps That We Bump Into
Teaching a Wilful Child
"Stop, Look, Listen"
Blind Man's Fine Sight
Are You Going Up or Down?
Bumping the Prodigals
Consider the Sticky Flypaper
"Removed" or "Knocked Out"?
Chapter III. The College of Needful Knocks. The Bumps That Bump Into Us
The Sorrows of the Piano
The Sufferings of the Red Mud
Cripple Taught by Bumps
Schools of Sympathy
The Silver Lining
Chapter IV "Shake The Barrel"
How We Decide Our Destinies
Shake to Their Places
Lectures in Cans
The Shaking Barrel of Life
Kings and Queens of Destiny
We Compel Promotion
"Good Luck" and "Bad Luck"
The "Lucky" One
The "Unlucky" One
Life's Barrel the Leveler
The Fatal Rattle!
We Must Get Ready to Get
The Menace of the Press-Notice
The Artificial Uplift
Fix the People, Not the Barrel
That Cruel Fate
Chapter V. Going Up
How We Become Great
"Getting to the Top"
The Secret of Greatness
The First Step at Hand
The Widow's Mites
Finding the Great People
A Glimpse of Gunsaulus
Give It Now
Chapter VI. The Problem of "Preparedness"
Preparing Children to Live
The Story of "Gussie"
Colleges Give Us Tools
The "Hard Knocks Graduates"
The Tragedy of Unpreparedness
Children, Learn This Early
Not Packhorse Work
"Helping" the Turkeys
Happiness in Our Work
Many Kinds of Drunkards
The Lure of the City
"Hep" and "Pep" for the Home Town
A School of Struggle
Men Needed More Than Millions
Chapter VII. The Salvation of a "Sucker"
The Fiddle and the Tuning
Reading and Knowing
"You Can't Get Something for Nothing"
I Bought the Soap
My "Fool Drawer"
Getting "Selected"
I Am Cured
Those Commencement Orations
My Maiden Sermon
You Must Live Your Song
The Success of a Song-Writer
Theory and Practice
Tuning the Strings of Life
Chapter VIII. Looking Backward
Memories of the Price We Pay
That "Last Day of School"
Calling the Class-Roll
The Boy I Had Envied
Why Ben Hur Won
Chapter IX. Go On South!
The Book in the Running Brook
Go On South and Grow Greater
The Plague of Incompetents
This Is Our Best Day
Birthdays and Headmarks
Bernhardt, Davis and Edison
Moses Begins at Eighty
The "Sob Squad"
Waiting till the "Second Table"
It's Better on South
Overcoming Obstacles Develops Power
Go on South From Principle
Reaching the Gulf
Go on South Forever!
Chapter X. Going Up Life's Mountain
The Defeats that are Victories
Go Up the Mountain
ANOTHER BEGINNING
The Big Business of Life Turning work Into Play
