29 SEPTEMBER 1950, Page 9

SIR. —In the matter of the Assumption is there not the

view of the man in the street who suggests that, if Our Lord did not bring His Mother to Heaven, there may be doubt whether He took the same way Himself ?

As an Etonian I was taught to raise my hat to the statue of the Assumption over Lupton's Tower, and I have always held it as a simple matter of faith and do not mind what theologians or Harrovians care to