28 AUGUST 1993, page 24

A Crooked Business

Sir: Roderick Smart's kindly meant sub- terfuge does not serve his pupils well ('Cut- ting the old school tie', 21 August). Getting into university is a crooked enough business......

Right To Reply

Sir: A BBC bureaucrat, Mr Drummond, writing to you last week (Letters, 21 August), refers twice to the 'hysteria' of my articles. What he means is that he does not agree with......

Sir: The Oxbridge Admissions System Would Indeed Defeat...

powers of some of our greatest thinkers. Unfortunately it is the ingenuity displayed by schoolmasters such as Mr Smart that confuses the situa- tion. His clever stratagems have......

Serving God's People

Sir: Damian Thompson bases his vision of the future Church of England (`Many mort- gaged mansions', 7 August) on a number of false assumptions. 'Appeals to present generosity,'......

Letters War Of Words

Sir: Until I read Paul Johnson's piece (And another thing, 14 August) of apoplectic nonsense on Bosnia I had no idea that I was either a Greenham woman, a professor of peace......