DEATH AND DARTMOUTH

We say it is a soberer college because national economic forces have at last come home to Dartmouth men, and becauseeven more dramatically—death has visited their dearest friends. The effect of the passing from the life of the College of Bob Michelet and of the nine men who perished in the Theta Chi disaster was far more reaching than those not on the scene are inclined to realize. The shock and grief are fading now somewhat, but we do not think that these tragedies will soon be forgotten by most undergraduates.

Those men will live on. Bob Michelet requested "No eulogies" just before the end, and probably the others would have said much the same thing. The truth is that they need none. We shall say only that they were Dartmouth men in the sense to which we all aspire; they were young men of whom the College would have become prouder with the passing years. Of them all we knew Bob best; and if a man shall live by his works, then Bob Michelet will not die. His character shall remain a goal for all his classmates; through them the men of Dartmouth who have gone shall live on.