EMINENT WELSHMEN IN MODERN TIMES AND THEIR REWARD.
[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sfs,—There are lesser prizes for men who dance to the Radical tune in Wales than those which you specify in the Spectator of April 2nd. Ninety-seven per cent. of the Head- Masterships of intermediate schools in the Principality are held by Nonconformists who owe their appointments to the sectarian partiality of the Governing Boards. The teaching
staffs of our University Colleges, too, are composed mainly of those who are not Churchmen. It is common knowledge here that it is useless for Churchmen to apply for the higher educational appointments in Wales. I know an M.A. of London (first-class honours in classics) and M.A. Oxford (first- class in Mods. and second-class in Lit. Hum.) who has also edited a Greek classic, a man of fine character and scholastic training, who to-day holds the subordinate position of second master in a small intermediate school on account of the fact, and no other, that he is not a Nonconformist, but a Church- man. Dissent in Wales is practically identical with Radicalism.
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