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I always thought Mac & Joe’s was the soul of the university. In regards to Cook Field, it’s more like the spleen of the university, a useful organ but you can live a long healthy life after a splenectomy.
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My time on the Miami campus is quite dated, but I remember Cook Field as a big empty open field where students would cut across on the way to class and dorms, and also where the archery targets were occasionally set up. I am not sure I ever set foot on it but I lived in south quad and never needed to go that direction.
From other comments made, later intramurals were played there. If the Arena is built there, then they will move intramurals to the former site of Millett. That’s where my intramural flag football and softball teams used to practice back in my day.
Interesting, I posted something like this yesterday in another thread
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The soul fluctuates over the years. I would postulate the current soul is Brick:
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I would say that the soul is the entire campus.
I find it interesting that all of the discussion is about the aesthetics relating to Cook when we’re building a large (and necessary) parking lot next to East Quad.
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The soul of Miami is the sum of its parts. Certainly it is the brick, the arch, the walk, the great drinking establishments, the academics, the alumni, etc, but in reality it is simply that we are Miami and they are not.
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Can’t leave Slant Walk off this list!
Correct, that is what I meant by “the walk”. Should have been a little more specific. “Back in the day” I would have put Withrow Court on the list as well as The Purity. You can chip away at the parts, but The Soul remains and grows.
The soul of Miami is bell tower dining hall
What about Tuffy”s- the home of the toasted roll?
Here I always thought it was my freshman year room in Morris Hall.
I was also in Morris Hall my frosh year…fall of 1974.