11 APRIL 1947, Page 16

CRITICISM AND FAITH

Sta,—So far as the "conspiracy of silence" is concerned Canon Smyth's letter is sufficiently answered by Mr. Somerville. But his attack upon the intolerance of the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University requires a word of comment. It is not fair to brand the Faculty with the liberalism which is properly ascribed to me ; and even I can protest that in no single election at which I have been present has party colour influenced the result. It would be interesting to know who are the supposed victims of our exclusiveness. Can it be that Canon Smyth is basing a general accusation upon a misreading of his own experience?

—Yours faithfully, C. E. RAVEN. The Lodge, Christ's College, Cambridge.