A conference of English teachers today at 4 o'clock in Radcliffe Theatre will mark the beginning of an annual series of conferences on educational problems held under the direction of the Graduate School of Education as an introduction to the annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association on Saturday, March 29.

The Teachers' Association meeting, which will be open to the public, will be devoted to a discussion of "Intelligence: Its Nature and Its Measurement." At the morning session in Radcliffe Theatre at 10 o'clock, Frank N. Freeman, professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Chicago, will speak on "The Effect of Environment on Intelligence." W. F. Dearborn, professor of Education, will discuss "The Nature of Special Abilities and Disabilities", while Leonard Carmichael, professor of Psychology in Brown University, will speak on "Variants and Constants." Following the meeting a luncheon will take place at 1 o'clock in the Commander Hotel, in Cambridge.

"Going to College" Among Subjects

The preliminary conferences will number nine in all. There will be; a conference with teachers of English this afternoon and evening; a conference on secondary education on Wednesday; a conference on problems of second-year French on Thursday; a conference on personnel work in Harvard College and Radcliffe College at the same time: and a conference on Thursday night on "Going to College." On Friday night in Lawrence Hall representatives of school committees will meet to discuss commercial education and social studies, while at the same time a conference of science teachers is taking place in Jefferson Physical Laboratory.