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

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Dedicated To GUS MACY HODGES For his outstanding service to the University of Texas Law School, the Society of the Peregrinus proudly dedicates the nineteen hundred and sixty-one edition to Professor Gus M. Hodges. With humor and wit he has given his students respect for accuracy and clarity of expression, and for the necessity of thought before speech. Professor Hodges' contribution to the field of law, to our training as lawyers, and to the Law School has been immense. We are proud to have the opportunity of dedicating the Peregrinus to such a man. 5 The Editors

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This Issue of the Peregrinus Is Dedicated to Gus Macey Hodges He entered this school over thirty years ago. He was a student of first rank. He wrote many of the best of the notes and comments of the Law Review. He graduated with highest honors. He was admitted to the honor societies. He married an amiable and lovely philanthropist and also became a philanthropist and with her continually benefited humanity by wit, music and song. He practiced law until his talent and prowess compelled invitation to join this faculty, which he accepted over twenty years ago. He has conducted his classes thoroughly and effectively. He has put the core of his work into treatise form, to the profit and appreciation of students and of the bar, and is extending his experience and his knowledge and wisdom into casebooks. He works, laughs, guffaws, illustrates, deplores, rejoices, expostulates, explodes, glows good humor and good sense, is a best teacher, a best friend and a best gentleman. He is beloved by his students, his fellows, his fellow-lawyers and his fellow man. He and his spirit are a part of this school forevermore. A Friend