University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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University of Miami dedication ceremonies. Thousands gathered on Coral Way to watch festivities of Gables Progress Week. plete from land Where the mother raccoon, only resident pedagogue to date, was teaching her young to scrub their faces and watch out for hawks. Merrick pledged 34. million in cash and 160 acres on the outskirts of Coral Gables. A realtor offered S1 mil- lion for a building to the memory of William Jennings Bryan. Another enthusiast pledged a conservatory of music. A Board of Regents was formed, a State Charter granted. ln the spring of 1926 the framework of the first building was dedicated in a fanfare of optimism. Nine months later the boom had broken, the pledges were impossible to fulfill, a hurricane had turned the proud young Magic City into a welter of torn trees, beached boats and broken hopes. The University opened on schedule that fall-not on aan artificial hill 200 feet high, which will be the highest spot in Dade County -but in an unfinished abandoned hotel. Pupils who were to woo the muse in ducal splendor whipped together an orchestra in the resounding corridors of the uCardboard Collegef' Somehow the Miami idea of superimposing a full-fledged community on a pioneer one had backfired. Ahead of the new University of Miami was a decade of recurring crises which can only he summed up as pioneering in the roughest sense. And perhaps that was all to the good. The important ideas had been there from the be- ginning . . . a college of Pan-American scope which would use the location at the crossroads of the Americas for an interchange of students, learning, good-will. These have had continuity because the Universityis luck held in one all-important respect. 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TI-IE EARLY YEARS i A gala parade through the decorated streets of Coral Gables preceded UM Born During Miami Land Boom It was certain that somebody would suggest building a university .... Miami in the mid-1920's was sleek and sassy, feeling its oats, rarin' to go. A war had been won. Coolidge pros- perity was shifting from second gear to high, and in South Florida a wonder had happened. For years the schoolbooks had been saying that the American frontier had disappeared in the l890's. But the historians were thinking about the West where the Indians were long since safe on reservations. They overlooked the Florida frontier where Seminoles remained free, buckaroos were wrangling scrub cattle and pioneer families were making arrowroot starch in palmetto-bordered clearings. Right up to World War I you could find as rip-snorting a frontier in South Florida as any Red Gulch in Colorado 50 years before. Excepting this . . . beyond the borders of the unexploited and almost empty Southern half of the Florida peninsula was a fully-developed 20th Century people bursting with energy, money and curiosity. -Some few had long known that along a stretch of water known as Biscayne Bay the winters were warm, the air salubrious and the sea full of fish. Once get that idea into the minds of snow-weary Northerners and you could start a stampede. George Merrick did just that. His father, the Rev. Solomon Merrick, had homesteaded a mile or so back from the-Bay when all you had to do to claim land was level the pines and keep an eye out for the varmints. 26 George was a pioneer kid with a taste for romantic poetry. His father sent him for his education way up North to Rollins. When George returned to the empty piney woods, everything combined to make him the man to give the signal to outsiders that started the rush to Coral Gables. There was the land. He had the imagination. The time was ripe. They came in busses and trains by the tens of thou- sands. The auctioneers' hammers rapped values skyward. The unbroken cover of Caribbean pine became a checker- board of sidewalks, streets and canals. Across the Bay a mangrove swamp was pumped full of sand to make Miami Beach and its satellite islands and causeways. Americais last frontier really had disappeared. Americans like to live within the sound of a school bell. The newcomers brought with them the universal American idea thatgevery American child has the right to an educa- tion plumb to the top of his capacity. But the little red schoolhouse would not do well at all-not for this com- munity which built skyscraper hotels in the wilderness and imported Italian gondolas to glide between canal banks still scarred by the teeth of the dredging buckets. Talk of a university began to circulate. William E. Walsh tossed in the idea of open-air school- ing, a revival of the natural setting in which Plato lec- tured under equally benign skies. But George Merrick, whose dreams always had substance, saw a towering Spanish Renaissance palace of education springing com-

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I ln the early days of Coral Gables, sporty autos were parlced on Coral Way while sports fans got World Series results. I927 VIEW of Ponce de Leon Blvd. shows complete First National Bank, but other construction was still spotty. i948 VIEW of Ponce de Leon Blvd. shows how Coral Gab- les grew in 2l years. Post war years were the best. City. University The University is dependent on the community. It draws many students from Greater Miami. Its activities are inter-linked. It shares the same prospects of growth and usefulness. The history of the past two decades is not one of isolated development-with the University off to one side. The fortunes of both went in double harness. The home city of Coral Gables and the University were born twins. The school received its charter three Weeks ahead of the city, but the city had the head start in build- ing. Since then they have swapped favors-an education for Coral Gables children, a friendly and beautiful setting for the University. Occasionally someone grumbles that the University is named for the parent city of Miami. Wfhy not the University of Coral Gables? At the gate- ways stand signs to soothe these feelings, reading: 4'The University of Miami at Coral Gablesf, Architeeturally the University has broken with its 1 'rslsgg -. , X K. 'ix s wir 1 'If 'Z ' - si-:sys 5. t sage, ...M has as . X.,.sq-,wvssgpsowg NA s Y X Q, ' in f 1 -as . I - mrs- Q- . .. fax, -' i5'a:f-cfffsiw-st-S, ft , ti ' .'1..,i:.:7..g..1' :,1 .... :,.':..g.-:1.:f':.'::C1 .. X' Iwi i ..., . ..-,Q ........ ..,, . ...... 1 ....,.-..o..,.is:ii::.::ts...p .. - 1::4-:ww wif-f.-was wir- sw. Mfr--ffizzsgg-was Msg- sy ' 341' iw .us-:W , 'r 's S .....i . was-is .-s:s---.-.gs-.1-.1 r P Y i 'Q tif . . . ' 4 . K av m-'f:- , ffl-,mf r , . if sf t.. ,, an . N ' ' ' - rf'-.fag t. ng.: . ,xfkgi v X-' V- . fs- - s V ' ' ' , , - f ?.-1 ' .I P 5 N 'Q sl. H . A siricfii is tg, ' ff' T, - X ix I-I if M , .. I , NV M kfimv t s.,l.f.t tt .I ,wg P x , ' Q , V ' . , I If ' . .,,. V . Q , K ' 2. - G .- - t. DOUGLAS ENTRANCE, shown immediately after its com- pletion, represents proposed Gables architectural theme. 28