University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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LETTER FROM THE DEAN W. Page Keeton Dean and Professor of Law ABi LLB, Texas, 1931; SJD, Harvard, 1936 Former Dean of Oklahoma Law School Subject: Torts UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN 12 To the Law Students: It is now reasonably certain that we will be in new quarters before the second semester of the 1953-1954 school year. We may even be able to begin the school year in our new building, Townes Hall. While to the alumni, faculty, and students alike this will be the occasion for great rejoicing, because our needs can no longer be met by our present building, it is fitting that this issue of Peregrinus should have substantial space devoted to scenes in and around the building that we are vacating and which has been the place where most of the great lawyers of this state received their professional training. Not long ago, an alumnus who graduated around 1915 said to me that he hoped the new building would not be completed in time for occupancy at the beginning of the 1953-1954 school year, because his son would be entering Law School at that time and he wanted him to have at least a part of his instruction in the same building. It is proper and fitting that this feeling should have existed; it is an indication that a good many things had happened to him in and around the law building for which he was grateful and about which he had fond recollections. In our rejoicing, therefore, over our prospects for the future in Townes Hall, let us also now and in the future as we examine these pages give thanks for the fine traditions of this Law School, and for the great things that have been accomplished for its graduates, for Texas, and for the improvement of the administration of justice because of what has transpired, through the efforts of faculty and graduates alike since 1908, in the hallowed quarters (I almost said ruins) that we have called the Law Building. Sincerely, C Page Keeton Dean