The Association of American Universities will hold its seventh annual meeting, at the University of California, and the Leland Stanford Junior University, from Wednesday to Saturday of this week.

Professor William James '61, who has been at the University of California on an interchange of professors since last autumn, will be the representative of the University.

On Wednesday the Executive Committee will meet in the morning, and in the afternoon the Association will hold its first session. Papers on "The Interchange of Professors in Universities" will be presented by Professor James on behalf of Harvard, and by Professor B. I. Wheeler on behalf of the University of California. On Thursday papers will be presented by Professor D. S. Jordan of the Leland Stanford Junior University, and by Professor S. Woolsey of Yale, on the question "To what extent should Professors Engaged in Research be Relieved from Instruction?" On Friday the subject for discussion will be "The Reaction of Graduate Work on the other Work of the University." At the final session, on Saturday, Professor A. f. West of Princeton will present a paper on "The Organization of the American University with Especial Reference to the Changes in the Conception of a Faculty.