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AWARDS—CONCLUDING SUGGESTIONS OF JURY.
Class XXX.
Thus the Great Exhibition of 1851 , -which already Istands out so prominently in the past, would bear fruitfuland lasting consequences for the future, and would ac-quire an additional claim to a grateful record in theannals of maukind.
The Greeks, our masters in the nobler arts, did nottrust to the historian and the poet alone for the record oftheir achievements, but committed to the greatest artiststhe task of immortalizing their military triumphs. TheGreat Exhibition deserves to be celebrated as the triumphof industry and invention over commercial routine andinternational jealousies. Whether the “ Crystal Palace ”shall be removed or not, posterity will look for some
mark of gratitude to the illustrious Prince to whom thepresent generation owe the realization of a giganticthought; a thought which may have floated in the mindsof others, but which received consistency and was broughtto maturity by his energy and perseverance.
The Jury of Class XXX., therefore, hope that on thesite of the Exhibition Building a statue will be erectedto Prince Albert . On its base should be recorded theshare which statesmen and others have borne in bringingsuch an undertaking to completion. The Fine Arts wouldthus be called upon to perpetuate the memory of theGreat Exhibition , to the attractions of which they haveso variously and so powerfully contributed.
A. PAXIZZI, Reporter.