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P: We can find out. Let me ask you something, Angus. Don't
you think it was rather strange for a president of the University
of Florida to be turning over this kind of an investigation to
a student organization, even one as influential as Florida
Blue Key?
L: Yes, and the Blue Key members thought so. Bill Carleton
told me so. He said that Tigert couldn't face the facts. Here
he had these two men, they were just fighting each other
publicly, apparently, I wasn't there at the time the first
year Tigert. was there, and he turned it over to the Bule Key to tell
him what to do.
P: A university president would not turn over that kind of an activity
to a student organization today.
L: Yes. Tigert had never had much to do with university administration
at that time, when he became president of the university.
P: He had been president of a small college, I beleive, in Kentucky.
L: A very small school. Well, now, are you sure he was president?
I understood that he was the professor of Psychology.
P: Well, I'll check, the records would show this.
[President, Kentucky Wesleyan College 1909-11]
L: Well, the records would show that. You be sure of the source of
your records.
P: Yes, I know who supplies the material that goes into a Who's Who
write-up also.
L: Yes. I worked for Who's Who, and they've got them all over and
I can show you a few things.
P: I know what we're saying. That situation with the infirmary
which developed during the years of World War II, which eventually
lead to the investigation of Dr. Tigert and his resignation, was
a very sad chapter in university history, and as it turned out
was a nasty thing.
L: Yes. And the university tried to cover up the infirmary in that.
By that time, I was pretty disillusioned with university life.
During the war years, I had done some work on my doctorate. I
finished all the classwork at the University of Chicago beforel
came back to the university and all I had to was to pass German