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P: That would have been constructed before you arrived on the
campus.
L: Yes, before I arrived.
P: It would have been a new building.
L: It would have been a relatively new building.
P: One of the people that I wanted to ask you about, Angus, was
William Jennings Bryan coming to the university. Did he
pay any visits there while you were a student?
L: Yes. I attended the lectures and I remember some things that
he said.
P: Were they in this auditorium also?
L: Yes. I believe the lectures were in the University Auditorium;
it was completed. He was there right shortly after it was
opened up, and he gave the lectures in that auditorium.
William Jennings Bryan was there and lectured there and shortly
after he was on the campus, he announced from Coral Gables, I
guess it was, that he was going to nominate Dr. Murphree at the
Democratic Convention in 1928. I've forgotten now who called
me in on it, it may have been old Dean [Bert Clair] Riley
[Director, General Extension Division] who was a kind of an
active person on the campus, and asked me to help arrange a
special edition of the Alligator. Well, my term had ended
as editor of the Alligator, but I did help to get out the
special edition in which it was announced that Dr. Murphree
would be nominated as President. I saw Dr. Murphree a few
times during the preparation of the article, and I had seen
him a few times before. I was a kind of a rebel in many
respects. I didn't lead the revolt against the athletic director,
but the people who led it. ran out on us and there wasn't anybody
else to take the student body petition to Dr. Murphree. The
president of the student body reversed his stand and gave a
report to the press, Gainesville Sun, that the student body
had gone off half-crocked. He didn't say he had anything
to do:with it, but he helped to draw up seventeen charges
against James L. White, the athletic director.