UNIVERSITY GRADUATES WILL MEET HERE SATURDAY, MAY 8

Harvard men from all parts of New England are to have their Graduates' Day at the University this year and are to be given an opportunity to learn at first hand about the life and work of the University of today, when the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs meets at Cambridge on Saturday, May 8, at the invitation of the University.

An announcement is to be sent shortly to all University degree holders in New England. It will be enclosed with the list of nominations for the Board of Overseers, which is about to be issued. The officers of the New England Federation point out that the invitation of the University is extended to all Harvard men whether degree holders or not, and further, that attendance will not necessarily be limited to men from the New England states.

The subject of the meeting will be "The Life History of the Student in Harvard College at the Present Day." The morning session will be held in the Faculty Room at University Hall. President Lowell and officers and students of the College will describe in detail the social and educational life of Harvard today, and an opportunity will be afforded for making inquiries. The discussion will begin with the examinations for admission and will then cover the entrance in to College; the Freshman Halls; the physical examinations and compulsory physical exercise of Freshmen; the system of advisers; the social life of students, and their relation to College officers; the curriculum, its requirements and opportunities; the methods of guidance; and finally, the new general ex- amination for graduation. The present plan is to serve luncheon to the alumni in the dining room of one of the Freshman Halls and to have singing by the Glee Club afterwards.

Large Attendance Expected

It is expected that many men will arrange to attend both this meeting and that of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Washington a week earlier, and that others who are unable to arrange for as long a trip as that to Washington will make the shorter journey to Cambridge on May 8 in order to see the University at work.

In planning for this Graduates' Day, which this year is to be somewhat similar to the annual graduates' day at Yale, Princeton, and other universities, the University authorities and the officers of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs were inspired by the success of two meetings of the same general description which have recently been held here. One was a two-day conference held by the Board of Overseers last spring, which took the form of a full and thorough discussion of the college life of today. The other was the "Old Grads' Summer School" held last July in preparation for the Endowment Fund Campaign. Both these meetings disclosed the fact that the alumni are intensely interested in the closest study of the University of today, and it was felt that the opportunity to undertake such a study ought to be extended to the rank and file of the graduates, many of whom have not been in Cambridge for years except, perhaps to attend athletic games, and have had no chance to hear at first hand of the changes in the life of the College which have recently taken place.

President F. C. Weld '86, and Secretary A. E. Chase '04, of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs are making plans to secure a large attendance at the meeting