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Show Scholars Meet Af Utah State LOGAN, Oct. 29 More than 200 Utah scientists and scholars registered Saturday morning for the fall meeting of the Utah Academy Acad-emy of Sciences, Arts and Letters at Utah State Agricultural college. They heard an opening address Friday night by a profeasor of geography at the University of Chicago, Dr. Chauncy D. Harris, a Utah native. Discussions on a wide range of toptca were scheduled for Satur-dsy Satur-dsy morning and afternoon. Speaking on the aubject, "Isolationism "Isola-tionism In the Soviet Union." Dr. Harris termed Inability of the nations na-tions of the world to achieve effective ef-fective international cooperation as "ths tragedy of our era." He told the assembled savants of causes snd effects of the isolationism isolation-ism which he said underlie! Soviet policies Historically, Russia has been separated from other nations by barriers of alphabet, language, religion re-ligion and culture and by physical bsrriers. As a result, changes which came more or leas gradually in the western west-ern world In economics, religion snd governments! philosophy were "expensive" and "cataclysmic" In Russia, the speaker declared. Sectional meetings were set for 9 :30 a.m. and 2 :30 p.m. in the divisions divi-sions of arts and letters, spplied biological sciences, biological science, sci-ence, earth sciences, physics and chemistry and social science. ' A general meeting wss scheduled sched-uled for 11 e m. In the lounge of the Commons bldg., with Dr. George Stewart, regional forester, Ogden, as speaker, and a luncheon at 12: IS p.m. with an address by Dr. H. H. Walker, dean of the school of sericulture at U 8 A C. |