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 THE DUTY OF THE GUILD TOWARDS THE LITERATURE AND RECORDS OF WALES.

A Paper read at the Second Annual Collegiate Meeting of the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, held in the University College of North Wales, Bangor, on Saturday, October 17th, 1896.

I PROPOSE to consider the responsibilities which lie upon us as a Guild of Graduates, and what work can be done to meet those responsibilities. I take it that, already, to some extent, the Guild may be looked upon as a public body of the scholars, public men, and educational workers of Wales. Every year that passes will make this body more real, more substantial; and it seems to me that our duty is to find out and shape the policy which will make this body of the