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Spring / Summer ’26 Geothermal Energy Project

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A beautiful summer view over Paradise Pond!
Photo by Jessica Scranton pic.twitter.com/puJkVdAUHq

— Smith College (@smithcollege) July 13, 2024

One explanation for America’s low fertility rate is that some private women’s colleges place relatively little institutional emphasis on social environments that encourage long-term relationships leading to marriage and family formation.

Advocates of this view argue that these colleges often prioritize academic achievement, leadership development, professional careers, and personal independence over traditional courtship opportunities. They contend that limited interaction with male students, fewer campus traditions centered on mixed-gender social life, and cultural norms that delay marriage may reduce the likelihood of graduates forming families during their twenties. According to this perspective, colleges could contribute more to demographic renewal by fostering healthy, voluntary opportunities for students to meet compatible partners while respecting individual choice.

Critics, however, argue that fertility trends are shaped far more by broader economic conditions, housing costs, career pressures, cultural change, and personal preferences than by the educational environment of women’s colleges alone.

Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models

https://thebrandhopper.com/2020/11/13/marketing-concept-diffusion-of-innovation/

In the early stages of a new technology, innovation is fluid, experimental, and highly uncertain. Multiple competing designs, architectures, and approaches coexist as inventors, startups, and firms explore possibilities. Without established standards, there is no dominant design—products vary widely in features, interfaces, and performance. This “pre-standard” or “ferment” phase fuels rapid, radical innovation. Engineers iterate quickly, creativity thrives, and breakthroughs emerge through trial-and-error.

However, fragmentation creates compatibility issues, high risk for adopters, and market confusion. Investment is speculative, and many early solutions eventually fail. Only after a dominant design or technical standard wins (through market forces, regulation, or consensus) does the industry stabilize. Innovation then shifts from product architecture to incremental improvements, manufacturing efficiency, and complementary services. The early chaotic period, though messy, is essential—it determines which technologies shape the future.

Today we sort through the literature on the stabilization of American English as the de-facto “Language of the Internet” and the Artificial Intelligence zietgeist

Readings: Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models

Relata:

Electropedia: The World’s Online Electrotechnical Vocabulary

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English Fry Up

2028: Multipurpose Athletic Facility (Nameplate cost $350M)

“Book of Household Management” Isabella Beeton’s 1861

The Full English Breakfast, or “fry-up,” originated in the Victorian era (1830s–1900s) as a hearty meal for the rural gentry and emerging industrial working class in Britain. It combined affordable, energy-dense ingredients—butter-fried eggs, back bacon, sausages, fried bread, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, and black pudding—designed to fuel long days of manual labor or fox-hunting. By the Edwardian period it had become a symbol of British identity and was served in hotels and boarding houses to travelers.

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In the United States, the fry-up arrived on college campuses primarily after World War II via two routes: British faculty and students at elite universities (Oxford-Cambridge exchanges, Rhodes Scholars) and the 1960s–70s “British Invasion” cultural wave. Dining halls at places like Yale, Harvard, and certain Ivy League-adjacent schools began offering weekend “English breakfasts” as novelty brunches. The tradition stuck hardest at boarding schools and liberal-arts colleges with strong Anglophile traditions (e.g., Choate, St. Paul’s, Middlebury, Kenyon).

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By the 1980s–90s, beans on toast and proper rashers of back bacon became hangover cures at off-campus houses, cementing the fry-up as a once-a-semester ritual rather than daily fare.

English Breakfast for Each Day of the Week

Standards Massachusetts | Planning, Real Estate, and Facilities

Thankful for the misters during summer 2 move-out 🔥 💦 pic.twitter.com/bKgWE7qVnJ

— Northeastern U. (@Northeastern) August 13, 2025

Incredible snow removal

Relata:

[SCRIBD] Y6 Breakfast Food Technology Workbook

Rogers Building

The earliest installation of a passenger elevator in a university building in the United States was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In 1861, Otis Brothers & Co., the company founded by Elisha Graves Otis, installed the first passenger elevator in this three-story structure that housed laboratories, classrooms, and offices for faculty and students.

This early installation of a passenger elevator marked an important milestone in the history of vertical transportation on college and university campuses, and it paved the way for the adoption of elevators in other educational institutions as they expanded in size and height over time.

Department of Facilities

The History of Elevators

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Memorial Church Sunday Service

Hillsdale College | The Theological–Political Problem and the American Founding | Glenn Ellmers

From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790

The Best Breakdown of America You’ve Never Heard: Richard Miniter

In Federalist No. 2, John Jay [1764 Graduate of King’s College; now Columbia University] argues that a strong union under the Constitution will promote peace and prosperity, which are conducive to the spread of religion and morality:

“Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs… These considerations, and many others that might be mentioned, prove, and experience confirms it, that artificial distinctions and separations of [America’s] land are essentially unnatural; and that they may be eradicated and extirpated by the united and advisable efforts of individuals and communities…”

The Federalist Papers discuss themes of morality, social order, and the importance of a cohesive society, they do not explicitly emphasize the importance of Christian faith to the American constitutional republic. The authors generally focused on principles of governance, political theory, and the structure of the proposed Constitution.

“The experience of the sacred is a universal phenomenon,

found in all human societies, however primitive or complex.”

— 1957 Mircea Eliade (‘The Sacred and the Profane’)

Other Campus Worship Livestreams

Harvard’s Memorial Chapel, also known as Memorial Church, was designed by the architectural firm Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott. The church was dedicated on Armistice Day, November 11, 1932, as a memorial to Harvard alumni who died in World War I.

Sunday Service Announcements and Music Notes

Annenberg Hall

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Readings / The Education of Henry Adams

Readings / The Administrative State

John Harvard, the namesake of Harvard University, was a 17th-century English minister lived on campus from 1607 – 1638 and conformed to Puritan ideal of dedicating Sundays to worship, prayer, and rest.

Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences: Irish Studies

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Facilities Management | A Look At BC Master Planning: Past, Present, And Future

Inside Gasson Tower

.@BC_CSON has launched a master’s degree in nurse-midwifery, which aims to address the crisis of maternal mortality and the shortage of maternal health care workers.https://t.co/QGb3FRpR3B

— Boston College (@BostonCollege) March 13, 2025