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L: Had you ever heard that?
P: I had never heard that, but I had heard the charges about Dr.
Tigert's drinking later on in his life, and I don't know
whether they are true or not.
L: I don't know, I never saw him take a drink.
P: Did you say that you launched an investigation of the infirmary?
L: Yes.
P: Was this while you were a student on the Alligator?
L: A new student.
P: Oh, not later on?
L: Well, I was a graduate student and I knew of two cases on the
campus of students being neglected. They'd gone to see the
doctor and they couldn't see him and they were neglected. I
went to Dr. Farr and complained and I told him that had been going
on long enough and somethingjought to be done about it. That
was in the spring of 1928, when I was a graduate student. I
complained about the infirmary and I knew about the Blue Key
investigation. I knew about the death of this boy, and I
knew also of a case of a boy who was forced out of the
infirmary when he was sick in order that they could close it
for Christmas. The boy was a Miami boy; he was forced out
and he was sick. He went down, got a bus, and died in Orlando
on his way home.
P: You were not very successful in purging the infirmary, because
you were doing this in the 1920s and they were still having
problems in the 1940s with it.
L: That's right, Iwasn't very successful, but that was not a major
subject; that was an administration problem. The only faculty
member I ever had any objections to was the athletic director.
That's the only one. I was interested in purging the student
body mostly.
P: You were successful with White along with others. The athletic
director.