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The University of Hard Knocks

by Ralph Parlette

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Why It Is Printed
  3. 3The University of Hard Knocks
  4. 4Some Preliminary Remarks
  5. 5Can Only Pull the Plug!
  6. 6Did You Bring a Bucket?
  7. 7What It’s All About
  8. 8To Everybody in My Audience
  9. 9Chapter I — The Books Are Bumps
  10. 10The Need of the Bumps
  11. 11The Two Colleges
  12. 12Chapter II — The College of Needless Knocks — The Bumps That We Bum…
  13. 13Teaching a Wilful Child
  14. 14“Stop, Look, Listen”
  15. 15Blind Man’s Fine Sight
  16. 16Are You Going Up or Down?
  17. 17Bumping the Prodigals
  18. 18Consider the Sticky Flypaper
  19. 19“Removed” or “Knocked Out”?
  20. 20Chapter III — The College of Needful Knocks — The Bumps That Bump I…
  21. 21The Sorrows of the Piano
  22. 22The Sufferings of the Red Mud
  23. 23Cripple Taught by Bumps
  24. 24Schools of Sympathy
  25. 25The Silver Lining
  26. 26Chapter IV — “Shake the Barrel”
  27. 27Shake to Their Places
  28. 28Lectures in Cans
  29. 29The Shaking Barrel of Life
  30. 30Kings and Queens of Destiny
  31. 31We Compel Promotion
  32. 32“Good Luck” and “Bad Luck”
  33. 33The “Lucky” One
  34. 34The “Unlucky” One
  35. 35Life’s Barrel the Leveler
  36. 36The Fatal Rattle!
  37. 37We Must Get Ready to Get
  38. 38The Menace of the Press-Notice
  39. 39The Artificial Uplift
  40. 40Fix the People, Not the Barrel
  41. 41That Cruel Fate
  42. 42Chapter V — Going Up
  43. 43“Getting to the Top”
  44. 44The Secret of Greatness
  45. 45The First Step at Hand
  46. 46The Widow’s Mites
  47. 47Finding the Great People
  48. 48A Glimpse of Gunsaulus
  49. 49Give It Now
  50. 50Chapter VI — The Problem of “Preparedness”
  51. 51The Story of “Gussie”
  52. 52Colleges Give Us Tools
  53. 53The “Hard Knocks Graduates”
  54. 54The Tragedy of Unpreparedness
  55. 55Children, Learn This Early
  56. 56Not Packhorse Work
  57. 57“Helping” the Turkeys
  58. 58Happiness in Our Work
  59. 59Many Kinds of Drunkards
  60. 60The Lure of the City
  61. 61“Hep” and “Pep” for the Home Town
  62. 62A School of Struggle
  63. 63Men Needed More Than Millions
  64. 64Chapter VII — The Salvation of a “Sucker”
  65. 65Reading and Knowing
  66. 66“You Can’t Get Something for Nothing”
  67. 67I Bought the Soap
  68. 68My “Fool Drawer”
  69. 69Getting “Selected”
  70. 70I Am Cured
  71. 71Those Commencement Orations
  72. 72My Maiden Sermon
  73. 73You Must Live Your Song
  74. 74The Success of a Song-Writer
  75. 75Theory and Practice
  76. 76Tuning the Strings of Life
  77. 77Chapter VIII — Looking Backward
  78. 78That “Last Day of School”
  79. 79Calling the Class-Roll
  80. 80The Boy I Had Envied
  81. 81Why Ben Hur Won
  82. 82Chapter IX — Go on South!
  83. 83Go on South and Grow Greater
  84. 84The Plague of Incompetents
  85. 85This Is Our Best Day
  86. 86Birthdays and Headmarks
  87. 87Bernhardt, Davis and Edison
  88. 88Moses Begins at Eighty
  89. 89The “Sob Squad”
  90. 90Waiting Till the “Second Table”
  91. 91It’s Better on South
  92. 92Overcoming Obstacles Develops Power
  93. 93Go on South From Principle
  94. 94Reaching the Gulf
  95. 95Go on South Forever!
  96. 96Chapter X — Going Up Life’s Mountain
  97. 97Go Up the Mountain
  98. 98Another Beginning — The Big Business of Life Turning Work Into Play

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