Robert MacArthur, commonly known as the Babe, rugby
football star in The Pothunters and
The Babe and the Dragon. Like most Scotsmen, he
can play football more than a little. Captain of St Austin's
fifteen in The Manoeuvres of Charteris,
Harrison's Slight Error. A day boy, lives with his parents in
a big house about a mile from the College. Becomes a
boarder in The Babe and the Dragon, moves into Merevale's to avoid
Dacre - whom he thinks rather a rotter - and Dacre's fiancee
Florence Beezley. Has a sister at Girton who is a friend of
Miss Beezley.
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