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

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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

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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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— Hon. Charles M. Nagel, Law. ’72. entered early in¬ to public life, serving first as a member of the Mis¬ souri State Legislature, then as president of the St. Louis City Council and, still later, as Republican National Committeeman. From 1909 to 1913, he was Secretary of Commerce and Labor in President Taft’s Cabinet. Charles M. Nagel, Law, ’72 HE greatest interpreter of composite American sentiment, Abraham Lincoln, said: “He who moulds public senti¬ ment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pro¬ nounces clecisions. He makes statutes or decisions pos¬ sible or impossible to be executed.” The most serious struggles have their beginning, not in the tribunals of justice, but far back in the minds and hearts of a people who are blessed or burdened with the all-absorbing task of self-government. In meeting that task the lawyer should be the faithful counselor; and to prepare him for that under¬ taking, in mind and in character, is at least one of the provinces of a law school.