Meeting of Conference Committee.

In conformance with the call issued by Professor Palmer last week, a conference of members of the faculty and students was held yesterday afternoon. The faculty was represented by Professors Palmer, Shaler, James, Ass't. Professor Croswell, and Mr. Windell. The following students were present: Carpenter, Halbert, Noble, Winslow, '85; Claflin, Huddleston, Merriam, R. D. Smith, '86; F. S. Coolidge, H. L. Clark, Herron, Peabody, '87; Fargo, Garrison, Lund, and Thayer, '88. The question of the celebration of athletic victories was fully discussed. The members of the faculty explained the trying position in which they were placed by the many just complaints from people at large in Cambridge, and especially from the sick, and also from the feeling prevalent among many graduates that these celebrations were signs of the demoralization due to the new ideas of government at Harvard. They expressed a willingness to leave the entire subject to the students, if it could be checked in that way. The students were unanimous in deprecating a resort to forcible measures by the faculty, or the abolition of inter-collegiate sports. They strongly urged an appeal to the better sentiments of the entire body of students, and the government of celebrations by organized methods on the part of the students.

S. E. Winslow was chosen chairman of the student members of the Conference, with full power to call a further meeting.