At the college conference this evening, the members of the university will have an excellent opportunity of hearing discussed a subject which has not been actively brought before the University for some time. The various lectures on religious subjects of which there have been so many, have nearly all been ethical in character. They have treated religion largely as it is connected with the individual as such, not to him as a member of society, worshipping with others beside himself. The conference this evening is on a subject substantially different from those of the preceeding lectures. In speaking on the Principle of Authority in Religion, Father Byrne enters a new and unsettled ground. From his position as Vicar-General of Boston he is able to speak from a very wide experience and whatever he says will have the increased interest of being the result of long years of thought and study. His ideas will, moreover, be entirely new to a great many of the men in college, and to these men especially the conference should prove very interesting.