A meeting of the executive committee of the Conference Francaise was held last evening and plans for the ensuing year were made. It is proposed materially to change the policy of the society and this change it is hoped will place the club on a higher plane then it has heretofore occupied. In the first instance, the executive committee will recommend at the first regular meeting, next Wednesday evening, that the annual French play be given before Christmas instead of late in the spring. It is expected that a repetition of 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' will be given in Boston on or about the 15th of December, and a second performance will take place in Cambridge on the following evening. The cast will be nearly the same as at the first representation of the play. The costumes will be entirely new and the ballet will be made one of the features of the productions. There is sufficient time for thorough preparation. In every respect the performance promises to be successful.

In the meantime, a series of interesting talks are being prepared by several of the professors. It is expected that early in the year four lectures - on Balzac, Daudet, de Maupassant, Zola - will be given before the conference under the direction of M. de Sumichrast and M. Brun, the new instructor in French, has generously consented to assist the society. The first regular meeting of the club will take place in No. 8 Brattle Hall, on Wednesday evening next.