Front matter
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* THE YOUNG FOLKS' ^ BOOK *£
IDEALS
BOOK I THE STURDY BODY I The Great Old Game of Life 15
Showing How the Spirit of Play Helps Us to be Strong
II "The Splendour* Falls" 21
Morning Hearts and Morning Faces
III Fighting Trim 27
No Slackers Wanted
IV Three Factors of Perfect Health .... 37
Sleep; Vitality; Physical Ideals
V Get into the Game 45
Out of the Bleachers and Out on the Field
VI Training Tells 49
Stories of Weaklings who became Strong
VII Breaking Training 56
How Great Games are Lost
VIII What Great Athletes Say 60
About What to Do
IX What Great Athletes Say 72
About What to Avoid
X Sportsmanlikeness 80
Stories about Fair Play
XI The Open Road 91
'The Striding Heart from Hill to Hill"
XII Wood-Smoke at Twilight 101
The Joys of Camping Out
XIII Keeping Clean in
Several Good Sorts 5
6 CONTENTS
XIV How to Grow Beautiful 120
Of Special Interest to Girls, of Course
XV The Value of Doing Things Badly . . . .133 Where it Pays to Be a Duffer
XVI Do What You are Afraid to 137
When "We're on our Five- Yard Line"
XVII The Glory of Self-Mastery 143
Be a Self-Starter
Book II The Alert Mind
XVIII The Fellowship of Spring 153
How the Mind of Youth Awakens
XIX All Alive 159
How Big is Your Map?
XX "There's No Clock in the Forest" .... 166 Enchanted Saunterers
XXI Tide-Marks 181
Move out of Podunk unto Persia
XXII Big-Brotherhood 188
How Great Men Have Encouraged the Young
XXIII How to Talk Well 193
The Game of Conversation from Kick-off to Goal
XXIV Home Study 199
Some Methods and Results
XXV The Enjoyment of Reading 204
How to be the Companion of Nobles
XXVI Books You are Bound to Enjoy 211
Some of the Best Books Described
XXVII Heather Honey 226
What Self-Education Can Do
XXVIII "I Didn't Have Any Folks" 231
Conquering Heredity
XXIX "I Didn't Have Any Chance" 236
Conquering Environment
CONTENTS 7
XXX The Conquest of Drudgery 243
Do it with Some Big Motive
XXXI A Ditch or a Breastwork ? 247
On Being a Jitney
XXXII Seeing What Underlies 253
The Secret of Liking One's Job
XXXIII Fighting a Little of the Dog at a Time . . 259
Even if You Can't See the End, Begin
XXXIV What Sand Can Do 265
How to Discourage the Devil
XXXV Work, Not Shirk . . . 270
What's What, Not Who's Who
XXXVI How Boys Are Making Good 274
XXXVII How Girls Are Making Good 284
XXXVIII Looking Ahead 292
Studying in the Line of One's Future
XXXIX The Practice That Makes Perfect .... 305 One is Never too Old to Practise
XL Making Up Your Time-table 309
Don't Get Cluttered
XLI Studying Yourself 316
How to Find Out What You are Good For
XLII Studying the Vocations 324
How to Find Out What is Good for You
XLIII Does the Higher Education Pay? .... 335 What College Can Do, and Who Should Go
XLIV The Value of Training , . 346
In Money and Satisfaction
XLV The Joy of Saving Money ....... 352
A Little Handbook of Getting Ahead
XLVI How Others Decided 367
Stories of Life-Decisions
XLVII The Final Choice of a Calling 372
A Review of the Best Considerations
CONTENTS
BOOK III GOOD FELLOWSHIP XLVIII The Torch-Bearers 381
An Unpayable Debt; Our Challenging Opportunity
XLIX "The Gang" 395
The Friendship-Making Days of Life
L The Education of Princes 400
Knights of To-day
LI A Star for Your Wagon 405
The Emulation that Lifts
LII The Cheer-Master 411
Geniuses by Proxy LIII The Happy Way of Doing Things .... 421 The Golden Keys of Courtesy
LIV Great-Heart, Guide to Pilgrims 425
Big in Little Things
LV Tilters at Windmills 430
Make Every Knock a Boost LVI "Not Fixed to Entertain Strangers" .... 435
The Noble Art of Bridge-Building LVII The Sad Adventures of Susie Damn . . . 442 Being Good Friends with One's Family
LVIII For Fathers and Sons 449
And Mothers and Daughters LIX The Part You Will Play in School .... 455
What Came to Stover at Yale LX An Efficiency Chart of Amusements . . . 462 How to Get Above Cheap Fun
LXI The Possessor of the Password 466
The Kind of Boy Girls Like
LXII The Pinnacle of Girlhood 469
The Kind of Girl Boys Like
LXIII Two Hearts That Beat as One 475
What Constitutes a Beautiful Marriage
LXIV A Good Turn Daily 482
Goodness That Makes Good
CONTENTS 9
LXV The Larger Patriotism 491
New Fields for the Patriot
LXVI World Brotherhood 497
The Greatest Crusade of the Century
Book IV The Awakened Self
LXVII Seventeen 505
The Glory of Being a Person
LXVIII Strength and Splendour 511
Failures Half-Divine
LXIX The Secrets of Cheerfulness 521
Gloom-Cures
LXX The Contented Great 530
On Heartsease LXXI The Man Who Sings at His Work .... 539 Living in High Spirits
LXXII Don't Whimper 545
Listen to the Lark, not the Rat
LXXIII Things That Spoil Well 549
Doing Work to a Finish
LXXIV Minding One's Own Business 559
"Why Doesn't Somebody Fix That?"
LXXV Your Young Brother and Your Grown-up Son 565 The Man We are Making
LXXVI The Most Important of All 571
Backgrounds for Success
ILLUSTRATIONS
" The Splendour Falls On Castle Walls,"
from a Painting by Alice Barber Stephens .... Frontispiece S
FACING
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One of the Games that Make Manhood 28 "
In Fighting Trim 32 '
" The Colonel " 50 '
" Each Individual Crouched, Touched Hands, and Swung
into His Place'' 56^
" Three Strikes and Out " 70 "
Why Dartmouth Is a Fine Winter College 92 v
Have You Smelt Wood-Smoke at Twilight? .... 102"
The First Recipe for Beauty is Health 120^
" They're on our Five- Yard Line " I38 /
Thomas A. Edison, the Man Who Never Wants to Know
the Time 166 "'
An Enchanted Saunterer : John Burroughs .... 170^
Art Appeals to Women 222^
A Boys' Club at Work on a Project under Supervision of
our Government . 282 '
Mothercraft : the New and Eternally Old Vocation . . . 290 *
Men Who Got Ready 302^
In Choosing a Vocation, Consider Whether You are a Man
Who Wants Adventure 316^
One of the New Occupations: Inside a Motion-Picture
Studio 326
Girls at Barnard College Studying to Be Landscape-Gardeners and Florists 330'
Analytical Chemistry, a Vocation that is Beckoning to Girls 336^ The Trade-School Apprentice Has a Better Chance than
the Jack-at-all-trades 348^ v
12 ILLUSTRATIONS
PACING PAGE
How to Save a Dollar 362 y
In the Service of Holy Church 388"
" For Sweet Mercy's Sake " 392 y
Girls Enjoy Dramatics 396 y
An Off Hour for Fellowship in a College Student's Room 398^ " The Man Who Has a Travelling Mind," Woodrow Wilson 408
A Young Coast-Guardsman Nursing the Boy Whom He
Saved 416'
The First Student to Register in One of the Great New
High Schools in New York City 456 /
The Fighting Part of Patriotism Has Always Been Done
by Young Men 492/
Old Glory 496"'
Where a Social Worker Finds Her Task 562^
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