Masonic Hall Research Articles

Documents, Volume 12: March–July 1843

Documents, Volume 12: March–July 1843

Maria W. Stewart, Ethnologist and Proto-Black Feminist

AbstractDiscussions about nineteenth-century African American ethnology tend to focus only on black male thinkers. In the nineteenth century, ethnology was the study of difference among humans and often used racist science to justify discrimination against blacks. Black woman thinker Maria W. Stewart (1803–1879) made important contributions to ethnology but remains understudied. I argue that Stewart is a black feminist ethnologist because she aligns herself with her black male interlocutors on the core points of ethnology. Yet Stewart adds a distinctly black feminist position to the conversation. By focusing on Stewart's speech “An Address Delivered to the African Masonic Hall” (1833), I show that she concurs with her contemporaries that black people are inherently great because of their genealogical connection to Africa. Stewart also agrees that the inherent greatness of blacks establishes their claim to sociopolitical rights. I argue that Stewart's call for racial unity makes her a proto-black feminist and is a unique feature of her contribution to African American ethnology. Stewart's call demands that white people be held responsible for the harm that they have caused to blacks, which can be remedied by the races coming together on equal footing.

The Masonic Hall Opera House: A Further Chapter in New Brunwick's Stage History: Part I

Coad continues in this article his "The First Century of the New BrunswickStage", previous published in this Journal in v.5:1 (1941), v. 5:2 (1942), and v.6:1 (1943). The account takes us through the 23 years of the Masonic Hall Opera House's career until its destruction in 1896. Coad notes that "The new theatre in Masonic Hall made possible a much more impressive program of public amusement than the small city on the Raritan had yet seen."

The Masonic Hall Opera House: A Further Chapter in New Brunwick's Stage History: Part II

Coad concludes his article on the Masonic Hall Opera House in New Brunswick with its destruction by fire 1896.

Interactive Teaching: A Concept Analysis

Interactive teaching is conceptually analyzed using the strategies of Walker and Avant to promote a common understanding of interactive teaching and to clearly explicate interactive teaching characteristics that will foster the construct validity of using interactive teaching in pedagogical research. In doing so, nurse researchers will be able to better understand and integrate interactive teaching into their research protocols, ultimately providing evidence for educators to use in determining the most effective teaching methods to incorporate into curricula. Interactive teaching is defined and examined using relevant sources; related concepts are analyzed and compared with these definitions. Antecedents, critical attributes, and consequences of interactive teaching are identified and applied in model, borderline, and contrary cases. Concluding remarks and suggestions are presented.

Ethnomedicines used in Trinidad and Tobago for reproductive problems.

BackgroundThroughout history women have tried to control or enhance their fertility using herbal remedies, with various levels of societal support. Caribbean folk medicine has been influenced by European folk medicine, either through the early Spanish and French settlers or through the continuous immigration of Spanish-speaking peoples from Venezuela. Some folk uses are ancient and were documented by Galen and Pliny the Elder.MethodsThirty respondents, ten of whom were male were interviewed from September 1996 to September 2000. The respondents were obtained by snowball sampling, and were found in thirteen different sites, 12 in Trinidad (Paramin, Talparo, Sangre Grande, Mayaro, Carapichaima, Kernahan, Newlands, Todd's Road, Arima, Guayaguayare, Santa Cruz, Port of Spain and Siparia) and one in Tobago (Mason Hall). Snowball sampling was used because there was no other means of identifying respondents and to cover the entire islands. The validation of the remedies was conducted with a non-experimental method.ResultsPlants are used for specific problems of both genders. Clusea rosea, Urena sinuata and Catharanthus roseus are used for unspecified male problems. Richeria grandis and Parinari campestris are used for erectile dysfunction.Ageratum conyzoides, Scoparia dulcis, Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita maxima, Gomphrena globosa and Justicia pectoralis are used for prostate problems.The following plants are used for childbirth and infertility: Mimosa pudica, Ruta graveolens,Abelmoschus moschatus, Chamaesyce hirta, Cola nitida, Ambrosia cumanenesis, Pilea microphylla, Eryngium foetidum, Aristolochia rugosa, Aristolochia trilobata, Coleus aromaticus, Laportea aestuans and Vetiveria zizanioides.The following plants are used for menstrual pain and unspecified female complaints:Achyranthes indica, Artemisia absinthium, Brownea latifolia, Eleutherine bulbosa, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Eupatorium macrophyllum, Justicia secunda, Parthenium hysterophorus, Wedelia trilobata, Abelmoschus moschatus, Capraria biflora, Cordia curassavica, Croton gossypifolius, Entada polystachya, Leonotis nepetaefolia, Eryngium foetidum, Aristolochia rugosa, Aristolochia trilobata and Ambrosia cumanenesis.ConclusionNative Caribbean plants have been less studied that those from Africa, India and Europe. Chamaesyce hirta has scientific support but as a diuretic. Other plants with level 3 validity for reproductive issues are: Achyranthes indica, Coleus aromaticus, Hibiscus rosa-sinesis, Parthenium hysterophorus and Ruta graveolens. The non-experimental validation method can be used to advise the public on which plants are safe, effective and useful, and which are not; pending clinical trials. This is especially important since so few clinical trials are conducted on Caribbean plants.

The Trianon and On: Reading Mass Social Dancing in the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta, Canada

Every Friday and Saturday night during the 1930s and 1940s in southern Alberta everybody danced, or so the story goes. And that is about as far as “the story” goes. Serious considerations of popular dancing are largely absent from existing historical records of this time and place, despite the apparent omnipresence of dancing in so many people's lives. Social dancing happened on a large scale at a pivotal time for community formation in Canada's West, when profound social changes occurred as the Depression gave way to World War II. What was going on besides and through and because of all that dancing? And how to investigate such an ephemeral phenomenon?Today, I can still stand in the Trianon Ballroom in Lethbridge, Alberta's third largest city and the center of the region I will discuss here. The Trianon first opened its doors as a dance hall in 1931 and ceased operating in 1961. In the 1930s and 1940s literally hundreds of little Trianon-like halls graced small Canadian prairie towns, although most of these dance halls have since disappeared. In Lethbridge alone, four major dancing establishments were packed with patrons dancing to live bands on as many as three nights a week, the YMCA offered hostess dances for military personnel, the Kiwanis club gave teen dances every Friday night, and one could dance at the Masonic Hall and in local hotels (Viel 1998, 24).

Freemasonry and Sir John Soane

Soane's activities as a Freemason, in particular the remarkable hall which he designed for the Grand Lodge in London in 1828, are here analyzed in detail for the first time. The significance of Freemasonry for Soane is exhibited by an investigation of his acquisition and study of books by writers of the Enlightenment such as d'Hancarville, Lenoir, Ledoux, Court de Gébelin, Viel de Saint-Maux, and James Christie, who were either Freemasons or sympathetic to masonic ideals. At the instigation of his friend, H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge, Soane was given the most unusual commission of designing a Masonic ark in 1813. His Masonic Hall, designed fifteen years later, was an interior rich in symbolic ornament, and bathed in a mysterious light, in which he achieved a deeper religious atmosphere than in any of his designs for Anglican churches.

On Pascal's Triangle of the Third Kind

Biometrische ZeitschriftVolume 15, Issue 6 p. 389-392 Article On Pascal's Triangle of the Third Kind† A. K. Gupta, Corresponding Author A. K. Gupta University of MichiganAssist. Prof. The University of Michigan Dept. of Statistics 1447 Mason Hall Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USASearch for more papers by this author A. K. Gupta, Corresponding Author A. K. Gupta University of MichiganAssist. Prof. The University of Michigan Dept. of Statistics 1447 Mason Hall Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 1973 https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.19730150603Citations: 2 † Part of this work was done at the University of Arizona. 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 Citing Literature Volume15, Issue61973Pages 389-392 RelatedInformation

Wilson's Arch and the Masonic Hall, Summer 1966

Previous articleNext article No AccessWilson's Arch and the Masonic Hall, Summer 1966William F. StinespringWilliam F. Stinespring Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 30, Number 1February 1967 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3210960 Journal History This article was published in The Biblical Archaeologist (1938-1997), which is continued by Near Eastern Archaeology (1998-present). Copyright 1967 American Schools of Oriental ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Mason Hall of Chemistry at Pomona College

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTMason Hall of Chemistry at Pomona CollegeEdward P. BartlettCite this: Ind. Eng. Chem. 1924, 16, 6, 638–639Publication Date (Print):June 1, 1924Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 June 1924https://doi.org/10.1021/ie50174a044RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views14Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (498 KB) Get e-Alerts

THE WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 20 p. 457-461 Article THE WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH.† J. H. L. Cumpston M.D., D.P.H., J. H. L. Cumpston M.D., D.P.H. Director of Quarantine MelbourneSearch for more papers by this author J. H. L. Cumpston M.D., D.P.H., J. H. L. Cumpston M.D., D.P.H. Director of Quarantine MelbourneSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 November 1915 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1915.tb17157.xCitations: 1 †Being a Popular Lecture delivered at Masonic Hall, Melbourne, on October 6, 1915. 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 Citing Literature Volume2, Issue20November 1915Pages 457-461 RelatedInformation

Model Dirigible at the Surrey Masonic Hall

Model Dirigible at the Surrey Masonic Hall

The Ipswich Meeting of the British Association

IN our last article we gave a general outline of the local arrangements for the Meeting. The programme, as a whole, is now fairly complete. A slight alteration has been made with reference to the soirées; the first will be given by the Ipswich Scientific Society and the Suffolk Institute of Archæology jointly, and the second by the Mayor of Ipswich (Mr. J. H. Bartlet,). The fitting up of the Section Rooms is proceeding rapidly, and arrangements are being made for the darkening of those in which a lantern will be used. In the case of Sections A and B, which meet in the same building, only the room allotted to Section B will be fitted up with dark blinds and a lantern screen, and the Sections will be asked to exchange rooms on days when papers requiring lantern illustration are read in Section A. The same arrangement will be made as to Sections D and K, which meet in the two rooms at the Masonic Hall. For the President's address in these Sections, the Lyceum Theatre, which is a short distance off, will be placed at the disposal of the Sectional Committees, as the Masonic Hall rooms may be hardly large enough to contain all those who would probably wish to be present on these particular occasions. For a similar reason, Section G, which meets in the Co-operative Hall, will be asked to allow the President's addresses in Sections A and B to be delivered there. A spacious room adjoining the main street, and within two minutes' walk of the reception room, will be set apart for a ladies club-room.

The Ipswich Meeting of the British Association

THE arrangements for the meeting of the British Association at Ipswich this autumn are making rapid progress. The General Election somewhat interrupted the preparations of the local secretaries, but the excitement being now over, general attention in the locality is again centred on the coming visit of the Association, and great efforts are being made in the town and neighbourhood to ensure the success of the meeting. The chief public buildings in the town are just emerging from the hands of the painter and decorator. The reception room will be located in the Town Hall, the council chamber being the room actually set apart for the purpose, whilst the library will be the writing room. The President's address and the evening discourses will be delivered in the public hall, as will also the lecture to working men. In the matter of Section rooms, the Local Committee will be able to offer the Association very good accommodation, as there are fortunately a number of suitable rooms and halls in the town within a very short distance of each other, and all are close to the reception room. The two halls at the Girls' High School, which were formerly the New Assembly Rooms, and were used for the reception room and for Section E on the occasion of the Ipswich meeting in 1851, will be allotted to Section A (Mathematical and Physical Science) and Section B (Chemistry). About two hundred yards distant is the Co-operative Hall, in which Section G (Mechanical Science) will meet. Section C (Geology) will be accommodated in the Art Gallery adjoining the Museum. Section D (Zoology) and the new Section K (Botany) will have, respectively, the banquet room and the lodge room at the Masonic Hall. The Lecture Hall, adjoining the Ipswich Institute, will be given over to Section E (Geography), whilst across the street, the Working Men's College (formerly known as the Old Assembly Rooms) will be set apart for Section H (Anthropology).

The British Association

Wednesday Night. THE meeting of the British Association which opens to-night, after twenty-four years' absence, in Bath, will be the fifty-eighth. At the meeting of 1864, the President was Sir Charles Lyell, and the occasion was rendered memorable by the presence at once of Dr. Livingstone and Bishop Colenso, both at the time filling a large space in the public eye. Though a vast majority of the members of the Association would prefer to visit Bath to either Birmingham or Manchester, the latter towns possess in Owens College and the Town Hall buildings which offer greater conveniences for the meeting of a scientific Congress. In Bath the Sections will be somewhat scattered. The Physical Science Section meets at the St. James's Hall; the Mechanical Section in the Masonic Hall; the Chemical Section in the Friends' Meeting-House; Geology and Biology are housed at the Mineral Water Hospital, with the Blue Coat School for sub-sections; Geography at the Guildhall, and Anthropology at the Grammar School; while the President's address and some of the popular lectures, as well as the concluding general meeting, will be delivered at the Drill Hall. The Mayor gives a conversazione to-morrow in the Assembly Rooms, and the Chairman and Local Committee give another on Tuesday. A large number of foreign visitors, especially geologists for the International Geological Congress to be held in London on the iyth inst, are expected. Amongst those already arrived are Prince Roland Bonaparte; Profs. Dufont, Gilbert, Capellini, Stephenson, Lory, von Koenen, Frazer, Kalkowsky, and Waagen.