The College Conference meetings, which have been held during the last three years with increasing interest and profit, will begin again tonight in Sever as announced in another column. To those who have already been in college a year these meetings need no recommendation. They have beyond a doubt proved their claim to student recognition and patronage. To those who are unacquainted with the purpose of the meetings, however, a word of explanation may be a kindness.

The College Conference meetings were organized for the purpose of bringing professors and students, or distinguished visitors and students together for the discussion of important topics of general college interest, and in order to facilitate this object the sessions have been conducted quite informally in that they have given an opporiunity for the free expression of student opinion.

But the meeting tonight is to be of peeutiar interest both in the speakers who are to open the discussion and in the question to be considered. Last year, it will be remembered, Professor Peabody held an informal meeting at his own home at which various schemes for student charitable work were discussed. At the meeting tonight this subject will be further considered under the leadership of Robert Treat Payne, president of the Boston Associated Charities, and C. W. Birtwell, secretary of the Children's Aid Society. It is earnestly hoped that some definite scheme for student charities may be made and accepted as soon as possible in order that active work may be begun at once. To this end the presence of every student is required at the meeting to night, as well as his hearty co-operation in whatever plan may be adopted. Here certainly is a duty incumbent upon every Harvard man who feels that he is in college for perfection of his own manhood.