Eleven presidents and nineteen deans representing 14 colleges and universities in New England will assemble this morning in Eliot House to open the annual conference of the Association of Colleges in New England. The conference, which will meet three times today and tomorrow in the common room of the Society of Fellows, Eliot House, gathers for the purpose of comparing notes, and to hold informal discussions pertaining to matters of administration. No action will be taken.

Although the conference tries to prevent standardization in the colleges, it is expected that athletic eligibility rules, and the general policies in curriculum will be discussed. The conference will dine as a body tonight in the dining room of the Society, and will have luncheon at Leverett House tomorrow. Many of the delegates will spend the night at the various houses.

Among the presidents attending the conference are: J. R. Angell, Yale; W. W. Atwood, Clark; H. A. Garfield, Williams; E. M. Hopkins, Dartmouth; President Lowell; D. L. Marsh, Boston University; J. L. McConaughy, Wesleyan; A. D. Mead, acting president, Brown; P. D. Moody, Middlebury; R. B. Ogilby, Trinity; A. S. Pease, Amherst; and K. C. M. Sills, Bowdoin.

Deans and professors representing the colleges and universities are: J. P. Adams, Brown; G. P. Bacon, Tufts; F. W. Brown, Bowdoin; H. M. Dadourian, Trinity; A. C. Hanford, Harvard; B. A. Hazeltine, Middlebury; L. A. Howland, Wesleyan; Craven Laycock, Dartmouth; H. P. Little, Clark; T. R. Mather, Boston University; K. B. Murdock, Harvard; C. S. Potter, Amherst; T. C. Smith, Williams; Elijah Swift, Frederick Tupper, Vermont; C. H. Warren, Yale; W. M. Warren, Boston University; F. G. Wren, Tufts.

The delegates which have been invited to spend the two days at the University itself are, Professors Brown and Smith, Dean Little, guests of Adams House; Professor Dadourian, Dean Laycock, guests of Leverett House; Acting Dean Scott, Acting President Mead, guests of Kirkland House; President Moody, Dean C. H. Warren, guests of Leverett House; Dean Hazeltine, Professor Tupper, guests of Winthrop House; and President Hopkins, President Sills, guests of President Lowell.