FACTS OR FANCIES?

The opening of the Intercollegiate Conference at Technology today marks the beginning of an experiment which is the first of its kind. The scheme has found widespread favor among American universities, which have not only sent well over a hundred representatives to Cambridge, but have planned a similar convention to be held in the Middle West within a few weeks. The outcome of this first trial will, therefore, be watched with interest by colleges throughout the United States.

Conventions in general are notorious for wasting time in fruitless discussion; nothing promises more for the success of the M. I. T. Conference than the fact that it is being approached systematically. By apportioning business to various departments and by arranging a sane schedule of meetings, the executive committee has achieved what should prove an effective program. It is the avowed purpose of the delegates to discuss problems of undergraduate government and student activities; but as the committee has pointed out, such consideration "must be limited to the discussion of organizations and not traditions. "Students at large will gauge the value of the Intercollegiate Conference on the basis of concrete accomplishment.