Modern Language Conference.

The Modern Language Conference of Harvard University will hold its first meeting of the year this evening at 8 p. m., in Sever 5. The conference was organized primarily to enable graduate students of the Modern Language Division to make known to one another the results of investigations in which they may be engaged. Papers are also read by the instructors of the division; and from time to time reviews are given of important new books and of articles in the periodicals. Membership in the conference is open to all graduate students of modern languages.

At the meeting this evening Mr. A. H. Thorndike will read a paper on "Beaumont and Fletcher's Influence on Shakespere," and Mr. W. A. Neilson will give a report upon Skeat's "Chaucerian Pieces."