The first meeting of the Modern Language Conference will be held this afternoon and ought to attract a large audience. The conference is a new enterprise. undertaken by the instructors in the departments of English, German, French and Romance Philology. Its object is to present to the public papers prepared by students in advanced courses in these departments. Many of these papers represent a great amount of research and original thought, and are worthy of a wider attention than mere criticism by the instructor under whose charge they are prepared. To give the whole college an opportunity to reap some benefit from such theses the conferences have been established. They ought also to serve as an additional stimulus to the students who have papers to prepare.
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A Festivus for the Rest of Us
