The news in another column of today's "Herald," concerning the proposed Intercollegiate Conference to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next April, should attract enthusiastic support and attention from every American undergraduate. Our college papers and fraternity magazines have broken down the college provincialism and ignorance of undergraduate life and organization at institutions other than our own, but they are not able to carry on a systematic discussion of undergraduate problems such as the conference will be able to do. Actual meeting with the leaders in the same line of activities from other colleges and the comparison of conditions, means, and methods will give a clearer vision and a more able understanding of the problems. Harvard's Student Council voted not to send representatives to the conference, and was condemned by the CRIMSON in an editorial headed "Splendid Isolation", for not doing so. Brown has taken the right step in deciding to have men at the conference. Let us hope they will be able both to contribute and gain from the meetings. Brown Daily Herald.

If it can be done without incurring a too heavy burden of expense upon individual student pocketbooks the Student Council would be wise to accept the invitation to send representatives to the inter-collegiate conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in April. The conference is an experiment that looks good and one that very likely will prove valuable enough to be established as a permanent part of the annual academic calendar.

The men who have sponsored the idea have looked over the American college field which to say the least is rather a broad one, and out of the hundreds of colleges and universities which compose it have selected thirty-seven to participate in this conference Illinois should feel honored in being among them.

An exchange of ideas in undergraduate government and management such as can be had at a meeting of this kind, would appear to be a source of value to every participating institution. Illinois like the others represented, would contribute information on the successful methods employed here and take in return information on the successful methods employed by her various sister institutions. The best of all the rest, in the case of each individual university or college, could be incorporated into its own system of government and improvements would result all around.

Participation in undergraduate government is at any time invaluable training for college men and women. Undergraduate problems are quite as intricate as the issues in any civic community and require equally as much ability on the part of the persons who attempt to solve them. Undergraduates government is highly worth while and therefore worth being administered well. The coming conference at Boston will work to that end.   The Daily Illini