Washington University Saint Louis - Hatchet Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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George H. Pegram, C.E., ’87 George H. Pegram, Chief Engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York, graduated from the Civil Engineering School in 1877. He has been chief en¬ gineer for several concerns, in¬ cluding the Union Pacific Rail¬ way System. In 1893, he de¬ signed the train house of the St. Louis Union Station, and, in 1917, he was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. M WOULD advise young graduates about to enter the lists of the world’s workers to secure, if possible, contact with a great personality. It is wonderful what effect such influ¬ ences have in moulding one’s character. It is a pity that we often do not realize our obligations to these men at the time. After having been ground for a while in the mill of experi¬ ence, I happened to meet an old class-mate, while passing through St. Louis, and suggested that we give a dinner to Professor Woodward and tell him that he was the greatest teacher in the world. He replied: “What’s the use? lie knows it.” That seemed sufficient, but I then realized that I had not known it until I had applied in practice those principles which his homely illustrations had fixed in my mind. So it has been with other great personalities to whom l am like¬ wise indebted.

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Fannie Hurst received her degree from the University in 1909 and, since that time, she has done much in the field of literature. Not satisfied with merely writing interesting stor¬ ies. she has served in various capacities, such as saleswom¬ an, waitress and the like, in order to obtain a more sym¬ pathetic viewpoint As a re¬ sult, her work is known for its human and realistic ele¬ ments. Fannie Hurst, A.B., ’09 (Mrs. Jacques Danielson) HE question of the intrinsic value of college education is constantly up before the tribunal of public opinion. Do college men and women excel at the business of life? Is the college bred individual a success? Do four years of university training pay? My convictions average up on the “Yes” side. It is true that some of the most educated men and women I know have not enjoyed university training. On the other hand, the majority of educated men and women I know, have! For myself, I can only say that to my four years in college, I owe a quickened intellectual curiosity which has since helped me to ex¬ plore my way into a life of wider horizon and higher ideal. Page Twenty-five

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m hr Hon. J. Hugo Grimm grad¬ uated in the Law Class of ’86 and immediately entered into his profession as an asso¬ ciate in the firm of Hitch¬ cock, Madill and Finkelnburg. He has been judge of the Cir¬ cuit Court since 1908, and a member of the Advisory Com¬ mittee of the American Judi¬ cature Society since its or¬ ganization. J. Hugo Grimm, L.L.B.. ’86 O every man in public life, indeed to every man, I should like to commend the following statement made by one of England’s greatest lawyers. Lord Erskine: “It was a first command and counsel of my earliest youth always to do what my conscience told me to be a duty, and to leave the consequences-to God. I shall carry with me the memory, and I trust the practice, of this parental lesson to the grave. I have hitherto followed it, and I have no reason to complain that my obedience to it has been a tem¬ poral sacrifice. I have found it, on the contrary, the road to pros¬ perity and wealth.” Page Twenty-seven