A Bangor Normal College document., entitled "Candidates, Scholarship Exam."

During the early years, it seems that those candidates attended at the College to sit a competitive examination, their entrance depending upon their position and the result of the medical test. Later, their coming in was decided by their fortunes in the Queen's Scholarship Examination held in December each year. These pages are full of the names of schoolmasters in active service all over the country. Page 35 settles the vexed question whether the late Professor and Archdruid Dr. John Jenkins (Gwili) ever attended for examination : he did, in July 1890, and to all appearances, failed; at least, he never entered the Normal College. It settles also the fanciful theory that Dr. R.J.Campbell of New Theology fame sat at the same time as Gwili, and also failed : no such name appears in these pages, in 1890 or at any other time. The well-known script of the Rev. Daniel Rowlands, M.A., sometime Principal, can be seen on many pages (at p.77 will be found inset a typical letter of recommendation of a candidate, from the Rev. Thomas James, M.A., of Llanelly).