MATHER WILL SPEAK AT MEETING OF TEACHERS

Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Aubrey Williams, Executive Director of the National Youth Administration, and Henry N. McCracken, President of Vassar College, will be among the speakers on "Youth and the Modern Curriculum" at the annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association to be held here this Saturday.

Also on the program will be Bancroft Beatley, President of Simmons College, and Eugene Randolph Smith, Headmaster of the Beaver Country Day School.

Conferences This Week

A series of public conferences by noted educators on the problems of training modern youth will also be sponsored this week by the Association in connection with its yearly gathering.

The first of these, to be held in Emerson D at 8 o'clock tonight will be a discussion of the transition period between elementary and secondary schools; it will be led by Professor Donald D. Durrell of Boston University.

Reading Difficulties Discussed

Difficulties experienced by young pupils in learning to read will be the subject of the second conference, which will take place tomorrow afternoon and evening in Emerson D under the direction of Walter F. Dearborn, Director of the Harvard Psycho-Educational Clinic.