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Rh young doctor became an inspiration among the waifs of the teeming city; he was one of the founders of the great Lads’ Brigades which have done much good, and fostered more, in the example that they have set for allied activities. Nor were the needs of his own bodily machine neglected; football, rowing, and the tennis court kept him in condition, and his athletics served to strengthen his appeals to the London boys whom he enrolled inthe brigades. He founded the inter-hospital rowing club at Putney and rowed in the first inter-hospital race; he played on the Varsity football team, and won the “throwing the hammer” at the sports.

A couple of terms at Queen’s College, Oxford, followed the London experience, but here the conditions Rh