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 important part of the life of the University. So far from disappointment, I think we may well be gratified at the amazing progress which has been made in the educational work of Wales, progress which far exceeds the anticipations of the most sanguine. In the colleges, the University, and the new intermediate schools there is a record of work which shows that so far from having made our plans too large, or our designs too ambitious, we are already finding the buildings too small, our designs too modest, the means at our disposal insufficient, and the cry for more work, more men, more money, and more means is ascending from every county and every public educational institution in Wales. We are, as a matter of fact, each in his own way, setting Wales to work. In old statutes, and in some modern social documents we very often come across the phrase "set the unemployed to work." That is a very great problem. It is a similar problem which we are trying to solve in Wales at the present day. We are setting Welshmen to work in unearthing the treasures, in cultivating the land, so to speak,