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THE PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO LORD…

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THE PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO LORD ABERDARE. TO THE EDITOR. ( *• ""Between the recommendations of the ^tters oE his Honour Judge Williams, Mr Arbhur ei"i and the later contribution to the dis- cussion from Mr Geo. Thomas Clark, of Taly- fcarn, there seems to be nothing to choose except on the question as to whether we pay our tes- timony to Lord Aberdare's name and fame by a Monument or by establishing scholarships in connection with the Welsh University. The Judge appears to be careful in framing bis letter to avoid the Scylla on the one side and the Charybdis on tile other. Mr George Clark, in your contemporary, evidently inclines towards the erection of a heroic statue in bronze to be plaoed on the old Infirmary plateau, the paltry Montage of the Cardiff University College. It is for the subscribers to the memorial to deter- filine what shape and form the tribute of a grateful public shall assnme. If it is to be a monu- ment, let it, be a, monument but that raises *be question, as Mr O'Neill fairly phrased it, as to which of the competing towns should be flowed to become its honoured site. If, on the lt"flr hand, the memorial is to take the form of a Scholarship, the case seems to me to be very much limplified. The scholarships should bo University itid not merely college pnzss. Tony should lttach to the University of Wales, and not to either of the University Colleges of Wales. They siiouid proceed from such a fund as all Wales sould freely subscribe to on the large and liberal terms Ms Gwilym Williams indicated in his letter. It is withiu the recollection or some of us wilo have got to middle age that year by year as the life oi Lord Aborda-re was lengthened, he Lumoumf4 more and more an inestimably broad- fuinded rnan-a jiniversfli-t, I should like to say, P"rasb sure of not being distorted. He »VO,„ j!aV,H PlHteired' ,f question could have 'n' 'hat any substantial tribute to 1 °*y should come, as Mr Gwilym Will: ams Iinlit-mur ?au^» fr°m the numbers of both denomin1^ anC^ bubscr'hers of all creeds and How can We fonow up the idea of his Honour tion of ant* stI'l I fairly with the sugges- io ( '^■r. George Clark, whose words, from his f o if, 4i infc,mate acquaintance with the late "-berdare, command our deferential atten- nmi and respect ? Let me plunge headlong into the current of this -outroversy by asking point blank what is the a monument, or, to state the question morn WK are lnonumeute of any use whatever 1 hat do we want to commemorate—the face and or,n or the indelible recollection of a distinguished n^iTr '^atis honoured in our memory by the Public services ot the man himself ? It seems to rivM- have been shrewdly pointed out by Mr JNeill that in the event of a bronze or marble ^'Miment being decided upon, there would be a -ontention between Cardiff, Merthyr, and Abei« fare as to where the fittest; site could be Ol'ui ^-° Eot know, after Mr George fcrks special references to the services Mr enry Austin Bruce rendered to Dowlais as took Gu«sr. trustees, that Dowlais would • nave an equal right to claim tho proposed as peculiarly its own. But Mr Clark re Jf8' as ^-r O'Neill appears to be inclined, to t,,5a at? the least unsuitable site the vacant OiTrrff 'n.*ronti the University College of tear? ^'r' ^ou y°lirself' or dc> many of your to lt» that the Newport-road buildings are TJ 8 Co»sidfered as in any sense the home of the ^or time ? The University is only Rrow formed but the Cardiff College is growing apaoe—growing beyond the ina-n 'v °f the land to accommodate its increas- teinov0? stU(^ent:s- And yet in view of a Jjav that must take place sooner or later, we JVXr qjjT6 Proposal made by Mr George Clark and .form ,yei" that, if this memorial is to take the toh«?v.a ,n,onument, the Newport-road space is one ultimate alternative site. fearer! Ine rather, what a memorial is as com- brnn»< Wl monument—Mr Clark's heroic n>orut* or O Neill's more modest) bronze or of Statue of the life-like size and expression ?Satesm*n we all knew? Imprimis, I "Outure toqay that no "heroic bronze," even if tlo i„ "!d d,scclver a n3W Michael Angelo, would since to the Mr Bruce whom we knew in the earn! 1 ,8 and knew t0 honour in his h<J, • ape" More important than this point, in v 18 t!le thought that we all remember him «>s later years as a great educational reformer, « the first man in Wales to appreciate the aiue of the stepping stones between the high schools and the colleges, and between the Welsh colleges and the older seats of learning in Oxford and Cambridge. A monument, to be erected in front of the University College buildings in Newport-road, it seems to me, would have to be constructed in sections, like the steamboats that are sent out to Lakes Nyassr, or Tanganyika, so as to be easily put together or taken apart as the Univer- sity College in time to come changed its local habitation for a larger scope and a brisker atmosphere. But an Aberdare Scholarship." or two of them, one for men and the other for lrlS, would keep alive and usefully employ a that deserves to live. Ask your readers, with rtf use a Inonumen<J as compared *lwav?V a foundation, which would be o-r«,^UCi,Iyilas and alw»ys endowing with Pav the thankful tribute we all of us •—T !i. «? honoured memory of Lord Aberdare. «°v AN OLD CARDIFFIAN. wrditf, April 3rd. TO THE EDITOB. you again permit me the use of y™ r °°lumns to inform y#ur readers that Lord entered1^ lieutenant of the County, has p ? heartily into this question, and has to .to convene a county meeting in May, Uug nsider the question of erecting a county 0r the late Lord Aberdare?—I am, &c., vr< GWILYM WILLIAMS. a Manor, April 3rd, 1395.

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