Calendar

July 1, 1993

mike@standardsmichigan.com

“And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Anglo-American University Prague

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale | Jackson County
Playlist: Monster Mash
All day
2026.10.30
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus 1888| Mrs. Shelly. George Routledge and Sons
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xxZY5C9xxij3D1HkzbnfC?si=0c583cd961504098
https://youtu.be/_DfW654p5O0?si=QbWTW3tv8dJGMKDg
https://youtu.be/6_tif-OZpuk
- “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
- “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” (Chapter 8 – Creature)
- “Learn from me… how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.” (Letter 4 – Walton)
- “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” (Chapter 17 – Creature)
- “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
- “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
- “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
- “Man, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” (Chapter 23 – Victor)
- “Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition.” (Chapter 24 – Victor)
- I am malicious because I am miserable.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
- “My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
- “All men hate the wretched.” (Chapter 10 – Creature)
- “You are my creator, but I am your master.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
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“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic pic.twitter.com/V1RnJOpk8J
— 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶 (@classicspilled) October 27, 2025
Colloquy (October)
11:00 -12:00
2026.10.30

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HAM operators are priceless during a disaster. Listen! pic.twitter.com/pQDv1K29ID
— Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 (@catsscareme2021) October 6, 2024
Senior #hoco2025 💜 pic.twitter.com/grlzcSK7Tr
— Sloane Phillips (@SloaneJPhillips) October 13, 2025
Last night my twins had their first Homecoming dance. While we were taking photos with each of their lovely dates, I squeezed these in.
I would also like to once again say that I am 3 entire SDs above the average height for American women, you just can’t tell in family pics. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/1WWpAEpvYF
— Stacy Mitchell, DO (@stacybmitchell) October 12, 2025
hot conservative girls will save america https://t.co/tdBadNFSZt pic.twitter.com/BjsUlVJe9I
— 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶 (@classicspilled) October 12, 2025
Hello from my solo adventure in Venice pic.twitter.com/D5LrnkECor
— Juliet Turner (@juliet_turner6) October 12, 2025

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On 9/11 the FDNY lost 343 of their own.

Not statistics. Sons, fathers, husbands from 75 firehouses across the five boroughs.
121 engine companies and 62 ladder companies answered the call. Every Rescue company in New York went in.
They knew the buildings were coming down and… pic.twitter.com/e4ArBUmfLq

— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) September 7, 2026

Scales Mound School District | Jo Daviess County Illinois 815

Oxford students after exams, 1989. pic.twitter.com/HQbO4r6dUE

— M (@0detobeauty) May 27, 2026

Standards Michigan | Time

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)