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 which has lain fallow. I would go further and say it is a work of evolving order, not out of chaos, but certainly out of materials which have never been brought together in a scientific and ordered way. The University is ordering the work of higher education, with a rapidity, a thoroughness, and success which augurs well for the future of Wales, and of the University itself.

In a few days, the Central Board of Education for Wales will be actually formed, and will meet for practical and pressing business in the early days of next month.

Before that body lies a work of supreme importance to Wales, the work of giving a right and wise lead and setting a high ideal to their intermediate schools in Wales.

These schools are being opened in all parts of the country, and reports come from small town and large town alike, that the schools are crowded; we hear of work sketched out, and of various plans and efforts to make these schools successful. It appears to me that the great work of the Central Board will be to secure order, wise tendencies, and fruitful work in this network of intermediate schools.