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 The reverent memory of the great dead is a priceless treasure, an inspiration. It enriches and harmonises our national life. I hope that, as time rolls on, we shall have not only visible and worthy memorials of the great dead of Wales in the villages and towns most characteristically associated with their life and labour, but that we shall also have them in our colleges and schools, ever to remind generations of youths of the fathers and benefactors of our nation, so that schools and colleges might become in the truest sense, the temples of our nationality. Their memory would then be printed in book, celebrated in song, graved on wood or stone or marble or ivory or painted on canvas or wall, and be enshrined in the warm and loving hearts of the youth of Wales. Students of the University Colleges of Wales! it is your duty to inform the nation of its benefactors and of its debt to them, and to organise to get the debt paid.

But, above all, by your work and life and singlemindedness and courage, emulate the example of those who, like Dr. Morgan, John Penry and Daniel Rowland, have interpreted