RELIGIOUS TEACHING AT OXFORD.
THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTILTOR.1
Sin,—May I be allowed to point out to "Oxoniensis " what I really did say in my letter to you? He seems to be under some misapprehension on the subject. I was speaking of the public examinations of the University, and especially of the examina- tion in the "Rudiments of Faith and Religion," and I main- tained that the proper province of the University in examina- tions was to consider the sufficiency of a candidate's intellectual arnowledge, and that it was not its business, as an examining body, to take cognisance of personal religious beliefs.
I did not assert, as " Oxoniensis " seems to suppose, and I certainly do not hold, that the sole province of the University is to test intellectual proficiency. In order to be able to pack such A meaning into my words, it would be necessary to hold that the -sole province of the University of Oxford was to examine. Nobody has over held this.—I am, Sir, &c., Mahan College. A. L. MAYHEW.
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