Isis Rebuked

Nearly two months ago (TIME, May 28), there appeared in the Oxford Isis an editorial denouncing "Buchmanism." Like all criticism of this cult, the editorial received wide publicity. Observers in the U. S. supposed that English collegians, like the majority of their U. S. fellows, had been stung to fury by an unauthorized insertion of an unpopular propaganda. Such a supposition was not encouraged by a letter which was soon published in the London Times:

DR. BUCHMAN IN OXFORD

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES

Sir,--A report has been widely circulated regarding the work of the groups in Oxford associated with the name of the Rev. F. N. D. Buchman, D.D. From what we have observed of the results of this work, it is our belief that this criticism has arisen from misunderstanding and unfounded rumour, and misrepresents the spirit of the work. The letter was printed above another communication which dealt with "The Laws of Cricket." It was signed by eleven gentlemen of whom three were officers of three of the most important colleges at Oxford: Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, Master of Balliol, Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, Master of University, and W. C. Costin, Dean of St. John's.