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

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MISS HELEN HARGRAVE Law Librarian and Assistant Professor of Law Even as an undergraduate Helen Hargrave proved her leadership ability and her capacity for hard work, and showed the high regard in which she was held by her fellow students by serving simultaneously as President of Mortar Board, Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority, and Pi Beta Phi Social Sorority. After receiving her LL.B. degree from the Texas Law School and being admitted to the bar. Miss Hargrave served as Assistant Law Librarian from 1930 until 1939. In 1940, she attended Columbia University for advanced studies in Law Librarianship, was appointed Law Librarian upon her return to the Texas Law School, and has served in that capacity ever since. A member of the Executive Board of the American Association of Law Libraries, she is now on the Committee of the Law Library Journal, the official publication of the Association. She has been a member of the Public Library Board of Austin and has held Committee chairmanships on the University Library Staff Association. Her Manual for Law Library Inspectors has won acclaim throughout the United States and Canada, and our own Tarlton Library is a tribute to her genius and perseverance. In recognition of her past achievements in the field of Law Librarianship and in gratitude for her excellence as a teacher of Legal Bibliography, the staff of The 1955 Perf.crinus proudly dedicates this yearbook to Miss Helen Hargrave—an outstanding personality, a gracious lady, and a cherished friend. PAGE 5

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1949 ROBERT WELDON STAYTOK Distinguished Professor . in 60 Sji' r° e. '£» 1952 LEON GREEN Distinguished Professor

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1949 EDITOR 1950 EDITOR 1951 EDITOR 1952 EDITOR Pat Tennant Woodrow Bean Connell Ashley Robert B. McLeaish, Jr. Judge W. S. Sinikins’ Own Story of Peregrinus 1953 EDITOR Charles E. McDonald You ask for the origin of Ppj«mo]nus. I well remember its birth,—in fact I was present at the accouchement. “This nondescript sprang fully armed and equipped for its mission not from a mental love, but from a disordered brain of a Savage. “Many years ago I was trying to explain to the class in Equity, the origin of the system in Rome and the sources of Equity in the Roman Empire. At that time fledglings just from the high schools were admitted to the Law School. Many of them had never heard of the Roman Empire, and not a few spelled cow with a K.“ Well, I explained to them that when Rome conquered a nation it was incorporated into the Roman Empire subject to its own laws and not to the laws of Rome—that the Roman citizen was not subject to the laws of these incorporated nations—that in due course commerce sprang up be tween the citizens of Rome and the barbaric nations, and there was no law to determine and settle their contractual relations. The Roman Emperor, to settle the troubles arising out of the fact that there was no law applicable to control their contract, appointed a Praetor or chancellor to travel among these nations and to settle all disputes without reference to the laws of Rome, or of the incorporated Nations, but to do justice and decide all disputes, alone by the conscience of the Praetor. Preregrinating from one nation to the other, he was called a Praetor Peregrinus. “The boneheads of the class evidently thought that Peregrinus was an internal organ of the body, for they continually greeted each other, ‘How is your Peregrinus today?’ This fact seems to have developed the humorous side of the incident, and Russell Savage developed a concrete expression of it on the black board, and thus the tradition began. Russell drew better than he knew, for the nondescript animal symbolizes both in limb and attitude the maxims in Equity that guide the administration of the system. For instance, on one of the front feet as originally drawn was an Irish ditcher’s boot—indicating the law’s protection to the least of mankind. On the other front foot were naked claws, indicating that the greatest of mankind must fear is power. The arched back in the attitude of springing, indicated that the law was ever ready to protect right or prevent wrong. The sharp beak indicated the power to penetrate the mysteries of the law, which the true student must obtain by study. The bushy tail indicated that Equity brushes away the technicalities of the law and does justice to the merits ’’ PAGE 6 1954 EDITOR Chuck Cabaniss