The first college conference meeting of the year will be held this evening at half-past seven in Sever 11. The great success which attended these meetings two and three years ago makes the revival of them this year a matter of peculiar interest. The feature of the meetings which gives them their distinctive character is the conference which follows the address of the speaker of the evening. The meetings are open only to members the University; this together with the fact that an endeavor is always made to have the subject one of immediate student interest makes the conferences distinctively college affairs.

At the meeting tonight Mr. Edward Cummings, of the political economy department, will speak of the intensely interesting university extension work by which English university graduates are seeking to bring the advantages which they have themselves enjoyed within reach of the less fortunate masses. Mr. Cummings comes fresh from direct contact with this work and participation in it. He has studied the problem which they are endeavoring to solve in England and on the continent, and he has doubtless formed some interesting opinions on the methods which are being pursued. It is a subject in which every college man in America should be interested, and the more so from the fact that we are beginning what is a very similar work in this country.