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...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...
...Edward Marjoribanks of the Oxford team was educated at Eton, where he became Captain of the School, was Double First at Oxford in Classics, rowed in a Christ Church boat for four years and also rowed at Henley. He has been Secretary of the Canning Club (the butt of Mr. Max Beerbohm's "Zuleika Dobson") and President of the Carlton Club, both of which are conservative political clubs. At Oxford he has been Secretary-Librarian and is now President of the Oxford Union Debating Society. He is a nephew of the Marchioness of Aberdeen who came to America...
Other promising Freshman players are Alden Briggs, F. G. Akers and J. P. Duncan, captains last year of Brookline. St. Marks, and Groton respectively. W. P. Dixon, a member of the Eton School team, and J. M. Greelay, who played number four on the Exeter team, are also expected to show up well when practice begins...
...hero himself is appropriately styled by his fellow, is the incarnation of the spirit of youth. Though preserving among hundreds of his own type an individuality at once winning and intriguing, Robin is a capital example of that type of Englishlad who left the playing fields of Eton and Harrow, the clositered seclusion of Oxford, or the placide reaches of the Cam to fling his life, a care-free sacrifice, on the altar of England's glory...
...Haines, nephew of W. Haines, the University crew coach, has just arrived here from England. He has come over to coach the Union Boat Club, but he will also coach the Freshman crew this spring. In England he was for several years coach of the Eton crews...