 He read avidly about Disraeli, but was also particularly impressed by a speech by Lloyd George at the Oxford Union Society in 1913, where he had become a member and debater.Macmillan was a protégé of the then President Walter Monckton, later a Cabinet colleague; as such, he became Secretary then Junior Treasurer (elected unopposed in March 1914, then an unusual occurrence) of the Union, and would in his biographers' view "almost certainly" have been President had the war not intervened.He obtained a First in "Honours Moderations", informally known as "Mods" (consisting of Latin and Greek, the first half of the four-year Oxford "Literae Humaniores" course, informally known as "Greats"), in Hilary Term 1914.