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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