City councilors from around Massachusetts converged on Harvard yesterday to attend the state's first City Councilors Conference.

The two-day conference, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Politics and the Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns, is designed to teach councilors creative and professional techniques, and to express Harvard's newly increased concern for improving local government.

After their first day, most of the councilors said they were pleased with the progress and intent of the program. Lawrence Human, a councilman from Southbridge, said, "It has been very beneficial. We've gotten a lot of new ideas."

Good Response

Jonathon Moore, director of the institute, said the councilmen were actively participating in all the sessions, and were responding well to both academic and non-academic speakers.

"There has been a lot of conversation. People have not been reluctant to speak," he said. "Also, there has been a good mixture of academics and non-academics involved in the program."

Two councilors from each of the 39 cities in the Commonwealth were invited to attend the conference, and a total of 37 actually attended.

Today the councilors will participate in a panel discussin on "Personnel Management and the City Council," and listen to a presentation of "Intergovernmental Relations: Federal-Local" to be given by William Spring '59, a member of the White House domestic policy staff, before they leave tonight.