With a discussion of the general topic, "Objective and Psychological Researches Offering Possible Guidance in the Teaching of English," the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the New England Association of Teachers of English will begin this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D.

The first of the four sessions which will meet is known as the Harvard Conference and will be held under the joint sponsorship of the New England Association of Teachers of English and the Harvard Teachers Association. At this meeting the chairman will be Oscar C. Gallagher, Superintendent of Schools, of Brookline and C. S. Thomas '97 of the Graduate School of Education will introduce the subject.

To Discuss High Schools

Among the speakers at the first session will be Miss D. L. Brown 1G. Ed., and Miss M. R. Ferguson 1G. Ed, scholarship students in the Graduate School of Education, who will discuss the more recent and more significant investigations that may guide administrators in the construction of up-to-date English curricula for junior and senior high school grades.

Dr. B. R. Buckingham, Lecturer in the School of Education and member of the Editorial Staff of Ginn and Company, will discuss these recent research studies in psychology which are of special interest to the teacher of English while Miss Alice J. Macomber, Head of the English Department of the Wellesley High School will present some of the more significant findings of the Wellesley Survey, a survey of the English work of the English work of the junior and senior high schools of Wellesley now being made under the general direction of Mr. Thomas.

Gott to Give Lecture

In the concluding talk of the Harvard Conference, Professor Charles Gott '14, Head of the English Department of Tufts College and president of the association, will discuss. "An Experiment in Teacher Training for College Instruction."

At the evening dinner in the Harvard Union at which Professor R. P. Boas '17 of Mount Holyoke College will be toast-master, the speakers will be Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling of Smith College, who will talk on "Imagination In and Out of School", Professor S. F. Damon '14 of Brown University, who will discuss "Unknown American Literature", and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '12, who will discuss some phase of his grandfather's work.

Writing to be Taken Up

At tomorrow's meeting which will be held in Huntington Hall, Rogers Building, 491 Boylston Street, in Boston, at 9.15 o'clock, the High School Section, under the chairmanship of Miss Anne Marjorie Day of the Classical High School of Providence, will discuss "Writing for an Audience."

The speakers at the general meeting, at 10.30 o'clock will be Professor R. E. Rogers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, W. L. Hinchman '01 of Milton Academy and Professor R. W. Davis of Boston University.

The annual luncheon will be held at the Hotel Brunswick at 1 o'clock with Professor Gott presiding. The speakers will be Dr. A. E. Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover and Dr. K. S. M. Sills '03, President of Bowdoin College.