— Histoire de France (@HistoiredeFran7) July 14, 2025 On Bastille Day, I have to say I really think that the French Revolution unleashed far more evil and horror on the world than it purported to solve due to class inequalities. pic.twitter.com/QVm3g0lICT — Don Shift (buy my books) (@DonShift3) July 14, 2025 ✨ Révision de la norme ISO 9001 : Saint-Denis, centre des échanges internationaux ! Nous avons eu le privilège d’accueillir dans les locaux d’AFNOR 45 experts venus des cinq continents pour coécrire la future version de la norme ISO 9001. pic.twitter.com/vyMBoMFHBX — AFNOR (@AFNOR) April 8, 2025 Chronicle of Higher Education: The Campus Cold War — Faculty vs. Administrators Innovation – Standardization – Commoditization run along a continuum. Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten (and prohibit) leading practice discovery; how quickly goods and services become a “human right”; why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth. From the Wikipedia In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer’s point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest. Related: Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating After months of hard work, the top five teams met at USPTO headquarters today for the final round of the 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition. 🏆 And the winners are … ⬇️ 🥇 First place — @UofMNLawSchool pic.twitter.com/uwNSJR0oBy — USPTO (@uspto) April 4, 2025 From creating a race car safety device that protects drivers from injury to revolutionizing chemotherapy, Spartans have contributed to more than 3,300 inventions. #SpartansWill pic.twitter.com/dchCs0BFBx — MSU (@michiganstateu) February 21, 2025 For 58 years, 7-Eleven has been protecting its iconic semi-frozen soft drink, the Slurpee. But it doesn’t stop there. The store has more than 200 registered trademarks to protect its goods and services, including “Oh thank Heaven for 7-Eleven" in 1978 and “Brainfreeze” in 1993. pic.twitter.com/b9bkkcijGg — USPTO (@uspto) July 11, 2025 One hour overview of NEMA, SAE, IEEE, NFPA, UL and ICC public input and comment on safety and sustainability standards for electric vehicle charging stations. As usual, our focus is on marking up consensus documents, signing them and submitting them to the appropriate technical committee so that you may receive a formal response. https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/ https://standardsmichigan.com/ibc-education-facility-assembly-spaces/ “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From “The Gulag Archipelago”) Today we explain our collaboration with other education settlements in the US and other nations. We conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups to the International Organization for Standardization but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union who conform to the participation requirements of their own national standards bodies. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Because a great deal of content is copyright protected by the International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and International Telecommunications Union, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda. https://standardsmichigan.com/international-standards-teleconference-today-11-am-eastern/ 17 equations that changed the world pic.twitter.com/69jV97p8mM — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 21, 2024 https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-309/ https://standardsmichigan.com/iec-2021/ https://standardsmichigan.com/itu-academia/ d https://standardsmichigan.com/time-frequency-services/ d https://standardsmichigan.com/readability-of-design-standards/ v Congratulations to the newest members of the ULS ACT 30+ Society. Each of the students pictured earned a composite score of at least 30 on the ACT! 🔗: https://t.co/oPluA13MuQ pic.twitter.com/O7LIATCZfs — University Laboratory School (@LSULabSchool) October 21, 2024 The ULS Kids Heart Challenge (K-4) and the American Heart Challenge (5-8) have officially kicked off! Our school is proud to support the American Heart Association and help kids with special hearts! Register today to participate. https://t.co/3N9M24IxlT pic.twitter.com/zTpgSQ7SOe — University Laboratory School (@LSULabSchool) January 29, 2021![]()
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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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