College Conference Meeting.

Sever 11 was filled to its utmost capacity last night by men in all departments of the University who were desirous of hearing from a member of the Board of Overseers their true idea of the good which would come to the University from the recent regulations passed by the board. Mr. Roger Walcott, a member of the Board of Overseers, gave, in an informal way, the reasons which had prompted the board to take its recent action. Mr. Walcott's views were far from radical, it was plain that his audience was in sympathy with him in the stand which he took in regard to the large majority of the recent votes. He appeared to take the stand that the system of government in regard to attendance at recitations now in vogue at Harvard, although not materially lowering the average grade of scholarships, led to habits of laxity on the part of a certain class of students-a laxity which could hardly fail to result in an opposition to the true purposes of the University. The opinion of the Board of Overseers as to what is the best remedy for these evils seems to be well expressed in the regulations just passed. Their argument for the first vote appears to be that it is necessary for a student to form regular habits during his course at college, and that it is almost impossible for these regular habits to be formed unless "every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning with a moderate and fixed allowance for occasional absences."