"O Beautiful for . . . Purple Mountain Majesties" the Hymn Society Gathers in Colorado
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Abstract
Those familiar words from the beloved hymn America the beautiful were written in 1893, by young Wellesley College English professor Katherine Lee Bates. She was teaching a three-week summer course at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, a relatively young city founded in 1871 on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and in the shadow of Pike's Peak. On the train trip west from Boston, Bates had marveled at the contrasts in beauty presented by the American landscape from Niagara Falls and the Chicago World's Fair to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. During her stay in Colorado, Bates spent her free time engaged in the typical activities of a tourist, taking in such sights as the Garden of the Gods, the Royal Gorge, and the Cripple Creek mining community. highlight of her stay, however, was an excursion to the summit of Pike's Peak; at 14,110 feet it is not the highest peak in Colorado, but certainly the most famous. It was there on the pinnacle of Pike's Peak, as she viewed the sweeping plains to the east and the magnificent mountains to the west, that such phrases as spacious skies, amber waves of grain, and, of course, purple mountain majesties, began to take shape in her mind. She pulled out her notebook to jot down verses that later became America the beautiful. Now, some 118 years later, Hymn Society in the United States and Canada invites all lovers of hymnody to share in Bates's mountaintop experience by attending the 2011 conference, from July 17-21 at Colorado College, where breathtaking views of Pike's Peak await from every vantage point on campus. exceptional natural beauty of Colorado will provide an ideal setting for exploring the conference theme Touch the Earth Lightly. As always, the conference will feature inspiring and informative plenary presentations and hymn festivals, interspersed with a wide variety of sectional options. This year our free afternoon of sightseeing will conclude with an evening dinner and hymn festival in Denver. With so much to see and do in the vicinity before and after the conference, Colorado promises to be an extraordinary site for Hymn Society's first conference in the Rocky Mountain region. Colorado At an elevation of 6,035 feet above sea level, Colorado is just sixty-one miles south of Denver. With some 400,000 residents, The Springs is the second most populous city in Colorado. city was founded five years before Colorado became a state, in 1871. Civil War General William Jackson Palmer had in mind a high-quality resort and alcoholfree community - in contrast with the many saloons of the adjacent frontier town, Colorado City. (In fact, Colorado remained dry until the end of Prohibition in 1933.) With Pike's Peak as a backdrop, the city soon fulfilled its promise as one of the late nineteenth century's most popular tourist destinations, especially after the opening of the impressive Antlers Hotel in 1873 and the simultaneous founding of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad - also an enterprise of General Palmer. Colorado developed even more quickly after Winfield Scott Stratton's discovery of gold near Cripple Creek ignited the 1891 Colorado Gold Rush. After making his fortune, Scott became one of the city's leading benefactors by donating land for city hall, the post office, the courthouse (now the Pioneer Museum), and a park, as well as funding an expansion of the city's trolley car system and the construction of a home for orphans and the elderly. In the years that followed, Spencer Penrose similarly drew on the wealth he acquired in the Cripple Creek Gold Rush to become a generous contributor to the community as financier for the construction of the luxurious Broadmoor Hotel, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, the Pike's Peak Highway, and the medical establishment now known as Penrose-St. Francis Health Services. In the early twentieth century, Colorado continued to flourish as a vacation mecca and, along with Denver, became a recuperative center for tuberculosis patients. …
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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