FORMER DARTMOUTH PROFESSOR KILLED IN THE EUROPEAN WAR

Professor Louis Klipffel, who last year held the Edward Tuck Professorship of French in the College, was killed late in August in an engagement between the German and French reserves, near the village of St. Remy, in the Vosges Mountains. A member of the French reserves at the time of the outbreak of the war, he was sent to the front immediately. He was a sous-officier, a second lieutenant in the seventh battalion of Chasseurs Alpins. He had completed his service in the regular army a few years ago, including a year's service in Morocco.

Professor Klipffel was an Alsatian by descent, but was born and educated in Paris. He received the degree of Agrégé des Lettres from L'Ecole Normale at Paris in 1912. After teaching in the Lycée at Tourcoing, he came to Dartmouth on ' the recommendation of the French Ministry of Public Instruction. His work proved most satisfactory here, and he was to have returned to his position again this fall. On the eighteenth of August, a few days before his death, he wrote from the war camp a letter to Professor Skinner, in which he said, "If I do not have my face broken, I shall return to my post immediately after the end of the war." Thus closely to the quiet life of the College has come the greatest conflict in modern history.