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"No, it's about the same size in student population. I wouldn't
say it was any better than the university here. It does have
one problem, a big problem always, and that's the medical school.
It's located in Denver and it's always been a problem with them
to finance it properly, and we read about it a lot in the Denver
papers." He said, "But, the school is no better than the University
of Florida." And I said no, and he said, "Well, I think I'll
write those people out there in Colorado that I'm not interested
in the job." Well, I knew that my friend Bob Stearns had
been selected to be president two years before. That's what they
did out there at that time, and I've known several presidents
of the University of Colorado. But Bob Stearns was a
lawyer in Denver, and he was selected as dean of the law school
three years before Dr. Goerge Narlin retired. A friend of mine,
Ben M. Cherington, who later was president of the University of
Denver, did you ever know him?
P: I didn't know him.
L: What a remarkable and somewhat controversial person. But people
would laugh at it right now. He believed in the study of international
relations. He believed in the League of Nations, as I did.
P: You said you had talked to him about this appointment?
K: Bob Stearns. I said, "Now, why does Bob want to give up his law
practice," he was a member of one of the most prestigious law
firms in the West, "to be dean of the College of Law?" He says,
"Oh, Bob is going up there to be an assistant to Dr. Narlin as
well as dean of law school and he's been selected as the next
president of the University of Colorado." I knew Bob and his
wife fairly well. As a matter of fact, Bob wrote a poem about
me one night after I'd given a talk to a group on Denver. "I
love to hear Angus harangus, of money and credit and things..."
I was discussing the concept of the flexible dollar that Roosevelt
had in that period, that Al Smith called the rubber dollar. This
concept was to have a dollar which had the same purchasing power
one year as it had the next year, based upon commodities rather
than gold; we went off the gold standard.
P: In '34.
L: So Iwas asked to discuss that with a group of Denver people, and
I believe A.D. H. Kaplan. .
P: I know who he is.
L: Kaplan is a friend of mine, and there was another person, we were