The first annual conference of the Bible Study Institute of Student Christian Association of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, held under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, will be held in Phillips Brooks House this evening and tomorrow. About twenty-five colleges, theological schools and preparatory schools are members of the Institute and about twenty will send delegates to this session.

The first meeting of the session will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. After a short devotional service, there will be an address on "The Relation of the Bible Study Department and Other Association and Community Activities," by Mr. F. H. Rindge, Jr., a member of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A.

Tomorrow there will be a session at 8.30 o'clock in the morning and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. In the morning the topic to be discussed will be "The Bible Study Committee," and in the afternoon the subject, "The Leader," will be considered.

Tomorrow evening a dinner will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union followed by two conferences in Phillips Brooks House, one for college and the other for preparatory school students. A final address will be given at a meeting to be held in Phillips Brooks House at 9.15 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to attend the various meetings of the conference.