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The University of Hard Knocks

By Parlette, Ralph

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Title: The University of Hard Knocks  
Author: Parlette, Ralph
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Language: English
Subject: Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Why It Is Printed. More than a million people have sat in audiences in all parts of the United States and have listened to ?The University of Hard Knocks.? It has been delivered to date more than twenty-five hundred times upon lyceum courses, at Chautauqua.

Table of Contents
Contents SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS--The lecturer the delivery wagon--The sorghum barrel--Audience must have place to put lecture--Why so many words The University of Hard Knocks I. THE BOOKS ARE BUMPS--Every bump a lesson--Why the two kinds of bumps--Description of University--Sweet are the uses of Adversity--Why children are not interested II. THE COLLEGE OF NEEDLESS KNOCKS, the bumps that we bump into--Getting the coffee-pot--Teaching a wilful child--Bumps make us stop, look, listen--Blind man learns with one bump--Going up requires effort--Prodigals must be bumped--The fly and the sticky fly-paper--Removed and knocked out

 
 



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