| [PART I] |
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| PAGE |
| [A Mother’s Desire Realized]—Ames | 1 |
| [“Magna Cum Laude”]—Aspinall | 5 |
| [Task Worth While]—Clark | 8 |
| [Making Odd Hours Pay]—Day | 12 |
| [The College Store]—Dodge | 15 |
| [Brother Helps Brother]—Draper | 19 |
| [The College Inspiration]—Dyer | 24 |
| [Overcoming Hardships]—Frazier | 29 |
| [The Dignity of Service]—Fox | 35 |
| [A Happy Misfortune]—French | 42 |
| [Finding One’s Place]—Gernert | 47 |
| [“The Tarheel”]—Gunter | 49 |
| [No Work Too Hard]—Halfaker | 53 |
| [Cultivating Side Lines]—Heller | 60 |
| [A Smiling Self-Reliance]—Hughes | 65 |
| [A Mother’s Influence]—Kendall | 67 |
| [Riches More of a Handicap than Poverty]—Lawrence | 75 |
| [The Will and the Way]—McCuskey | 79 |
| [Keep Good Company]—McLeod | 82 |
| [The Democracy of a College]—Moon | 83 |
| [Obeying the Call]—Morgan | 88 |
| [Determination and Steadfastness Wins]—Mosley | 91 |
| [Making Oneself Useful]—Nelson | 96 |
| [A Faith “Divinely Simple”]—Nicks | 112 |
| [One Who Knows It Can Be Done] | 115 |
| [Difficulty and Willingness Are Enemies]—Rowland | 120 |
| [Faithful in Little Things]—Saunders | 126 |
| [From Janitor to College President]—Staley | 134 |
| [Starting with Five Dollars] | 138 |
| [From Good to Better]—Swain | 142 |
| [A Task with a Moral]—Traynor | 146 |
| [From the University of Denver Bulletin] | 151 |
| [The Fraternity of Workers]—Van Ruschen | 157 |
| [How the Physical Side Helped]—Wade | 162 |
| [The Way Always Open]—Walters | 167 |
| [The Victory that Overcometh the World]—Watkins | 171 |
| [Opportunities Make us Known]—Wentzel | 177 |
| [Making Play out of Work]—Wiggins | 185 |
| [Nothing Succeeds Like Success]—Wright | 189 |
| [Work a Stimulus to Ambition] | 194 |
| [The University as a Goal] | 200 |
| [PART II] |
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| [Working to Make Himself a More Useful Man]—Bassford | 205 |
| [Many Lanes of Usefulness]—Boswell | 208 |
| [Another Example of the Willing Heart]—Daft | 212 |
| [Difficulties Prepare for Real Work]—Frye | 215 |
| [Pluck Rather than Luck]—Henry | 221 |
| [Poverty Is Not His Master]—Johnson | 225 |
| [Defeat Does Not Mean Failure]—Johnson | 228 |
| [“Start Right”]—Johnson | 230 |
| [The Real Question]—Jorgenson | 233 |
| [Willingness to Work a Great Asset]—Moore | 239 |
| [Keep on Trying]—Omahart | 242 |
| [Optimism is an Asset]—Oxley | 245 |
| [The Desire for Something Better]—Patrick | 249 |
| [Determination versus Poverty]—Porter | 252 |
| [The Real Needs of the World]—Rankin | 255 |
| [The One Who Succeeds is the One Who Tries]—Scurr | 257 |
| [The Help Yourself Club]—Sellars | 261 |
| [The How and The Why]—Shinn | 263 |
| [Making Use of Every Opportunity]—Smith | 266 |
| [Education Worth the Price]—West | 273 |
| [Work no Class Barrier]—Wright | 280 |
| [PART III] |
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| [How to Work One’s Way through College]—Brown | 283 |
| [Does a College Education Pay?] | 286 |