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P: It was still then the General College.
L: Yes.
P: And, certainly this was the argument that the people in the '
sciences and engineering made about the General College.
L: Well, I accepted that, though I had no association with them,
but that's what I came to believe. And I always reverted back
to my course in Genung's Rhetoric--English I. There was that
book that I thought I mastered, Genung's Rhetoric. I thought
that by the end of the year I knew Genung's Rhetoric and I
could close my eyes and see almost any page in the book. I felt
that that was a great educational process, that you have one
fine textbook that a student would learn and master and I think
that's one of the values of the college education.
P: Angus, let me ask you a little bit about your personal life now.
You got married andyou set up housekeeping where in Gainesville?
L: I set up housekeeping in an apartment that belonged to Steve and
Zella Sashau for the first summer. The next year, I was married
in June on Wednesday and on Friday I helped to register people
for summer school in 1938. Then, after that, I rented a house
that belonged to BoBo Arnold's father.
P: Where was the Sashau apartment?
L: The Sashau apartment was off behind what is now the Holiday Inn,
that big motel there on the corner.
P: I know it. How much rent did you pay?
L: Practically nothing; I don't remember. But I was making a big
salary, 225 dollars a month.
P: So you could afford to live the life of luxury.
L: I could afford it, yes.
P: So then you moved from there in the fall into a house.
L: Into a house out beyond where the president's home is three or
four blocks back in there--a little house belonging to Beau Arnold's
father. I didn't like the house, but when the war came along he
wanted to sell it and he offered it to me. I didn't want to buy it,