CLERICAL RESTRICTIONS UPON COLLEGE OFFICES.
(To THE EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOR:1 beg you will permit me to express th3 regret with which I read, in your issue of the 12th, in a paragraph touching "clerical restrictions upon College offices," a reference, in con- nection with this question, to "the idle tradition that a clergyman, as such, is a better man than a layman." A false issue, even when unintentional, is dangerous to suggest. No reasonable man among the upholders of our College constitution would ever advance BO absurd a position in defence. But we do believe that, on higher, more rational, natural, and national grounds, the pre- sence and action of the ministers of the national Church in the administration of our Colleges is of vital moment.—I am, Sir, &c., Hertford College, Oxford, May 14. JAMES RIIMSEY, M.A.
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