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And again, to quote Mr. Dale: "A Master can influence 

 and win over farmers. Most committees would fail to do 

 this for reasons obvious to any one with experience.". 



The Radnor Committee was not a success. 



Finally the President called a meeting of the Governors 

 to elect a Master to fill the vacancy during the war, and 

 Mr. Bodine was unanimously chosen to carry on, and did 

 so with great success. 



Julian C. Biddle was one of the first Radnor men to give 

 his life for his country. I remember saying good-bye to him 

 at the corner of 4th and Walnut, the day before he sailed 

 for France. 



He was one of the few remaining types of the old-school 

 sportsman, and was willing to work for his sport and go to 

 a lot of trouble to have a morning's gallop. 



During cubbing, when hounds leave the kennels at five- 

 thirty or six o'clock, Julian would be there on time, alwaya 

 smiling, having motored over from Penllyn in the dark and 

 gotten up certainly not later than four o'clock. He often 

 would spend the night at the Club so as to get an hour's 

 ride with hounds and be in town for business by nine- 

 thirty. 



There are very, very few of the present generation of 

 young gentlemen who will make as much effort to have a 

 bit of sport; the great tendency of the day being to want 

 one's pleasures made easy and convenient, and to com- 

 plain if a bit of exertion has to be made to get sport of 

 any kind. 



Julian was killed the morning of i8th August, 1917, 

 while flying from Saint-Pol, France, to Dunkirk. Just what 

 caused his plane to fall into the sea appears a mystery; but 

 his body was found washed upon the sand dunes that 



