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 scholars and workers and public men of Wales more effective as a real and substantial part of the University of Wales. Some disappointment has been expressed by individual members of the Guild at the fact that little, if anything, has been done so far by the Guild except forming themselves into a constituency for the purpose of electing a number of representatives upon the Court of the University. But I think that not much more could reasonably have been expected of us during the first months or years of our existence. For what are the facts of the case? There is an enormous pressure on the men and women who form the Guild. Everything now, so far as educational work in Wales is concerned, is being shaped and re-shaped, and the members of the Guild are those who have to do that work and bear the heavy responsibility of moulding the educational system of Wales in all its parts and bearings. That being so, I for one am not at all surprised that little has been done so far by the Guild to carry out the hopes which were entertained of it by those who made the Guild an