T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History
INTERVIEWEE
NAME: Hoguet Alexandre Major # 4700.0040
IDENTIFICATION: Professor at LSU
INTERVIEWER:
Susie Crews
PROJECT: University History
DATE(S): May 11, 1978 FOCUS DATES:
ABSTRACT:
Tape
1: T. D. Boyd; Major arrested "by
campus authorities because of Reveille editorial; student life and
activities at LSU; effects of WWI on the campus; his first car- a second-hand
Ford; met wife in lower Lafourche Parish; student body demonstrated against
reformer Cary Nation; student pranks; cadet training; new campus; Jim
Broussard; teaching and students; believes in hard work; Thomas Boyd convinced Major
to become a French instructor; graduate work at the University of Chicago in
1922 and 1923.
TAPES: T 50
CASSETTES Original 7" TOTAL PLAYING TIME:
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PAGES TRANSCRIPT/INDEX:
25
RESTRICTIONS:
None