The main ornament of the _salon_ was a neat but not gaudy
biscuit-box. The top of it was a centre-table, illuminated by a
single, guttering candle; the interior was a "combination" wardrobe
and sideboard. Around this simple but satisfying piece of furniture
the three transient tenants of the dugout had just played a game
of dummy bridge, and now sat smoking and bickering as peacefully
as if they were in a college club-room in America. The night on
the front was what the French call _"relativement calme."_
Sporadic explosions above punctuated but did not interrupt the
debate, which eddied about the high theme of Education--with a
capital "E"--and the particular point of dispute was the study of
languages.
"Everything is going to change after the war," said Phipps-Herrick,
a big Harvard man from Bryn Mawr and a member of the Unsocial
Socialists' Club. "We are going to make a new world. Must have a
new education. Sweep away all the old stuff--languages, grammar,
literature, philosophy, history, and all that. Put in something modern
and practical.
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