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Since 2019, the @ncccoffeelab has allowed students to experiment with high-end coffee equipment, including a professional-grade roaster, while exploring their academic interests through the lens of #coffee production.
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Newman University hosts its Heritage Month in February to celebrates the English heritage of the university’s namesake, St. John Henry Newman. It typically takes place in the Dugan-Gorges Conference Center following the St. Newman Mass and features meticulously prepared finger foods, English breakfast or Earl Grey tea, and elegant tea sets, fostering a sense of community among students, alumni, faculty, and staff.
Thank you to our amazing chorale and troubadours for last night’s Pilgrims of Hope fall concert! 🎹 It was a beauty to behold.#NUExcellence #NewmanU #fall #concert pic.twitter.com/ij1GkQkYli
— Newman University (@NewmanU) November 24, 2025
Why and How High Tea Originated as a Working-Class Custom: High tea, despite its modern association with elegance and afternoon tea, began as a practical, working-class custom in 19th-century Britain. Its origins lie in the Industrial Revolution, when factory workers, miners, and laborers, typically from the lower classes, returned home after long, physically demanding shifts. Unlike the leisurely afternoon tea enjoyed by the upper classes, high tea was a hearty, substantial meal served around 5–7 p.m., designed to sustain workers after a grueling day.
Why It Was Working-Class:Timing and Necessity: Workers couldn’t afford mid-afternoon breaks for tea, as their schedules revolved around factory or manual labor. High tea was served after work hours, replacing or supplementing dinner with affordable, filling foods like meat pies, bread, cheese, and tea, which provided energy and comfort.
Economic Constraints: The working class lacked the resources for the delicate sandwiches and pastries of upper-class afternoon tea. High tea used simple, inexpensive ingredients, reflecting the economic realities of laborers.
Cultural Context: Tea was a cheap, widely available beverage by the 19th century, thanks to Britain’s colonial trade. It became a staple for workers, offering warmth and stimulation, while the meal addressed their hunger.
How It Developed: High tea was served at a high dining table (unlike the low tables of aristocratic tea settings), where families gathered for a practical meal. The term “high” referred to the table height, distinguishing it from the refined “low tea” of the elite.
Food and Function:
The meal included robust dishes like stews, cold meats, or potatoes, paired with strong tea. It was less about social ritual and more about nourishment, often the main meal of the day for working families.
Social Evolution:
As tea became a British cultural staple, high tea spread across classes, but its working-class roots remained evident in its heartier fare and evening timing, contrasting with the lighter, earlier afternoon tea of the wealthy.
By the late 19th century, high tea’s association with the working class faded as middle and upper classes adopted and refined it, leading to its modern, more elegant connotations.
Afternoon tea this weekend pic.twitter.com/2UAZkGUXOj
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Da 100 anni, un mondo fatto bene
The Politecnico di Milano, Italy’s largest technical university, was founded on November 29, 1863, by mathematician and politician Francesco Brioschi. Modeled after German and Swiss polytechnics, it started as the Istituto Tecnico Superiore to drive Italy’s scientific, technological, and industrial development following national unification. It initially focused on civil and industrial engineering, with architecture added in 1865 in partnership with the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
Originally located in the historic Collegio Elvetico, the university relocated in 1927 to its present main campus in the Città Studi district, despite setbacks from World War I. It was renamed Regio Politecnico di Milano in 1937 and removed the “Regio” designation after World War II.
Enrollment boomed in the postwar era, leading to new programs in nuclear engineering, electronics, aeronautics, and design. Notable alumni include Nobel laureate Giulio Natta and architect Renzo Piano. Today, with more than 47,000 students across several campuses, Politecnico di Milano ranks among Europe’s leading institutions in engineering, architecture, and design.
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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the European Researchers’ Night, researchers from Polimi shared their work and findings.#MMT25 #meetmetonight #EuropeanResearchersNight pic.twitter.com/OJfCUnbSUp
— Politecnico di Milano (@polimi) September 29, 2025
“Indians Playing Lacrosse on the Ice” 1934 Yale University Art Gallery
The literature for designing, building and maintaining sport and recreation related spaces in education settlements cuts across so many safety and sustainability risk aggregations that, starting 2024, we begin breaking up the topic according to four seasons; mindful that not all seasons are present in all settlements at all times of the year and in different age groups.
Volleyball at the high school level in the USA is a winter sport but a fall sport at the collegiate level. Rifle and Fencing is only a collegiate sport. Swimming “short course” (25 meter) competition is a winter sport depending upon regional facilities. (e.g. University of Southern California, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of Michigan)
Join us today when we sort through the literature and any live public consultations on proposed changes to the most frequently referenced titles.
Hockey
Figure Skating
Rifle
Recreation
Swimming
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“…Hot cocoa and hot chocolate are terms that we often used interchangeably. Technically, hot cocoa and hot chocolate are as different as milk chocolate and bittersweet chocolate. Hot cocoa is made with cocoa powder, the way my mother made it when I was a kid. Hot chocolate is made from melting chocolate bars into cream…”
Plant science at your dinner table: Hot chocolate vs. hot cocoa
Black coffee at restaurants should not be $5. I’m not drinking the whole pot. I just want a cup. pic.twitter.com/wxy5xO4srV
— Blonde Musings 🇺🇸 Courtney (@musings_blonde) February 1, 2026
You’ve never heard the fight song like this.
MSU College of Music students, faculty and alumni picked up classroom instruments and turned them into something unforgettable.
No sheet music. No rehearsal. Just serious music skills and some Spartans Will. pic.twitter.com/a1yPaLXLDQ
— MSU (@michiganstateu) July 31, 2025
The clarity of this first hour—the pensive hope of winter—the ritual morning brings. These are the things. pic.twitter.com/CwdExLn5gC
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A few moments from Baccalaureate and the Senior Celebration Barbecue. #Smith2023 Jim Gipe for Smith College. https://t.co/vu5yM5AIoR pic.twitter.com/2vqRj5tU5n
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"My Funny Valentine" (1937 R. Rodgers & L. Hart)
Milwaukee High School of the Arts Vocal Jazz Ensemble https://t.co/aDiuk4Q7bihttps://t.co/ne2YlNBAxFhttps://t.co/I6wLEM8O2e pic.twitter.com/MLUl5Tpdzh— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) February 15, 2026
Public Input on the 2029 Edition will be received until January 6, 2027
MSU's relationship with @Pewabic dates back to the 1920s, when Pewabic tile began to appear throughout campus.
Years later, MSU absorbed Pewabic for a short period of time as they transitioned from a production pottery to an educational facility to help ensure their future. pic.twitter.com/SsebtJOjlx
— MSU (@michiganstateu) February 27, 2026
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an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen”
Not every student is passionate about Graph Algorithms, Green Policy or coding the Internet of Things but wants to devote their energy and talent to making the world a better place by making the world a more beautiful place. Spaces for the “creatives” among them are elevated risk spaces. Today we examine the literature for designing, building and maintaining these occupancies in the safest and most sustainable way; among them the spaces for textile research and fashion design; usually co-mingled with drawing, painting, and textile creation space.
The garment industry is multi-disciplinary and is larger than the energy industry. It contributes to the standard for civilization; even though subtly so. For this reason, starting 2023, we will break down our coverage of the literature that supports the fashion industry from the fine arts domain in separate colloquia every quarter.
Fine Arts 200. Exploration of best practice for spaces used for various forms of creative expression that are appreciated for their artistic or aesthetic value, often involving skills and techniques that require specialized training and expertise.
Fashion 300. Best practice literature for the spaces needed for the creation of artworks using textiles and fibers, such as weaving, quilting, or embroidery. Research and teaching spaces in this domain; at the foundation of the garment industry — one of the largest sectors in the economy in any nation — present surprising challenges
See our CALENDAR for a schedule of those session.
US-based standards developers with a footprint in the fine arts domain:
Committee D13 on Textiles Celebrates a Century
2021 International Building Code: Section 305 Educational Group E
Underwriters Laboratories
Lorem ipsum (product testing: kiln heat specifications, fabric and paint flammability, wet and dry fire extinguishing systems, etc.)
National Fire Protection Association
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Leveraging User-Provided Noisy Labels for Fashion Understanding
Institutional Guidelines
Federal Regulations & Recommendations
Environmental Health and Safety in the Arts Guide for K-12 School, Colleges and Artisans
Global standard developers: (partial list)
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