169 called Blue Key a "G-- D--- Racket!" When I recovered from the shock and humiliation of such a charge, I set out to try to prove that he was mistaken. The committee gave me 60 days--or thereabouts; but at the end of the period I had to report that I was unable to disprove the statement, although I had made every effort to do so. When I returned to Florida several years later, I discovered that Florida Blue Key had broken away from Blue Key National, and that every class initiated, even now, is informed that the National organization, founded on our campus and with one of our own deans serving as permanent president, is a racket. A man who ought to be honored and respected on the campus and everywhere he goes in Florida, as indeed all teachers and administrators at the University should, is afraid of his own shadow on the campus and rarely, if ever, makes his appearance before any student group. Shortly after my criticism of the General Extension Division, there began to appear numerous news stories concerning its activities and achievements in recent years. For awhile the Division received almost as much publicity as the rest of the University combined. Some of this publicity was misleading, to say the least. Take the story of the correspondence course in interior decoration, which was designed to "help Floridians live more comfortably." My information--and I believe it to be reliable--is that this course has cost thousands of dollars to develop; but only a handful of students have taken and completed the course, which is several years old. Since the publicity of the University has been rigidly controlled, it is natural to assume that there was more interest in trying to cover up bad situations than in getting to the bottom of them and cleaning them up. The dishonesty--intellectual, the worst type in a university--in the Engineering College is well known internally. One case was brought up in 1945. The Congressional investigation of WPA in 1939 had brought out the fact that the University football team had been placed on a "WPA" project on the campus "under fictitious indentification numbers." For allowing this to be done, the state WPA director and several minor officials were relieved of their positions. But what did the University administration, which should at least maintain standards as high as the WPA, do in this case? The "cover-up" was artful and deceiving. The "dean of the University," referred to in the Congressional report as one who "conspired to commit this illegal act," was not the dean of the University at all, but the dean of the College of Engineering. This person told me himself that he was "taking the rap." Was he? The next year after the report had been issued and after the "little men" on the WPA, certainly not the chief culprits, had lost their jobs, the man who claimed he "took the rap" was given what was undoubtedly the largest increase in salary ever given to an employee up to that time. This was the year when increases were based on "merit." When this matter was brought up by me in 1945, there was a burst of publicity concerning the achievements of this man and his college. The man who "took the rap" and received the big increase, was really paid, so the publicity would have you believe, for his great scientific ability and achievement in directing the development of the "VT fuse" used at the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and elsewhere. Even the cabinet was told of this great achievement. But the story was nothing more or less than a hoax perpetrated upon the people of Florida. The fuse developed at the University of Florida never did get into actual production until after the war, and had no connection with the ones used at the Battle of the Bulge and Iwo Jima. Of course there were certificates of merit, etc., from the Navy, and even an Admiral was invited to talk about it at Commencement last year. But the Garson brothers and their "Erie Basin" firm received