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...Herbert Henry Asquith is Britain's Scholar-Statesman. His early schooling was done in London. In 1871 he became a classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back...
...Herbert Samuel is 52 years of age. He was educated at University College School and Balliol College, Oxford. He is considered one of the most brilliant Jews in the Empire. He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1902; since that time has held seven important Government posts and was three times a Cabinet Minister. In 1919 he was appointed British Special Commissioner to Belgium. King Albert decorated him with the Order of Leopold of Belgium in recognition of his valuable services...
...first three Henry P. Davison scholarships were awarded to three Oxford men: C. V. Salmon, Harrow and Balliol; J. Bird, Clongowes and Balliol; R. W. Cecil, Eton and Christ Church. Salmon goes to Princeton; Bird, prominent athlete, to Harvard; Cecil, son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn Cecil, M.P., G.B.E., to Yale...
...Englishmen were handicapped by the loss of K. M. Lindsay, Worcester College, who was taken seriously ill yesterday afternoon. The other members of the Oxford team, Edward Marjoribanks, Christ Church, and M. C. Hollis, Balliol College, were given extra time to make up for their colleague's absence...
...members of the team are: Edward Marjoribanks, the captain, M. C. Hollis, and Kenneth Lindsay. Marjoribanks was educated at Eton, rowed four years in the Christchurch boat, and is now President of the Oxford Union Debating Society. M. C. Hollis is a student of Balliol College and Secretary-elect of the Oxford Union while Lindsay is a member of several athletic teams at Oxford as well as one of the Union's best debaters...