Great Hall Research Articles

Looking Inward, Looking Backward: Reminiscence and the Life Review

The process of looking inward and looking backward over time at the life one has lived is a natural and healthful integrative process of aging. Life review and oral reminiscence are sources of heroic myth and legend. In the Odyssey, Demodocus, old and blind like Homer himself, the sacred minstrel/To whom the gods have given power/To gladden us with song, sang or chanted each evening in the great hall before young and old, servant and master, the deeds of those who had lived before.l The epic song served as a kind of communal ritual to pass on the dreams and sorrows of a culture from one generation to the next. But, in addition to serving as a mode of transmission of culture, of providing historical continuity, life review also serves important functions for the individual reviewer. As Florida Scott-Maxwell has said:

Pabellón Pablo Picasso - Champagne <sup>s</sup>/Seine – Francia

This pavilion that is designed as a cultural sports and leisure time centre has the shape of 5,80 m high rectangular truncated pyramid. It consists of: ground floor with lobby, a great hall of the same height as the entire building, sports premises; a mezzanine floor with workshop and Ieisure time activity rooms. The structure is of reinforced concrete and consists of pillars that in their elevation have the shape of rectangular triangles whose hypotenuses that are situated on the outside, give the building its sloping form. The ceiling is formed by means of big box beams which rest on the pillars. The interior decoration is even in its smallest details made up by masonry elements which provide greater durability and resistance. Both on the outside as well as the inside the building is equipped with very elaborate lighting systems which create a vivid and attractive atmosphere. With this construction it has been demonstrated that even in smaller localities it is possible to achieve elegant public buildings within the framework of a reduced budget.

The Excavation of the Great Hall at Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, 1973

The final Great Hall at Bolingbroke Castle was probably constructed in the late 14th or early 15th century. The hall was partly demolished in the early 17th century, although its north-east end was retained until the later 17th century, perhaps used to provide accommodation for the auditors of the Duchy of Lancaster. This article deals with this final phase in the life of the castle and contains an analysis of the 16th- to 17th-century pottery from the castle, which is of importance in the study of early post-Medieval ceramics in the East Midlands.

Edificio del Congreso Bad-Gastein – Austria

One of the most outstanding characteristics of this Congress Centre is its great adaptation to the hilly ground on which it is situated occupying a very small area and having successfully solved the problem of a difference of elevation of 50%. The entrance to the building is on the top floor, placed at the level of the street that limits the plot in its highest section. On this floor, which is covered by a transitable terrace, are the various offices and premises for the use of the congress members. Below the entrance level is the technical floor which holds all the installations of the building and immediately below this floor is the great congress hall in two levels and with a varying capacity of 800 to 1,500 persons. Finally, two storeys, situated in the lowest part of the building, are reserved for storage rooms, and garages. The construction has almost entirely been carried out by means of prefabricated members, out of which the most important ones are: columns with square cross-section, with big supporting heads that support an approximate load of 2,000 t; the girder in the shape of an inverted T; and the double ceilings of prefabricated plates which by means of concrete foundations rest upon the caisson ceiling in squares of double web girders.

A general practitioner looks at violence

Let me first confess to a certain degree of anxiety at the task that has been set for me. In the face of such a highly informed audience I am wide open to the charge of being a grand-matriarchal oval aspiration instructor, and I am reminded of the story of Hiram B. Goodchild who survived the Johnstown floods in Pennsylvania in 1889, in which some 2300 people were drowned as the result of a reservoir bursting. Hiram never tired of retelling his experiences, and became one of the best known bores in the state. This reputation did not pass unnoticed by St. Peter, for when he in due course arrived at the pearly gates and was asked if he had any special requests, the saint’s face fell when Hiram said that he would like to address a combined meeting of the archangels, cherubim and seraphim. After a moment the saint’s countenance cleared as he recalled that this sort of thing was the concern of the Archangel Gabriel, coming under the heading of “Communication”. Gabriel, too, was a little depressed at the request, but in the end agreed, and in due season the archangels, cherubim and seraphim were assembled in the Great Hall, with Gabriel occupying the chair. Just as Hiram B. Goodchild was about to address the congregation, Gabriel said, “I think it only fair to tell you that Mr and Mrs Noah and their family are seated in the front row”. Obviously I am no expert, and the view that I shall present is that of a generalist. I do not altogether apologise for this, for expertise can in itself present problems, as is well illustrated by what I am assured is the true story of a certain stipendiary magistrate, who regarded himself as something of an expert upon drugs. Before him was a defendant charged with illegally possessing cannabis resin, and the prosecution, being uncertain as to whether this was the genuine article or a mixture of sawdust, treacle, curry powder and glue, were seeking an adjournment to obtain an analyst’s report. The stipendiary would have none of this. “Pass it up here”, he said, “I know cannabis

Excavations on the Site of the Baths Basilica at Wroxeter 1966-1974: An Interim Report

The complex of the public baths at Wroxeter (that part of the site at present open to the public) was entered from a great basilican hall through doors in the Old Work, the standing north wall of the frigidarium of the baths (A on FIG. 1). Earlier excavations, beginning with Thomas Wright's in 1859 and extending at intervals up to the present day, have shown that the basilica was an aisled hall (B) 73 m (240 ft.) long and 20 m (65 ft.) broad with a portico (C) extending the whole length of its northern side. At its east end was an annexe with a small additional room in one corner. At the west end (D) Thomas Wright found evidence of an entrance ‘with a considerable amount of architectural ornamentation’. The south aisle and the nave were paved with tiles arranged in a herring-bone pattern, but the north aisle was divided into compartments with mosaic floors, some of which were removed in the nineteenth century. North of the portico ran a street which bounded the baths insula.

Glimpses of Suez 1956

So much has been written about the steep hill of Suez that anyone presuming to comment after seventeen years is bound to feel a sense of emptiness on the subject. Notwithstanding the miles of speeches in the United Nations record, the tons of newsclippings and of observers' comments, the volumes of documented academic discourse, the memoirs and impure fiction, I suspect that it would take a long and noisy reunion of the entire cast of the crisis to piece together what did happen throughout the days and weeks and eventually months during which the General Assembly dinned on. Many of the principals can no longer be mustered. On television, that Suez spectacle was the Watergate hearing of its day. New Yorkers even forgot for a while to push and yell and claw at each other, so intently were they watching the tube flicker and flash the faces of speakers on the podium, the huddles around national desks, the scampering to and fro of bagmen and arm-twisters. Inside the United Nations Headquarters, the great hall was packed to standing-room-only high in the public gallery, the Secretariat slab blazed with lights night after night, the bar in the North Lounge, where Walter presided over his superb whiskey sours, never closed until the gavel had banged the Assembly silent. It was a time of high drama what with Suez in the Assembly Hall, Hungary in the Security Council Chamber, and, later, the Eleventh Assembly, with all its old standards,

El gimnasio de la universidad de Princeton – (EE. UU.)

The building is made up of two levels, to hold 10,000 people. The top floor houses: athletics track, four tennis courts, basketball, hand-ball, volley-ball and badminton. The ground floor includes the throwing area, shooting, squash, wrestling, fencing, and the betweenfloor with offices and machine rooms. The metal roof structure is characteristic and extremely interesting; it comprises three parts: a conically shaped half dome, and two intermediate support triangular shapes, which also acto to give daylight to the great hall, which is free from vertical supports.

Amputations through the ages.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of SurgeryVolume 42, Issue 3 p. 221-230 Amputations Through the Ages1 ROBERT S. LAWSON, Corresponding Author ROBERT S. LAWSON Melbourne20 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic. 3000.Search for more papers by this author ROBERT S. LAWSON, Corresponding Author ROBERT S. LAWSON Melbourne20 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic. 3000.Search for more papers by this author First published: February 1973 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1973.tb06784.xCitations: 2 1 Ninth Gordon-Taylor Memorial Lecture, delivered in the Great Hall, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, on September 27, 1972. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume42, Issue3February 1973Pages 221-230 RelatedInformation

The Great Hall of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford

CAREFUL examination of the horizontal beams above the arches framing the arcades of the 12th-century great hall of the bishop's palace at Hereford has brought to light additional structural evidence shewing that the hall, as originally built, had a clerestory and separate pent-roofs over the aisles. The proposed reconstruction is discussed with reference to surviving but incomplete examples of the same date at Leicester and Farnham, where the evidence for the architectural form is inconclusive. It is compared with earlier illustrations, including those in the Bayeux Tapestry. The evidence of the churches of late 10th and 11th-century date with transverse (diaphragm) arches is also adduced.

El nuevo tribunal de justicia de Mannheim - Alemania Federal

This building is sited right in the civic centre of the town, and use is made of new materials and all resources provided by modern technology, but a suitable harmony is sought with the surrounding buildings and with the purpose of construction itself. The result is successful in respect to its formal aspect and to the functionality of its great hall, the offices and the five large courts of law.

Interview with Chou En-lai

This text is a transcript of tape recordings made by members of the CCAS Friendship Delegation to China during their four-hour interview with Premier Chou En-lai on July 19th, 1971, in the Great Hall of the People, Peking. It is as full and complete as possible given the condition of our tapes, which had inaudible words and sentences. Some sections or words were difficult to distinguish: our reconstruction of them was part memory, part guesswork, part translation of the Chinese when this was audible and the English translation was not.

The Unborn Child*

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and GynaecologyVolume 11, Issue 3 p. 129-138 The Unborn Child* Sir Norman Jeffcoate, Sir Norman Jeffcoate President, Royal College of Obstetricians and GynaecologistsSearch for more papers by this author Sir Norman Jeffcoate, Sir Norman Jeffcoate President, Royal College of Obstetricians and GynaecologistsSearch for more papers by this author First published: August 1971 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1479-828X.1971.tb00467.x *The XVIth Arthur Wilson Memorial Oration delivered in The Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, on March 22nd, 1971 at the opening of the Tenth Australian Congress of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume11, Issue3August 1971Pages 129-138 RelatedInformation

A Tribute to the Life and Work of Hugh L. Dryden

As you will understand, I feel a mixture of responsibility and awe on this very special occasion, the opening scientific session of the first annual meeting in our new auditorium. Since the topic of the session is closely related to a lifetime interest of our cherished colleague, Hugh L. Dryden, and since a substantial part of the funds for this auditorium were given in his name, the planners of this session have asked me to speak briefly about Dr. Dryden. I am particularly pleased to make these remarks at this time, following the achievement of the several lunar manned missions. Dryden's professional life was directed as if by fate to the scientific and technological triumph represented by a successful Apollo program. Today we have scaled that peak and are privileged to inspect new vistas. As we all know, the completion of our building is the realization of a dream which burned brightly in the soul of George Ellery Hale more than 50 years ago after he became actively involved in Academy affairs, and which began taking tangible form just after World War I, when Charles Doolittle Walcottone of our most remarkable and effective presidentsand his colleagues procured this plot of land with the aid of a small group of private donors. The generosity of the Carnegie Corporation then made it possible to erect the faqade wing and great hall of this building. Wallace Harrison, one of the junior architects involved in the original work, led by Bertram Goodhue, has been the architect for what has been erected since. In the prosperous years following World War II, Dr. Bronk revived the original dream of completing the building, and succeeded in procuring the funds for the two wings which flank the original structure on the east and west. One wing was the gift of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and the other was the result of contributions from private sources and the National Science Foundation. A residue remained

Et Nova et Vetera*

Australian and New Zealand Journal of SurgeryVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 219-229 Et Nova et Vetera* B. K. Rank, B. K. Rank MelbourneSearch for more papers by this author B. K. Rank, B. K. Rank MelbourneSearch for more papers by this author First published: February 1971 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1971.tb04064.xCitations: 1 *Sixth Gordon-Taylor Memorial Lecture, given in the Great Hall, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, on October 30, 1969, and in Sydney on August 7, 1970. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume40, Issue3February 1971Pages 219-229 RelatedInformation

Navex-69 Conference

The great exhibition hall of London's Olympia provided a fitting venue for the 1969 Conference and Exhibition of the National Committee for Audio-visual aids in Education. Readers of Audio-Visual Media will be interested to learn that the special 1970 exhibition and conference, which will be coupled with the ICEM's Annual General Assembly and an international conference, will also be located at Olympia.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

So NAVEX 69 is over. Looking at the 95 stands of the exhibition of audio‐visual aids and materials in the great hall at Olympia no one would have suspected that this is a year for education in which the bread has been very thinly buttered indeed. It was only when one eaves‐dropped on teacher conversations on the stands and in the bar that one could piece together a refrain which seemed to go ‘It's all very nice, but we haven't got the money to buy’. Neither is there nor the money to rent either, and it would seem that Rank REC has entered the market at an inauspicious time with its admirable Talking Page. At least this would appear to be so since the first programmes for the Talking Page are aimed at the primary school. In this period of parsimony it is encouraging to note the move made by the forward thinking Inner London Education Authority which has offered to pay for two years half the cost of all audio‐visual equipment ordered by secondary schools and two thirds of the cost of primary school orders. This scheme will relieve the strain on capitation allowances and will act very definitely in the favour of the primary school. In this way the progression of educational technology will not necessarily be over‐slowed in the London area. This view is not taken by many in education who, if there are cuts to be made, would place educational technology high on their list of priorities for retrenchment.

Biblioteca de libros raros, en Yale, (U.S.A.)

In the new and original great exhibition hall for Yale University, a library, organised on six levels, has been provided to accommodate 180.000 highly valuable books and manuscripts. Below the hall there is a control centre from which the library is run: this includes control office, other offices, as well as reading and seminar rooms. In another basement there is a book store where 820.000 additional books can be kept. The structure of this building is spectacular, and its enclosing materials are beautiful and of extremely shiny appearance, both by night and day.

Pabellón Ikuta en la Universidad de Senshu, Japón

This building has two components: a major and a secondary one. The former has three storeys, of which the ground floor is taken up with a dining hall for 300 people, the second includes the great hall, and a tea room, and the third has a large vestibule, a council chamber, and rooms for lectures, seminars and other activities. The secondary component houses the offices and other services of the pavilion. The construction materials are mainly untreated concrete and glazing.

Karl Haushofer and the German Academy, 1925–1945

On February 10, 1944, a colorful ceremony took place in the great hall of the University of Munich. The occasion was the official inauguration of Reich Minister Arthur Seyss-Inquart as President of the German Academy. Under swastika banners lining the front of the auditorium sat the General Secretary of the Academy, Dr. Matthias Schmitz; Vice-President Professor Walther Wüst; Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels; and Dr. Seyss-Inquart himself. The organization which Seyss-Inquart had been chosen to head had in nineteen years achieved a predominant position in teaching the German language to foreigners and in promoting German culture at home and abroad. Its world-wide network of schools was particularly strong in southern and eastern Europe.