Word: michelet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 30 issue of TIME I ran across two items that seemed to me to have been written in rather poor taste. One was the account of a birthday party held at the grave of a little girl, and the other was the article concerning Bob Michelet of Dartmouth...
...days after he was in New Hampshire, addressing Dartmouth students in a speech dedicated to the late Robert Henry Michelet, permanent president of the senior class (TIME, April 30). There Dr. Tugwell declared...
...professors were as proud of Bob Michelet as his classmates and coaches were. History was his favorite subject but he drew down A's in philosophy, political science, sociology and economics. No aloof paragon, he liked to watch hockey games, play casino, go to the movies, bring girls up to proms and the Winter Carnival. He never missed a chance to lend a fellow athlete a hand with his studies...
Last week his classmates voted Bob Michelet their most versatile, most popular, most respected member, and the one who had done most for Dartmouth. Then they paid him their last and greatest honor, unanimously electing him permanent president of the class. That was extraordinary because Bob Michelet was dead...
Last February, as student president, Michelet arranged a memorial service for the nine Dartmouth men killed in their sleep by carbon monoxide (TIME, March 5). But while other students were filing to the chapel, he was on his way to Dick Hall's House infirmary with a heavy cold. The cold became pneumonia. Empyema developed, clogging his lungs. In two weeks students marched once more to Rollins Chapel, for two hours filed past the coffin where Bob Michelet lay beneath the Dartmouth seal...