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Show SALT LAKE HARVARD S fil BM WILSON Former College Members Hear Professor Holmes Discuss Preparedness. OFFICERS ARE NAMED Cambridge Educator Addresses Ad-dresses Students at University Uni-versity of Utah. Expressing its hearty approval of the action of President Wilson in severing diplomatic relations with Germany and his ordering of armed vessels, forty men of the Harvard club of Salt Lake at a supper given in the University club last night adopted a resolution pledging its loyal support to the federal government in whatever action it takes to maintain the honor and dignity of the United States in the present crisis. The principal order of business was the election of officers for the ensuing year. Officers were selected as follows: Isaac Blair Evans, president; N. A. Ped-erson, Ped-erson, vice president; M. A. Keyser, secretary. As a mark of distinction to Judge ri. N. Baskin, who is the oldest member of the local club, one of the class of 1857, he was made president emeritus. The members agreed to again award the $300 scholarship for any departs meat in Harvard university. This scholarship is open to high school and university students. Harvard's Preparedness. A feature of the supper was the address ad-dress of Professor Henry W. Holmes of the department of education of Harvard who told the Harvard men what Harvard Har-vard college was doing for the cause of preparedness. He declared that more men had gone into the ambulance service ser-vice in France from Harvard than from any other university in the country. Patriotism, he said, was not the prerogative pre-rogative of Harvard men, but the general gen-eral university ideal. He pointed out that university men were obliged by reason of their privilege to render service ser-vice in time of need. If the United States should enter the war it will not be to protect American goods, especiallv munitions, nor to avenge insults, but to uphold the principle princi-ple of democracy, was the opinion expressed ex-pressed by Professor Holmes at the University Uni-versity of Utah yesterday. Calls It War of Ideals. The war is a vcar of ideals, he said, in which there are three chief points the idea! of nationalism, internationalism international-ism and the ideal of democracy. "There was never a time when ideals stood out more prominently, more sharply, sharp-ly, more nakedly than they do today, he continued. "On the battlefields of Europe ideals are staring at each other across the trenches." The speaker derided the old theory that one of the advantages of education is general mental discipline, stating that psychologically such a thing is not possible. pos-sible. Education does serve a somewhat similar purpose, however, in that it brings an 'understanding of the world, an organized view of life." |