Black River Public School | Kent County Michigan
“Rondel” 1892 / Louise Howland King Cox Co-Founders daughter, also Standards Michigan manager of Legal Affairs This photo is strikingly simple. Almost every shirt/top is light and all pants /shorts are dark. Almost no writing on anything. Just incredibly simple. pic.twitter.com/N1m4uYBWbd — O.W. Root (@NecktieSalvage) February 26, 2025 https://standardsmichigan.com/high-voltage-electric-services/ I taught these boys (grown men!) when they were just 6 and now they are graduating from college 😮 pic.twitter.com/eNmVf6HiXy — Sarah Oberle (@S_Oberle) May 21, 2024 Periodic review of the best practice catalogs that set the standard of care for security of education communities. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda. Sixteen Dogs Cozying Up Next to the Fireplace Status check on the catalog of best practice titles covering the management of education community snow and ice management during the coldest months in the Northern Hemisphere. https://standardsmichigan.com/snow-ice/ Ilisimatusarfik | University of Greenlandhttps://t.co/7bqLFzinAMhttps://t.co/WuWVtTcahB — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) February 27, 2025 The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (MCSI) is released twice a month: Both reports are published at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (ET). Consumer sentiment down amid disagreements on new government policies Consumer sentiment fell for the first time in six months, edging down 4% from December. While assessments of personal finances inched up for the fifth consecutive month, both the short- and long-run business… pic.twitter.com/r2mPTc5XiO — Michigan News (@UMichiganNews) January 24, 2025 https://youtu.be/D0xSuqKoByQ?si=-pawPMfA1bnY3-FM https://youtu.be/GxbKuek88NQ?si=v249UC4EAG2qJXlh https://youtu.be/JkQauI15hlE?si=uAm42E0eGtSCtJPH “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” “The Banjo Lesson” 1893 | Henry Ossawa Tanner This is a simply delightful sketch animation of a ballet dancer. I was trying to get some different effects and style effects than usual. (Prompt in following tweets.) — Jason Baldridge (@jasonbaldridge) January 17, 2025 “Actors from the Commedia dell’Arte on a Wagon in a Town Square” 1640 Jan Miel A walk through the status of best practice literature that sets the standard of care for safety and sustainability in the education facilities built for the performance arts. Readings: The Seven Lively Arts (1924) Glibert Seldes (Oxford Academic review) https://twitter.com/RoyalBalletSch/status/1651974785490878464?s=20 Happy St David’s Day! 🏴What a great Welsh week we’ve had! Tasting Welsh foods inc laverbread! (Mixed reviews!😝🤢🤣) and making Welsh rarebit 🧀🍞#learningthroughexperiences #dygpllc #dygpsci&tech pic.twitter.com/ZWRABR49an — Danygraig School (@DanygraigP) March 1, 2024 🏴 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! — Swansea University (@SwanseaUni) March 1, 2024 ⚠️The way you access our libraries (Bute, Science, Health, Trevithick) outside of core hours has changed @cardiffstudents @cardiffuni ⚠️ You will need to have your ID card updated with us. All the details: https://t.co/6Yp5xLiZZJ pic.twitter.com/P7hZEJwDuV — Cardiff University Libraries (@cardiffunilib) February 28, 2024
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“Off the Greenland Coast under the Midnight Sun” 1873 |William J Bradfordhttps://t.co/3OsdWPoAdJ
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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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