Final Meeting of the Preliminary Conference.

The members of the preliminary conference held their final meeting yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. Professors Palmer, Shaler and James, Assistant Professor Croswell and Mr. Wendell, representing the faculty, and Noble, Halbert and Carpenter from '85, Huddleston and Merriam from '86; Lund. E. R. Thayer and Garrison from '88, were present. Professor Palmer, the chairman of the conference, submitted the report which the faculty had adopted at their meeting of April 28. The amendments which had been made to the report which had been drawn up at the previous meeting of the conference became the subject of discussion. Upon explanation by the members of the faculty there was general approval of these amendments by the undergraduate delegates. The scheme which has been approved by the faculty is as follows:

1. That a committee of conference be established with members taken partly from the college faculty and partly from the students, to act during the next academic year.

2. That the committee of the faculty consist of five members appointed by the president at the beginning of the academic year; and that the chairman of the committee be chairman of the committee of conference.

3. (a) That the student members of the committee be elected by ballots at polls kept open not less than one day; that they may be elected for one year, during the second week of the college year,-except the freshman members, who shall be elected during the second week after the Christmas recess; and that the votes of each class be counted by the president and secretary of the class.

(b) That each senior deposit a paper, bearing over his signature the names of five members of his class; each junior, in like manner, a paper with the names of four members of his class; each sophomore, in like manner, a paper with the names of three members of his class; each freshman, in like manner, a paper with the names of two members of his class.

(c) That the five members of the senior class who receive the greatest number of votes from their class, together with the four juniors, three sophomores, and two freshmen who receive the greatest number of votes from their respective classes become members of the committee; and that the faculty and student members present at the first meeting of the year elect two members at large from the college.

4. That the committee may also invite to any particular conference such other persons as are known to be especially familiar with the subjects to be discussed; but persons so invited shall not have a vote.

5. That the business of the conference be the discussion of subjects proposed either by the faculty members or the student members; but that, in the order of business, subjects for discussion brought before the committee by the faculty members as a body shall have precedence over all others.

6. That resolutions passed by a majority vote of the student members be reported to the faculty by the chairman, who shall subsequently report to the committee of conference the action taken by the faculty.

Several of the students who were present as delegates objected to the omission of stated times of meetings and a prescribed method of calling them. After considerable debate the following vote was passed unanimously by the representatives of the faculty who were serving on the committee. The time and place of meeting, and the method of calling the meeting are left by the faculty to be determined by the conference itself.

A general conversation on the nature and objects of the conference to be established showed a hope on the part of all the members of the committee from the faculty, that an opportunity would be offered by the proposed schemes for a full and free conference between the faculty and the students, on all college subjects; that students would call for the reasons for particular acts of the faculty and discuss them; and that the members of the faculty would call for opinions on current subjects from the students and receive thoughts and arguments of weight.