The Project Gutenberg E-text of The University of Hard Knocks

About this eBook

Author

Parlette, Ralph Albert, 1870-1930

Title

The University of Hard Knocks

Language

English

LoC Class

BJ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette, Religion

Subject

Character

Category

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eBook-No.

455

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/455

Release Date

March 1, 1996

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The University of Hard Knocks — by
2. 2.Ralph Parlette — The School That Completes Our Education — Why It Is Printed
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.The University of Hard Knocks — Some Preliminary Remarks — Can Only Pull the Plug! — Did You Bring a Bucket? — What It's All About — To Everybody in My Audience — The University of Hard Knocks — 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

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