T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Paul C. Young

COLLECTION: 4700.0066

IDENTIFICATION: [1892 - 1991] LSU psychology professor 1925 - 1960

INTERVIEWER: Jack Fiser

PROJECT: LSU History

DATE: 1980

FOCUS DATES: 1920s - 1940s

ABSTRACT:

Educational background; Head of Department of Psychology in the 1920s and 1930s C. H. Bean; Psychology Department as part of the School of Education; LSU President James Monroe Smith and corruption; Huey Long firing LSU employees; faculty objection to paying deducts; Professor Cyril Smith's high academic standards and losing his job because of them; Charles Coates as absent-minded professor; discusses being the subject of rumors and relates some of the outrageous ones students told about him; teaching sex education at LSU and around the state; giving speeches on WJBO and having them published in newspapers around the state; describes psychology professor Harry M. Capps; use of political connections by some students to get grades changed; Head of the Psychology Department Nicholas Hobbs; Dr. Clarence Lorio (Huey Long crony) returning cattle that he appropriated from LSU to campus to avoid arrest; hiring a fraud to teach psychology at LSU; faculty afraid of Huey Long; John Uhler being fired for writing Cane Juice and being rehired at insistence of the faculty; reasons faculty members stayed at LSU during the Depression

TAPES: T 74

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: .5 hours

PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 28 pages

RESTRICTIONS: Copyright retained by interviewee's heirs

NOTE: The transcript contains more information than the copy of the tape donated by Mr. Fiser.