Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-01
INTENSE PATRIOTISM
KEYNOTE OF ALL THE
SPEECHES DELIVERED
Guest Of Honor Outlines his
Views on Study of Ger
man Language. q,
RELATION OF III" TO
STATE is DISCUSSED
Dinner Characterized as One
of Most Interesting Civ
en- in the City.

g Dr. Thomas T.. Kane. president OF
the University Of North Dakota, was
the guest Of honor at n Commercial
club. dinner last night. a dinner given
to welcome him, to the city and the
state. The gathering was N OF the
most remarkable ever given by the
club, in that it developed into a meet
ing in which men spoke frankly OF
their relations n to another. of their
problems, and of their unanimltE, and
solidarity Of thought and action in
the one big task OF the day~-~innins
the. war. And when it was ovcr, the
business men of Grand Forks a "a
clearer, more definitely defined idea
of the state university and OF their
relations to it, and of what the insti-
tuition meant to them: and DIR. Kane
and his associates had a splendid tes-
timonial of service and cooperation
on the part. of the men of the city,
representing a man-power. as the new
president said. the assures h 'devel-
opment of university and state.
DIR. kare gave a splendid address,
one that left the men with a remark
ably good impression of the man. OF
chief interest were his remarks about
the war and. the teaching of German
in public schools and state institu-
tons. He was largely cheered when
he said:
"a man who teaches German must
be 100 per cent American
In the following manne DR.. Kane
spoke of the Importance of patriotism
in the university:
II feel with absolute assurance ot
the position the university must take
that in a time like this when at the
acid test of patriotism and citizenship
= l.,- c~, -, .."r, tr
stand who is helping to train the FIJI
ture citizens of the state. We mus
all be on our guard, though, else wt
may do an injustice to the individual
But when we have so many things a
stake. when we are fighting for thu
preservation of our ideals, Caesar
wife must not only pc innocent, but j
is incumbent that she should be free
from suspicion. / trust you will no
the university. There are times Whel
MISUNDERSTANDING result if YOU judg'
hastily. 80
"Of Late. there has come up Thu
question of the study of German. II
my travels in the state. I have beel
asked about it. My view is repre-
scented. by by experience at Olivet col
lege, where the question came up las
year. maintained that it was no
H- Ell LSdpIC W "IliIttIdN Sch IIoLi iioii
the college curriculum, that we should
leave it to the students. German
was offered as usual. hut not a singh
incoming student elected freshma,
German. We left it absolutely t.
them. l am inclined to think tina
that is the attitude to take. unless tn
time comes when u position is mis-
understood. If misunderstanding
should result. l should he willing t.
agree to the suspension of German.
WE are not studying German TO
the benefit of the Germans. 1t will
be advantageous to our boys who s,
to France to understand German
You can be sure there are many Ger
mans on the line who know som
English. When peace comes we ar
either going to have commercial in
tercourse with Germany or we ar
going to be a very strong competitor
and in that time our men of affair
4. will need a knowledge of German. S.
I doubt the wisdom of dropping tn
study now. But 1 want to say. il ii
any Of the German we teach we fin
a picture Of the kaiser and his 81
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