MEETING OF PRESIDENTS

This year Harvard is host to the annual meeting of Presidents of prominent New England colleges. It is the purpose of this gathering to discuss informally many aspect of modern universities, and it is fit that the meeting should be at Harvard now. The whole organization of the college is in transition, but the actual physical shaping of the House Plan is present. Although only hazy ideas can be formed about particulars, the visiting presidents and professors will be able to gather a general conception of its frame. They will examine and discuss with informal freedom; and Harvard may benefit from their ideas, even as their own colleges benefit from those ideas arising from Harvard and the conference.

The informality of such a meeting is of some importance. Not only does this concurrence of the men at the heads of the colleges make for amity among the colleges but it tends to bring educational unity. Many of the college represented have close athletic and social relationship, but personal contacts of the faculties are also of unquestionable value, since they tend for educational progress.