Kohler School District | Sheboygan County Wisconsin
Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1963 In the United Kingdom, Mother’s Day, often called Mothering Sunday, is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is tied to the Christian calendar rather than a fixed date like in the US. For 2025, Easter Sunday is on April 20, and Lent begins 40 days earlier (excluding Sundays), placing the start of Lent around March 5. Counting forward, the fourth Sunday of Lent will be March 30. So, Mothering Sunday in the UK in 2025 will fall on March 30. It’s a day with historical roots in the church, originally about returning to one’s “mother” church, but now it’s a time to celebrate moms with flowers, cards, and family gatherings. Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1963 In the United Kingdom, Mother’s Day, often called Mothering Sunday, is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is tied to the Christian calendar rather than a fixed date like in the US. For 2025, Easter Sunday is on April 20, and Lent begins 40 days earlier (excluding Sundays), placing the start of Lent around March 5. Counting forward, the fourth Sunday of Lent will be March 30. So, Mothering Sunday in the UK in 2025 will fall on March 30. It’s a day with historical roots in the church, originally about returning to one’s “mother” church, but now it’s a time to celebrate moms with flowers, cards, and family gatherings. Reflection on the degree to which large research universities are Non-Government Organizations (Quangos, in the United Kingdom) or Hedge Funds with a side operation in education. “Mack the Knife” (original German title: “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer”) seems like a jaunty swing tune, especially in Louis Armstrong’s or Bobby Darin’s famous versions, but its lyrics are actually about a charming, elegant, and utterly ruthless gangster/criminal named Macheath (“Mack the Knife”) from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper). This popular jazz standard disguises the cynical statement about how money, greed, corruption, robbery, and murder are intertwined — and how the biggest crooks wear suits and are celebrated instead of punished. University endowments are comprised of money or other financial assets that are donated to academic institutions. Charitable donations are the primary source of funds for endowments. Endowment funds support the teaching, research, and public service missions of colleges and universities. In the case of endowment funds for academic institutions, the income generated is intended to finance a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution. Today we will pick through few reports where safety and sustainability claims are listed and described. https://standardsmichigan.com/schenkingen/ Have a word that’s overstayed its welcome? It’s time to banish it! 🗣️❌ 📝 Visit LSSU’s Banished Words entry form to submit a word for consideration: https://t.co/8lKrhomzFq #banishedwordslist #LSSU #traditions #2025 pic.twitter.com/hUkhhGIkYV — LSSU (@LifeatLSSU) October 25, 2024 I kwestion this decision and reject it.#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #AcademicX #AprilFoolDay https://t.co/U472YpF3zO — Reviewer 2 (@GrumpyReviewer2) April 1, 2025 8th March 2014 — A Cambridge Diary (@acambridgediary) March 8, 2025 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/tXKRTbixRB — Coach J (@coachj4592) March 8, 2025 https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-april-fools-day-pranks-2022/ “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” https://standardsmichigan.com/occupancy-classification-use/ https://twitter.com/evantwedt/status/1676929207119806464?s=20 General Conditions of the Construction Contract https://standardsmichigan.com/conditions-of-contract-for-building-and-civil-engineering-construction/ “…On that train all graphite and glitter What a beautiful world this will be Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium Wählen ab 16: Jugendliche in Freiburg befragen Europawahl-Kandidaten 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 Friday folks! Spring is springing and the tulips are blooming. Have a lovely weekend. #FridayFeeling #Tulips #weekend #Spring #April pic.twitter.com/vWbUZ8ahqq — Kate Garner (@KateGarnerMusic) April 4, 2025 https://standardsmichigan.com/hash-bash/ https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-april-fools-day-pranks-2022/ The connection between Deacon Blues by Steely Dan and Wake Forest University comes from a lyric in the song that references the university’s sports team. In Deacon Blues, there’s a line that goes: “They got a name for the winners in the world / I want a name when I lose / They call Alabama the Crimson Tide / Call me Deacon Blues.” Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the core members of Steely Dan, explained in interviews that the “Deacon Blues” name was inspired by Wake Forest University’s football team, the Demon Deacons. At the time, Wake Forest’s football program was not particularly successful, and Becker and Fagen thought “Deacon Blues” sounded like the perfect name for a poetic, down-on-his-luck character who embraces failure with style. The song plays with the contrast between Alabama’s powerhouse football team (the Crimson Tide) and the struggling Wake Forest Demon Deacons, using it as a metaphor for a romanticized version of an underdog’s life.
Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday
"Mack the Knife" Columbia University Uptown Vocal
Schenkingen
Fool's Day
Balloons are hard to ignore.
From my book ‘Cambridge – Town & Gown’ available at https://t.co/8I1DoF7Kzw and all bookshops pic.twitter.com/cY9LUeN0uh
Occupancy Classification & Use
General Conditions of the Construction Contract
"I.G.Y" Jazzhaus Jugendorchester & Junior Jazzchor
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(more leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a glorious time to be free…
Lively 200
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Ann Arbor Hash Bash 2025
Wake Forest University "Deacon Blues"
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“Couple near Booksellers” – Bernard Boutet de Monvel, French (1881 – 1949)
Scales Mound School District | Jo Daviess County Illinois 815
Oxford students after exams, 1989. pic.twitter.com/HQbO4r6dUE
— M (@0detobeauty) May 27, 2026
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)
We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.
at a conference where you don’t have to present
— Peyman Milanfar (@docmilanfar) April 4, 2025
#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
Academics be like 👇 pic.twitter.com/6cpVEw3PVS
— Reviewer 2 (@GrumpyReviewer2) April 2, 2024
