5oo roPi'LAR LECTURES AND ADDRESSES. 



teaching. But it is impossible to carry out that 

 programme to best advantage by a college which 

 is not in itself an integral part of a university. 

 Such examinations as those of the London Uni- 

 versity arc necessarily arranged to suit thousands 

 of candidates who have learned in different schools, 

 and cannot always contain questions that would 

 be most suitable for one particular mode of 

 teaching. The kind of questions set would be of 

 a different nature if the giving of the questions 

 devolved upon those who had in hand the teaching. 

 Those who have the teaching can give an ex- 

 amination vastly more useful and one that would 

 re-act on the teaching in a way that an examina- 

 tion of a multitude of students trained at all kinds 

 of institutions, and many merely by private 

 reading, could not possibly do. Therefore, it 

 seems to be a matter of high importance indeed 

 that there should be a University of Wales ; that 

 you should consider it to be a great object to be 

 attained, sooner or later but the sooner the 

 better the establishment of the University of 

 Wales, with the University College of North 



