TO CONFER ON EXTENSION WORK

The presidents of several colleges in the neighborhood of Boston, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, have issued an invitation to the other Massachusetts colleges and universities to meet at Boston University tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock to discuss plans for further advance in university extension courses, and common action in other lines of public service.

For the past five years the colleges in the vicinity of Boston have united to form the "Commission of Extension Courses," which has offered extension courses of collegiate grade at convenient centres in Boston and Cambridge by instructors drawn from the staff of the several institutions. The expenses of the commission's courses have been met by students' fees, from the fund of the Lowell Institute, and by contributions collected through the Boston Chamber of Commerce. The successful working of this experiment has suggested that co-operative organization for public service on the part of all of the colleges and similar institutions in Massachusetts might make possible an advance in university extension and aid in bringing about other desired ends. President Lowell and James Hardy Ropes '59, dean in charge of University Extension have been invited to represent the University.