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from pdf New College News 2002
text.new.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/alumni_nc_news_nov2002.pdf

"The Hall was last tackled on this scale
when Sir Gilbert Scott put in the new roof in 1858, though a good deal
of restoration was done by Champneys in the early 1900s and more
again in the 1920s.
Myths have long accreted about the Hall. No matter how often the story
is denied, newspapers and radio journalists still insist on believing that
Scott used oak beams from trees that had been planted for the purpose
almost five hundred years before. Since most structural oak was cut from
trees of about a hundred and fifty years old, it would have been unlikely
that anyone would plant it for use in five hundred years. Happily, on this
occasion we have not needed to re-roof on such a scale, although there
were some initial fears that the lantern was unsound and insecure as well"

September 25, 2007
The oak beams of New College, Oxford
Filed under: Culture, Planning — tomwfox @ 8:33 am

by Gregory Bateson
Reprinted in The Next Whole Earth Catalog, 1980

“New College, Oxford, is of rather late foundation, hence the name. It was probably founded around the late 16th century. It has, like other colleges, a great dining hall with big oak beams across the top. These might be eighteen inched square, and twenty feet long.

“Some five to ten years ago, so I am told, a busy entomologist went up into the roof of the dining hall with a penknife and poked at the beams, and found that they were full of beetles. This was reported to the College Council, who met in some dismay, because where would they get beams of that caliber nowadays?

“One of the Junior Fellows stuck his neck out and suggested that there might be on College lands some oak. These colleges are endowed with pieces of land scattered across the country. So they called the College Forester, who of course had not been near the college itself for some years, and asked him about oaks.

“And he pulled his forelock and said, “Well sirs, we was wondering when you’d be askin’.”

“Upon further inquiry it was discovered that when the College was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the dining hall when they became beetly, because oak beams always become beetly in the end. This plan had been passed down from one Forester to the next for four hundred years. “You don’t cut them oaks. Them’s for the College Hall.”

“A nice story. That’s the way to run a culture.”

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MEASURING INFANTILIZATION IN TEENS

Since you were thirteen years old, have adults regularly or routinely restricted your activities in any of the following ways?

1. Sent you to your room?
2. Listened in on your phone calls?
3. Restricted your phone use?
4. Cut off your allowance?
5. Restricted your driving privileges?
6. Confiscated your personal property?
7. Grounded you?
8. Searched your room without your permission?
9. Violated your privacy?
10. Restricted your use of the Internet?
11. Restricted your television use?
12. Restricted your use of videos or CDs?
13. Prevented you from getting a tattoo or piercing?
14. Prohibited you from changing your hairstyle?
15. Restricted the way you can dress?
16. Prohibited you from associating with certain friends?
17. Spanked, paddled, or hit you?
18. Prohibited your friends from coming over?
19. Prohibited you from attending a dance, party, or club?
20. Prevented you from drinking alcohol?
21. Prevented you from smoking cigarettes?
22. Forced you to take medication?
23. Forced you to participate in a meal or social event?
24. Forced you to attend a summer camp or go on vacation?
25. Given you a time out?
26. Required you to take a shower or bath?
27. Restricted your sexual activity?
28. Tried to silence you?
29. Given you a curfew?
30. Required you to go to bed at a certain time?
31. Restricted your dating activities?
32. Forced you to attend school?
33. Required you to get certain grades?
34. Required you to get a job?
35. Forced you into psychotherapy?
36. Forced you to undergo medical treatment?
37. Forced you to go to church or synagogue?
38. Forced you to exercise or play sports?
39. Forced you play a musical instrument?
40. Required you to take dance or participate in other extracurricular activities?
41. Required you to take certain courses in school?
42. Restrained you physically or restricted your movements?

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