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to MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY Throughout the building students sing, dance, cheer, and listen to students who make music. Wherever you go, whatever you do in the University, music, in some form, provides a background. To that music and to the makers of music the Ibis is dedicated.
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He Loved To Teach... DR. ORTON LOWE October 16. 1872 — January 6. IV IS Ok TON Lowe came to the University of Miami in 1928. The school was young then, an unsure project. When he agreed to head the English department Dr. Lowe became one of those magnificent gamblers who. with Dr. Ashe and Dr. Pearson, relinquished safe jobs in established universities because they wanted to build their own school. Slowly through the years. Orton Lowe made our English department. Its progressive spirit is his spirit. Its variety and incipient thoroughness mirrors his searching mind. Through his conception of the Winter Institute of Literature in 1911, be brought academic distinction to the University and needed cultural service to the community He strove to impregnate in his students his own deep appreciation for fine literature. Shakespeare's plays, he loved best of all his courses: teaching is too poor a word to describe his in terpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies and com edies. He wanted his students to see. as he saw. the universal, intellectual and spiritual wisdom of Shakespeare. Orton Lowe was an inspiring teacher. He loved to teach. He taught more than his academic subject. English. He taught his students to evaluate things, to realize exhilerating peace-of mind does not come from money-grabbing and the ostentatious show of vanity. In his classes he digressed into economics, history, philosophy, personalities, psychology, science: everything interested him. everything he correlated into a thinking-through of life. The student who wanted knowledge, who tried hard. Orton Lowe helped and encouraged: but he was irritated with the lazy fellow. If the disinterested slacker did not respond to well-meant, well-timed and sharply thrust brain-pricks. Dr. Lowe would have none of him. And certainly no jolly moron could bluff through Dr. Lowe's examinations: they were truly tests of one's thorough or not-so-thorough knowledge of the subject. Students would blurt. That was a tough one! But they admired the man who refused to trifle his geniality to the question sheet. Through his exacting respect for his sub jects. Dr. Lowe helped to raise the standards of the University of Miami. He was intellectually honest with himself and he believed the primary importance of college was to teach students to
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