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"Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ('Nature' 1841)
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Evensong “Lullabye (Goodnight, my angel)”
Performed by Leicester University Chamber Choir conducted by John Gull. Recorded live at St Clement's Church, Prague, Czech Republic on 13th June 2019.
Reflections / John Nash
Gregory A. Burton speaks about John Nash's influence, including the 1950 paper "Non-Cooperative Games" which inspired entirely new fields of inquiry for which Nash won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Sacred Spaces
In many educational settlements, chapels and churches were built first -- even before libraries and classrooms -- a home for christenings, weddings, graduations and solemnization. Chapels remain a gathering place for communal reflection upon the meaning of our longing.
What is Happening to the Family, and Why?
"The family is nature's masterpiece" -- George Santayana
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land (sometimes invisibly) in public law. We explore the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Cultural Resource Properties
Education communities are stewards of cultural assets that are, by definition, priceless; and whose safety features are cut from a "fabric" of about twenty best practice catalogs. Fire safety is a top-most risk to manage and one with heartbreaking results when it fails; as in Paris on April 15, 2019. The 2025 release of NFPA 909 is the current edition. Public input on the 2029 edition will be received until January 6, 2027.
Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries
Pairing young people with a lifetime bond may be the most enduring reason for educational settlements to exist; and one that has received subtle disregard by higher education administrators and marketers of the "college experience".
Current Issues and Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026). We have one electrical proposal on the agenda of the International Code Council's Committee Action Hearings in Cleveland October 22-30. We begin coverage of satellite-based internet service to community colleges.
Sport News
“Man’s life is brief, but through contests he touches the eternal.” -- Pindar, 'Nemean Ode 6.23-24'