EDITORIAL TRIBUTE

In commenting editorially on the death of Bob Michelet, The Dartmouth declared:

" 'An athlete, a scholar, and a gentleman' would that those words had never been written until now. Would that they had been reserved solely for the boy who slept quietly under a Dartmouth seal yesterday afternoon as the College community gathered in the Chapel to pay respect to his memory.

"It was not that Bob Michelet was President of Palaeopitus, President of the Senior Class, a successful candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a football player. Rather it was the personification of those qualities which have been the ideal of mankind for countless ages truth, honor, courage, kindness, loyalty, and all the rest.

"Represented in the tapestry of a great college now a century and three quarters old are educators who have devoted their lives to the administration of this College, financial backers who have deprived themselves that the College might grow, professors who have foregone the reputation of great scholars that they might be better teachers, and men who have gone forth from Hanover to make this world a better place in which to live. But there have been few who so interwove themselves in the history of Dartmouth College as did Bob Michelet in three and a half years.

And while this College lives, Bob Michelet will live. When Baker and all its neighbors have crumbled to dust, when the men of Dartmouth are a race extinctthen shall he die."

Among other tributes paid to Bob Michelet was that of Jack Cannell, under whom he had played football for three years. "There was none to equal him," Coach Cannell stated. "He was a real thoroughbred. He was a fine-looking boy, handsome. He went out of his way to do things. He gave everything he had in his football games. One hundred per cent all the time. He wasn't spectacular but he was reliable. I'd say that Bob Michelet had done as much in his short span as most men do in an entire lifetime."