As her elder daughters prepared for school last month, for example, Ms. Nielson orchestrated a back-to-school feast at home.
Erasmus never had Hegius as a teacher, since the headmaster taught only the boys in the most advanced form; but he must have heard him lecture to the entire school on feast days, and he vividly remembered a lecture given by Hegius' friend Rudolf Agricola, the first significant humanist active in the Netherlands, who had spent many years studying in Italy.
One of the more amusing examples of this is Anthony Goicolea's "Feastlings" (2001), a digitally manipulated tableau of half a dozen boys in high school uniforms feasting raucously at a suburban dining table.
The theological assumption is that the entire liturgy is both a school and the feast of faith: in the same act, believers both learn and celebrate the transgenerational faith of the Church into which they grow.
It took 20 years and the installation of a whole new platform, but in 2013, 150 citizens celebrated Hope's new stop-status by riding the train to Texarkana and then coming back (by school bus) to feast on eggs, grits and bacon.The town now has a new concert venue, and tries to lure sports events to its parks.
How do law schools depict a feast amid so much famine?
The ebook takes a satirical look at the coalition and its politics, presented in brief sketches which poke snarky fun at such absurd but apparently quite true facts as that education minister Michael Gove had a brief TV career alongside David Baddiel and once played a chaplain in boarding-school comedy "A Feast After Midnight".
What McCullough's Americans took home with them were less sentimental educations than artistic and intellectual ones; the finishing school and the movable feast came later.
On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the school put on a holiday feast and a talent show.
Alumni of the program, like me, are invited to join the current batch of recent high school graduates for a festive feast and mini-reunion.
Bouillabaisse was served at the feast for the schools in the Triwizard Tournament.
