Letter to Pope on Trinity ban'

THE policy of the board of Trinity College, Dublin, is to admit every qualified Irish student who applies, and for the college to play its proper part in cooperation with other institutions, in the development of the educational services of the country.
This was stated by the board in a statement issued by Mr. G, H. H. Giltrap, secretary to the board, following the recent controversy over the attendance of Catholics at the College.
The Philosophical Society at University College, Cork, is to send a letter to Pope Paul concerning the ban on attendance of Catholics at Trinity.
The 'letter expresses the "be wilderment and, indeed, regret" of the society's 700 or so members at the recent reemphasis by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Rev. Dr. J. C. McQuaid, of the ban which forbade Catholic students attending, or Catholic parents sending their children to, Dublin University.
The letter suggests a postconciliar clarification of these rulings and expresses the society's "humblest but most emphatic disapproval of this unrealistic ruling."