STUDENTS INVITED TO P. B. H. CONFERENCE

In an attempt to foster a closer contact between undergraduates and the Phillips Brooks House, the Cabinet of the P. B. H. is planning a Harvard conference to be held at Cedar Hill, Waltham, on Saturday and Sunday, December 8 and 9. All members of the Phillips Brooks House and a selected body of undergraduates will be present for the speeches and discussion of the meeting.

Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York City, will be the principal speaker at the conference. An effort is being made to secure John Farewell Moors '83, Harvard College Fellow, to follow Dr. Coffin on the speaker's stand.

To obtain as many divergent opinions as possible on the Phillips Brooks House and its work, invitations to attend the conference, have been sent to approximately 30 undergraduates prominent in various spheres of activity in the College. Through treatment of the subject by competent speakers and discussion with the general body of men present at the meeting, the P. B. H. Cabinet hopes to explain its aims clearly and to arrive at a fuller understanding of the student attitude toward the P. B. H.

Discuss P. B. H. Aims

The members of the conference will gather at Cedar Hill on Saturday afternoon, December 9. After a time spent in informal sport, the first meeting will be called to order by Winslow Carlton '29, president of the Phillips Brooks House and chairman of the conference, who will propose the two main questions for discussion.

These questions are, according to Carlton:

1. "Are the objects of the Phillips Brooks House Association legitimate?"

2. "If so, how best may they be attained?"

At the close of Carlton's introduction two prominent undergraduates who are not connected with the Phillips Brooks House will speak briefly, stating the typical undergraduate viewpoint toward the association, and criticising, from that viewpoint, the execution of the purposes of the P. B. H.

After dinner J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of Brooks House, will give a short resume of the work performed by the constituent committees of the Brooks House and outline some difficulties of administering the work.

Dr. Coffin Speaks

Informal discussion will be closed by Dr. Coffin, who will endeavor to analyze the relations between Brooks House and Harvard College, and suggest means of establishing more intimate contact between these two elements.

The relation borne by the religious and philanthropic work of the Phillips Brooks House to a liberal education of the individual and the mass will be treated by the speaker at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. Mr. Moors has been asked to handle this phase of the topic. If he is unable to attend the conference, another man active in the field of education will deliver this address.

Arrangements for the conference are being completed by a committee headed by Cordon Huggins '29, and including as its members Carlton. G. H. Norris '29, and R. G. West '29.