23 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 16

SIR,—The Headmaster of Liverpool College makes two points which seem

to call for an answer from me, reluctant as I am to trouble you further: (i) " Who started this unprecedented regulation ? " The Secondary Schools Examinations Council recommended it. The Minister of Education put it into force. At which point does Mr. Lunt wish us to believe that party politics came into the picture ? In the recom- mendations of an unpolitical body, or in the carrying of them out ? Incidentally, what has the age-limit to do with Socialism or Con- servatism ?

(ii) " Mr. Holland has given his case away by admitting that the age-limit operates against the able boy or girl." As my article main- tained exactly the opposite, I must with all respect invite Mr. Lunt

The Grammar School, Reigate.