“One is dreadfully vulnerable through those one loves.”
– C.P. Snow (The Masters, 1951)
Faith Baptist Bible College | Polk County Iowa
Emory University BSR/ASHRAE Addendum br to BSR/ASHRAE Standard 135-201x, BACnet – A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks (addenda to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2016) This addendum adds new engineering units, a new mandate to accept writes of NULL to non-commandable properties, and intrinsic fault reporting to Lighting Output object type; deprecates Time form of timestamps; clarifies the Multi-state object types when Number_Of_States shrinks; fixes the language for event type and message text parameters of event notifications; clarifies the object instance 4194303; extends the ReadPropertyMultiple service to support the Network Port wildcard instance treatment; and clarifies the timestamp of trend log and trend log multiple log records. Click here to view these changes in full: Page 33+ Send comments (with copy to psa@ansi.org) to: http://www.ashrae.org/standards-research–technology/public-review-drafts Online meeting for education facility managers to review of pipeline of fire safety proposals in US and international standards. We will also walk through the expanding constellation of school security standards.
ASHRAE 135 Comments Due
Fire Protection & Security
Scales Mound School District | Jo Daviess County Illinois 815
The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically. Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.
In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles. In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.
Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.
Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.
The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.
Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society. (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)
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