September 2nd, 2008 by
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Hawthorne Boulevard was named after Dr. J.C. Hawthorne, the cofounder of Oregon’s first mental hospital. The road was originally named Asylum Avenue. In October of 1883, 372 patients were transferred from the Hawthorne Asylum to the new Oregon State Insane Asylum (OSIA) in Salem. At this time the hospital had a 412 patient capacity. The original Oregon State Hospital (Hawthorne Asylum) for the Insane was established in what was then East Portland, Oregon, (now the Hawthorne District). It was built in 1862, and the street on which it was built was renamed Asylum Street. Local residents protested about the name, however, and it was renamed Hawthorne after the hospital’s founder in 1888. The street on which the current hospital is located, Center Street, was also originally named Asylum Avenue. The street was renamed in honor of Dr. Hawthorne. The change from the “distasteful” name was at the behest of the local residents.
Dr. J.C. Hawthorne
In 1857, Dr. Hawthorne moved to
Portland, where he was well received by the medical community, and soon acquired a large private practice. In 1858, he took charge of the county hospital under a contract from
Multnomah County, subsequently establishing a private hospital for the insane.
[1] The hospital was so successful that the state government, during
Governor Whitaker’s term in 1862, made a contract with him to assume the care of the insane of Oregon. Assisted by Dr. A. M. Loryea, this grew into Oregon Hospital for the Insane.
[1] This contract was from time to time renewed by the
State Legislature, and until his death Hawthorne had charge as Superintendent and Physician of the unfortunate wards of the state, which at the time of his death numbered some 500 inmates.
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Dr. Hawthorne was known for his kindness toward his patients and his devotion to his work. During the twenty-one years that he had charge of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane, it became widely known and was regarded as one of the best institutions of its kind in the United States. Though Dr. Hawthorne was highly proficient in every department of his profession, he will always be most highly honored by the record he made as authority upon diseases of the mind. He gained national renown in the treatment of insanity, and the curative rate of his institution was considered equal to that of any similar establishment in the United States.
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August 27th, 2008 by
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“There is a little mystic clock,
No human eye hath seen;
That beateth on- and beateth on,
From morning until e’en….”
“It increases and decreases,
And no-one sees it.
It is not a fire,
And yet it can be quenched.”
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August 25th, 2008 by
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There was a girl in our town,
Silk an’ satin was her gown.
Silk an’ satin, gold an’ velvet,
Guess her name, three times I’ve telled it.
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Two bodies have I,
Though both joined in one.
The stiller I stand,
The faster I run.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.
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Red and blue, purple and green,
No one can reach it,
Not even a queen.
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Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye,
And a long tail which she let fly;
And every time she went over a gap,
She left a bit of her tail in a trap.
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Make three fourths of a cross,
And a circle complete;
And let two semicircles
On a perpendicular meet;
Next add a triangle
That stands on two feet;
Next two semicircles,
And a circle complete.
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Little Nanny Etticoat,
In a white petticoat,
And a red nose;
The longer she stands,
The shorter she grows.
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Formed long ago, yet made to-day,
Employed while others sleep;
What few would like to give away,
Nor any wish to keep.
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August 19th, 2008 by
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Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life
As three blind mice.
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August 5th, 2008 by
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The classification of the qualities of objects by degree - heat and cold, moisture and dryness etc. - was commonplace in the middle ages.
Shakespeare went on to apply the degree classification to drink, in Twelfth Night, 1601:
“For he s in the third degree of drinke: hee’s drown’d: go looke after him.”
The present meaning involves more than classification though. ‘The third degree’ is well-known to all US crime-fiction enthusiasts as ‘an intensive, possibly brutal, interrogation’.
In Masonic lodges there are three degrees of membership; the first is called Entered Apprentice, the second Fellowcraft, and the third is master mason. When a candidate receives the third degree in a Masonic lodge, he is subjected to some activities that involve an interrogation and it is more physically challenging than the first two degrees. It is this interrogation that was the source of the name of the US police force’s interrogation technique.
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July 21st, 2008 by
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Three grey geese in a green field grazing,
Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.
Three grey geese grazing on green grass.
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July 12th, 2008 by
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Rub a dub dub,
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick maker.
Turn them out, knaves all three!
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