The captain of the school always used to be a fellow the boys could look up to.

Old Wyndham and the captain before him were something like fellows.
(Loud Parrett's cheers.) _They_ weren't afraid to look any one in the face--( cheers)--and _they_ didn't, when they got tired of one house--( cheers)--ask the doctor to move them to another.

(Terrific applause from the Parrett's and Welchers.) Why, if this boat-race affair had happened in old Wyndham's time, do you suppose he wouldn't have made it right, and found out the fellow, even if it was his own brother?
(Loud cheers, amidst which young Wyndham blushed a great deal at this unexpected piece of notoriety.) I'm not going to say any more." ("Hear, hear," from Fairbairn.) Mr Porter rose to open the debate on the other side.

He wasn't going to give in that Willoughby was going down.

It was unpatriotic.
(Cheers.) He meant to say if the school did go down it was the fellows' own fault, and not all to be blamed on one boy.