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...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...
...three older brothers had gone respectively to West Point, Annapolis and Princeton. Bob Michelet chose vigorous, informal, outdoor Dartmouth. Even there his clean-limbed 6 ft. 1 in. and 185 Ib. caught passing eyes. Elected captain, he led the freshman football team through a hard season undefeated. In the spring he was elected president of his class, received the William S. Churchill Prize as its outstanding member...
...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...