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 proportion of well-designed, stately and beautiful public and private buildings in Wales: but candour compels us to admit that there is no diffusion of taste and skill among the people as there is in Music; there is not sufficient discontent with and revolt against the present barrenness and even ugliness of masses of our buildings; and there is little public guidance or training either for students or for the public. Yet no country more sorely and urgently needs such guidance and training than Wales. All over Wales Intermediate and Technical Schools are about to be built. Here in Bangor, as in Cardiff, you are looking forward to University Colleges which shall not be superannuated hotels surrounded by make-shift shanties, but noble and stately temples for the training of men and women from generation to generation. But is there deep and anxious concern that all these schools and colleges shall be well situated, well designed, honestly built and so decorated as to contribute the same sort of ennoblement to a people as the creation of a great poem, or the making of a great code or the winning