PLAN STUDENT CONFERENCE

Forty-one of the representative colleges of the country will send delegates to the Intercollegiate Conference on Undergraduate Government, which will be held April 15 and 16 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The conference was conceived and planned at a meeting held in New York during the Christmas recess of representatives of Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton, and M. I. T. The general aim is to provide a clearing house for the exchange of ideas, and the solution of the many questions of student government. The members of the institutions which attended the meeting are sponsors for the plan.

The colleges invited will be asked to send four delegates each, these men to be prepared on different subjects to permit the holding of separate but simultaneous meetings. A summary of the entire conference, in pamphlet form, will be distributed to all institutions interested.

Questions in Four Groups

The four groups into which undergraduate questions have been divided, the student government body, the organization of athletics, undergraduate publications, and college theatricals and musical clubs, will be under the direct supervision of the executive committee, whose members will arrange the program and act as chairmen. The discussion will be limited to the consideration of vital questions concerning organization, instead of tradition and the issues of lesser importance.

As soon as the delegates are appointed by their respective institutions, questionaires will be circulated by the executive committee containing lists of definite subject material which the college men are to collect from heads of activities concerned, in this manner to standardize the discussion at the conference.

For the present most of the executive work in connection with the plans for the conference is being carried on by a sub-committee at M. I. T. under W. R. Barker, chairman of the executive committee of the conference, who is handling all correspondence relative to the colleges in attendance.

Among the colleges which have been invited to participate are the University, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Purdue, Northwestern, Indiana, Washington and Lee, and practically all the more important colleges east of the Mississippi.