Montessori system for the little kids. Vocational
training for the bigger ones. Teach them to make a living. Then
organize them politically and economically. You can do what you
like, then, with England, France, and America together. Germany
will be shut out. Why study German? From a practical point of view,
I ask you, why?"
"Didn't you take it at Harvard?" sarcastically drawled Rosenlaube,
a Princeton man from Rittenhouse Square. (His grandfather was born
at Frankfort-on-the-Main, but his mother was a Biddle, and he had
penetrated about an inch into the American diplomatic service when
the war summoned him to a more serious duty.) "I understood that
all you Harvard men were strong on modern languages, especially
German."
Phipps-Herrick grunted.
"Certainly I took it. It was supposed to be a soft-snap course.
What do you think we go to Harvard for? But that little beast,
Professor von Buch, gave me a cold forty-minus on examination. So
I dropped it, and thank God I've forgotten the little I ever knew
of German! It will be absolutely useless in the new world.
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